The walls scorched black. A thin film of soot covering the burnt-out pillars and roofs. A smell of burnt remnants still wafting through the air around it.

As bodies after bodies were wheeled into Dhaka Medical College’s morgue on February 21 last year, there was no dearth of offers of help.

The High Court yesterday directed authorities concerned of the government to set up breastfeeding and baby care corners at all mills and factories, including the garments factories, across the country.

The government has decided to expand the airport in Saidpur for Nepali flights to improve connectivity, trade and tourism with the South Asian Himalayan nation.

Government officials should act based on facts and avoid using force in handling suspected coronavirus patients so that people don’t panic, IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said yesterday.

The death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose again yesterday but Chinese and international health officials sought to calm global nerves, citing a study showing most cases are mild and warning against excessive measures to contain the epidemic.

On an average, 17 women and children were allegedly raped each day last year, shows data based on cases filed with police stations across the country.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday again sought bail from the High Court on health grounds. She wants to have treatment abroad.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there was nothing to panic about coronavirus fallout as the country was taking steps to import raw materials from markets other than China.

As per a masterplan for saving rivers in and around Dhaka and Chattogram cities, the government from January 2026 would start relocating factories that discharge liquid waste to a special zone.

Around midnight on January 22, the doorbell rang at Mehedy Sheikh’s flat at the capital’s Kalachandpur in Gulshan.

More than 300 Americans rescued from a cruise ship quarantined off Japan because of the new coronavirus arrived back in the US yesterday to begin a further two-week period of medical seclusion, as the epidemic claimed more lives in China to push the death toll above 1,700.

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has proposed hiking water prices by 80 percent for residential and commercial uses.

Defaulted loans crept up last year despite the government’s attempts to subdue them -- by hook or by crook.

The Supreme Court yesterday said the High Court cannot deliver any verdict with inexecutable directives.

Mentioning that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has not yet appealed for parole, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said the government would consider it if she admitted guilt and apologised.

The Department of Environment yesterday disconnected utility connections of 23 dyeing factories and steel re-rolling mills in the capital’s Kadamtali and Shyampur for polluting the Buriganga river and the air.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved a masterplan to free all major rivers in and around Dhaka and Chattogram cities from encroachment and pollution by 2030.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader will ask the ACC to investigate the allegations of human trafficking against Laxmipur-2 MP Quazi Shaheed Islam alias Papul.

A government probe committee has found five officials of National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital to have been negligent in preserving and protecting hospital equipment, including intensive care unit ventilators, said a report submitted to the High Court yesterday.