The number of Covid-19 deaths continued to rise as the health directorate reported 112 deaths in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday -- the second highest daily toll recorded in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the problems over securing Covid vaccines have been resolved and her government will carry out a massive vaccination campaign across the country once more jabs arrive next month.

Anyone who goes outdoors without an urgent cause will face severe punishment during the seven-day lockdown starting tomorrow.

The authorities of Comilla University have decided to take departmental action against a teacher who pointed out an anomaly in the 2019-2020 admission process because they found him guilty of leaking the information to the media.

The parliament yesterday passed the next fiscal year’s tax measures that met critics and advocates of the provision to whiten black money in the middle.

When Khadiza Khatun took her Covid-infected grandmother to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday night, she never imagined that she was going to experience such a shock.

Good news for Bangladeshi migrant workers!

Another 83 Bangladeshis were rescued in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast on Sunday when they were trying to go to Europe across the sea illegally.

The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.8 years in 2020 during the outbreak of coronavirus from 72.6 years in 2019, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Tofail Ahmed, senior lawmaker from the ruling Awami League, and Kazi Firoz Rashid, an MP from the Jatiya Party, expressed frustration in parliament yesterday, saying that bureaucrats were being given various important responsibilities by ignoring the politicians.

Abul Kashem, 45, used to drive buses owned by others for 25 years and dreamed of one day owning his own bus.

Accumulated gas was behind the massive explosion at the ground floor of a three-storey building in the capital’s Moghbazar on Sunday evening, said officials and experts.

Leaky gas pipes were the fourth most common cause of fires reported last year, according to Fire Service and Civil Defence data.

Bangladesh reported 8,364 new Covid-19 infections in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday, a record high number of daily infections since the confirmation of its first cases on March 8 last year.

The government plans to go all out to make sure that people stay at home during the “strict lockdown” to be enforced from Thursday to stem the surge in Covid deaths and infections.

Brig Gen Md Sazzad Hussain, director general of Fire Service and Civil Defence, said they are primarily suspecting that the explosion took place from accumulation of gas from a leakage.

When the cabinet division decided late on Saturday evening that the nationwide “total and complete” lockdown would be postponed from June 28 to July 1, and there would be a limited-scale or partial countrywide lockdown in the interim period, it left many asking what a “limited-scale” lockdown even meant.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called for cooperation from all as she reiterated her government’s resolve to overcome the coronavirus pandemic.

Although road conditions under Roads and Highways Department network have improved a little compared to the last year, over 3,000km surveyed roads -- 16.26 percent -- are still in “poor, bad or very bad” condition, says an RHD survey.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen expressed scepticism about procuring vaccines smoothly saying bilateral cooperation is not the only deciding factor and that issues of global politics are at play.