Britain yesterday put the biggest private health companies on high alert to deliver crucial treatments should Omicron overwhelm National Health Service hospitals in England.

A Dinajpur court yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment and fined Tk 20,000 for abducting and attempting to kill a five-year-old girl after rape in Parbatipur Upazila of Dinajpur in 2016.

Jatiya Party (Manju) yesterday said the new election commission should be formed through the enactment of a law in line with the constitution and not through search committee.

Six people have been killed in two road accidents in Kushtia over the last two days.

Deputy Commissioner of Benapole Customs House Md Abdul Qaiyum has filed a GD with Benapole Port Police Station, seeking protection.

While authorities have taken an initiative to inoculate students of Chattogram, health guidelines are barely being followed during the vaccination campaign. Students and their guardians crowded the inoculation centres yesterday, with no social distancing in sight.

The nation yesterday observed the historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a befitting manner.

BNP yesterday alleged that the ongoing dialogue at Bangabhaban is nothing but a mockery before  formation of the Election Commission (EC).

While it’s usual for the capital’s streets to see increased traffic on weekday mornings, yesterday’s gridlock was still something out of the ordinary.

On Saturday midnight, passengers of  Surovi -9 launch  on the Dhaka-Barishal route panicked as smoke started emanating from its engine room.

At a time when even reputed college and universities don’t always have libraries, a family of advocates set up a three-storey library at a remote area in Barlekha upazila, some 86 kilometres away from Moulvibazar district town.

“Remove water, save people” was the slogan that around a thousand residents of a waterlogged Bhabadah were heard chanting while besieging the deputy commissioner’s office in Jashore yesterday.

Unknown miscreants have grabbed around 800 decimal (8 acres) of mangrove forest land, felling thousands of trees, in Kosturighat area along Bakkhali River in Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

BNP yesterday alleged that the Digital Security Act (DSA) is being used against opposition leaders, activists and dissidents as a tool of repression.

Expressing disappointment over the long delay in case disposal and huge backlog of pending cases, Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said sometimes around 60 years’ time is needed for final disposal of a civil case at present.

Three madrasa students were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a human haulier and a truck in Fakirhat area early yesterday.

As the government fails to execute the ban on three-wheelers on highways and formulate regulatory guidelines, the illegal vehicles continue to take more lives.

Along with winter come the joys, colours and flavours of winter vegetables. Even amid the concrete jungle of the capital, this time of the year sees small open

Polling officials made a mess of counting ballots at a voting centre in Shariatpur’s Naria upazila during the fifth phase of the union parishad polls on Wednesday, raising questions about the credibility of the election results.

Once aptly named for its beauty, the Sundari canal at Karatia in Tangail Sadar upazila has now lost its beauty, after bearing witness to mindless pollution and widespread encroachment.