Dhaka Medical College authorities yesterday cleared the confusion about their request for Tk 20 crore from the government for food and accommodation of their healthcare workers, just a couple of days after the prime minister expressed doubt in this regard.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has issued an open call to the people of all strata to sign a pledge declaring the Covid-19 vaccine to be a common good.

The country yesterday observed the fourth anniversary of militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital’s Gulshan, paying tribute to the victims in the gruesome attack.

Forty-one people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 2:30pm yesterday, said the Directorate General of Health Services.

With the Covid-19 pandemic wrecking lives and livelihoods, the government has renewed its focus and stepped up thrust on boosting production of Aus and Aman rice to ensure adequate availability of staple food in the country and slash dependence on the global market.

He was an editor’s dream of an investor. But he turned out to be so much more. Yes, Matiur Rahman and I run the two papers -- Prothom Alo and The Daily Star respectively -- but it was he who made them happen, with his principles, integrity, courage, steadfastness, strength of character, and unswerving faith in independent media without which, he intuitively knew, that democracy could not flourish.

He was a paragon of business ethics.

Latifur Rahman has been laid to rest at the capital’s Banani Graveyard.

A portion of the First Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, also known as Postogola Bridge, was damaged as the crew of a BIWTA salvage ship did not lower the crane installed on it, according to Roads and Highways Department.

The Jatiya Sangsad yesterday passed the Tk 568,000-crore national budget for fiscal 2020-21, which, according to experts, may prove difficult to implement amid the coronavirus pandemic.

It was a quiet Friday evening at the Holey Artisan Bakery towards the end of Ramadan in 2016.

The Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) yesterday issued a statement condemning the recent spate of cases and arrests of editors, journalists, writers, university teachers under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for expressing critical views about mismanagement in dealing with Covid-19.

The authorities yesterday reported 64 more Covid-19 deaths, the highest in a single day, and 3,682 new cases of infection.

A little over two months ago, the chief of the country’s health directorate in an interview with an Indian magazine narrated Bangladesh government’s position on Covid-19 testing, saying the tests were free of costs.

Around 12 hours after a launch capsized in the Buriganga river on Monday, authorities started to rescue the vessel when a man swam out alive, raising more questions than could be answered.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday came under fire in parliament from opposition BNP and Jatiya Party MPs due to his ministry’s alleged failure to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and ensure treatment and testing facilities to the coronavirus infected people.

Barishal division’s only RT-PCR lab, set up at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College, is struggling to examine samples, as the demand for Covid-19 tests rises.

Officials yesterday reported an all-time daily high of 4,014 coronavirus infections.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not even close to being over, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing yesterday.

Hundreds of jute mill workers yesterday took to the streets in Dhaka, Khulna and Chattogram, protesting the government decision to shut all state-run jute mills and lay off 25,000 workers.