Bangladesh were unable to execute the perfect game as Sri Lanka bounced back from two defeats with a convincing 97-run win in the third and final ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Around 40,000 expatriate workers waiting to go to Saudi Arabia in the next one and a half months could have saved almost Tk 260 crore in hotel expenses had the government prioritised inoculating them against Covid-19.

The government plans to lower the age limit for Covid-19 vaccination as it wants to inoculate students aged above 18 and take them back to classrooms by reopening universities.

For the past five years at least, The Daily Star has been documenting little Adiba Islam Hridi on the streets and in conference rooms, holding a photo of her missing father Parvez Hossain.

Two of the Bangladeshis arrested in India on charges of raping and assaulting a woman were shot in the leg during what Indian officials said was their attempt to flee yesterday.

Narcotics smugglers have long been trying to create a market for the hallucinogenic drug called LSD in Bangladesh, targeting college and university students as consumers.

At least two dozen river dredging and embankment protection projects aimed at combating floods and erosion across the country are set to miss the deadline of this June due to fund crunch, red tape, and mistakes in assessments.

There is no going back to normal for thousands of residents of the coastal region as tidal surges caused by cyclone Yaas left a trail of destruction on their houses, farms, fisheries and even roads.

After at least 1,000 migrants missed their flights to Saudi Arabia failing to book or pay for their mandatory quarantine in hotels, Bangladesh yesterday decided to help KSA-bound migrants with hotel bookings and subsidy.

Confusion has arisen over the price of Sinopharm shots as the government closes in on the vaccine purchase from China in a desperate effort to keep the inoculation campaign rolling.

Health officials yesterday said black fungus infection is not rare and it has treatment, but there is widespread misconception about it.

Bangladeshi migrants trying to go to Saudi Arabia have found themselves in more trouble as airlines are now saying that hotel bookings for the seven-day on-arrival institutional quarantine must be done by passengers.

The government’s interest burden is set to get heavier in the incoming fiscal year, thanks to its inability to better choose from its financing options.

A mob looted and vandalised around 50 shops and malls owned by Bangladeshis in Brandfort of Free State province in South Africa on Tuesday.

The government has extended the closure of educational institutions till June 12, saying the reopening is subject to the drop in Covid infection rate below 5 percent and inoculation of university students.

Storm surges inundated dozens of villages in eastern India yesterday after a powerful cyclone moved inland from the Bay of Bengal, damaging thousands of mud homes in two coastal states and killing at least two people, officials said.

Four children drowned in tidal water and a rickshaw-puller was crushed under a tree in Barishal division, while low-lying regions in the country were inundated after cyclone Yaas made landfall yesterday noon on the Odisha-West Bengal coast in India.

In a first for Bangladesh, the country has extended a lifeline of sorts to the beleaguered Sri Lankan economy, offering to top up the island nation’s depleting foreign reserves by as much as $500 million.

Houses, crop fields, and structures in over 200 villages in Barguna, Patuakhali, Khulna, Satkhira and Noakhali have been inundated as embankments breached due to storm surges caused by cyclone Yaas.

Around 10,000 Bangladeshis in South Africa are now living in fear after several hundred shops of expatriates were vandalised, torched, and looted by mobs in Free State’s Bloemfontein last week.