Investigators at the icddr,b said specific doses of the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin significantly reduce the viral load of Covid-19 if administered during the first five days of infection.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today summoned the then director general of the Directorate of Primary Education Dr Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal and four other government officials for not recruiting a qualified candidate to the post of primary school teacher.

Local administration has seized 20 sacks full of 400kg of wheat seeds allocated for flood-affected farmers in Raumari upazila of Kurigram.

Education Minister Dipu Moni has tested positive for coronavirus.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today pressed charges against expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a case filed for siphoning off around Tk 222 crore and channelling it to casinos in Singapore and Malaysia between 2011 and 2018.

The High Court today directed the authorities concerned of the government to immediately take necessary steps to protect sculptures and murals of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman across the country.

Amid threats from anti- sculpture protesters, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today vowed to continue work of the under-construction Bangabandhu sculptures.

A Dhaka court today directed the deputy inspector general of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to conduct investigation into the two cases filed against Hefajat-e-Islam Ameer Junayed Babunagari and two others for their "disparaging" comments on sculptures.

Ferry services on the key Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed nine hours after suspension due to dense fog.

Eight inmates, aged between 14-17, of Jashore Child Development Centre fled from the establishment early today, authorities claimed.

An auto-rickshaw driver died after being trampled by a herd of elephants at Bazalia union of Chattogram’s Satkania upazila yesterday evening.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a madrasa student from a spot adjacent to his institution in Morrelganj upazila of the district.

Two decades ago, Char Mantala in Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila emerged from the riverbed of Brahmaputra but it went into the river in the last four months, leaving the residents in utter despair.

Farmers in the char areas of the Jamuna river in Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila are passing busy time cultivating peanuts on the raised lands after receding of floodwater.

The Election Commission today cancelled the results of the chairman’s post of Faridpur’s Charbhadrasan upazila parishad by-polls as its probe committee found “irregularities” in the election.

A parliamentary body today asked the authorities concerned to identify all persons and organisations who have illegally grabbed rivers across the country and take legal action against them through a consultation group.

The finance division issued a directive asking all ministries, subordinate departments and government agencies to not outsource recruitment of employees in the grade 11-20 through public or private universities.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) will sit with vice chancellors of all public universities next Sunday to take a decision about the latter’s demand for holding semester exams for final year students.

A tribunal in Dhaka today asked defence lawyers for the 22 accused in Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case to submit the High Court order on transfer of the tribunal by December 22.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said stern actions will be taken against those who vandalised an under-construction sculpture of Bangabandhu in Kushtia.