Prof Niaz Ahmed Khan joined as the pro-vice chancellor of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) yesterday.

A row has been created after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) implicated two tax officials of Chattogram in the charge sheet of a case filed against a sub-inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and his wife for amassing wealth worth Tk 1.38 crore from unknown sources.

The UN Refugee Agency has made urgent calls across the region to offer refuge and protection to all those fleeing Myanmar for safety amid escalating violence.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad through its two-day National Council Meeting 2021 called for women’s economic, political, and social empowerment and prevention of gender-based violence and demanded the necessary law reformations.

Against the backdrop of increasing Covid-19 cases, Chattogram district administration has banned all sorts of public gatherings in the city until April 14.

Dhaka wants seamless multi-modal connectivity and enhanced trade and investment in the BIMSTEC region.

Two prosecution witnesses, including a brother of Army chief Gen Aziz Ahmed, yesterday gave their depositions before a Dhaka tribunal in the case filed over the murder of Sayeed Ahmed Tipu, after around ten years.

Dipthandu Dip Roy Bablu’s family was thrown into uncertainty when his young son was diagnosed with autism. Bablu was at his wit’s end to figure out how he would get treatment for the young Debabrata Roy in Kusumbagh area of Moulvibazar sadar upazila.

In addition to bus capacity being slashed to half, ride-sharing using motorcycles was banned beginning yesterday, leaving commuters in the capital in despair.

Recently, there’s a new Ethereum blockchain-based unit of data based around digital art and other collectables. Called Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), some of these tokens are being sold for as high as 69 million US dollars. This has led many to claim NFT’s as the digital answer to collectables, while sceptics think it a fad that will soon die out.

Electric devices have been banned during tomorrow's admission test for the MBBS courses at public and private medical colleges.

Chattogram Zoo has been declared closed for two weeks from today due to a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases in the port city.

Two UK expatriates who were on mandatory institutional quarantine at Hotel Star Pacific in Sylhet city ‘forcibly’ went out on Tuesday morning.

A total of 23 passengers, who returned to Bangladesh from different European countries including the UK, were put under 14-day institutional quarantine at different government approved hotels in eight hours since early yesterday.

Ratna Raha, a retired schoolteacher, stepped out of her home at Chawkbazar’s KB Aman Ali Road yesterday morning. She needed to make a trip to Teribazar area for some emergency shopping.

Policy and action to tackle any public health emergency like Covid-19 pandemic are only as effective as the science and data they are based on, US Ambassador Earl R Miller said.

Md Abul Hossain, who had erected with others the first-ever Shaheed Minar in Rajshahi on the night of February 21, 1952, passed away yesterday.

Seven people were killed and another was injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

The 12th session of the current 11th Parliament may have only three working days (sittings) considering worsening Covid-19 situation across the country, sources at the parliament secretariat said.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday expressed concerns over the rapid surge of Covid-19 cases, saying that coronavirus infection rate is growing as the health guidelines are not maintained properly.