Failing to get expected job even after paying bribe, a jobseeker along with three others killed a woman at Mushuriapara village in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Thursday.

“I used to lead huge congregations during Friday’s Jummah prayers, and ministers, MPs, dignitaries and devotees of various classes and professions; people of Arabic, Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani and other origins stood behind me. I feel anxious when I remember losing that prestige as an expatriate imam.”

A High Court bench today refused to entertain a writ petition that sought its directive on the government to formulate comprehensive national short, mid- and long-term plan in order to prevent spread of Covid-19 and to vaccinate all vulnerable citizens -- irrespective of age.

Police have sought a 24-day remand for Mamunul Haque, the joint secretary general of the recently dissolved committee of Hefajat-e-Islam, and also prayed to a Narayanganj court to show him arrested in three cases filed with Sonargaon Police Station.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today reaffirmed that the government will procure vaccines at any cost to protect people from Covid-19.

Covid-19 claimed 2,404 lives in Bangladesh in April -- the cruellest month for the country since the outbreak last year.

Five persons, including two children, were killed as a truck hit a CNG-run autorickshaw on Sylhet-Tamabil highway this morning.

The economic shock induced by the pandemic has pushed 2.45 crore people into poverty in one year. The Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and the Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) run this survey and found that the number of new poor people is higher in urban areas than in rural areas.

ABM Aminul Islam Liton, Jamalpur correspondent of The Daily Star, died of brain stroke at the intensive care unit of a hospital in Delhi this morning, family sources said quoting doctors. He was 52.

Criminal Investigation Department arrested Hefajat-e-Islam leader Junayed Al Quasemi from Brahmanbaria this morning.

Around 340 doves and 60 pigeons died after consuming poison-laced bird food in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat.

The government is considering the resumption of public transport services across the country ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

Authorities have designated 16 establishments in Jashore city to quarantine India-returnees arriving through Benapole land port.

Three vegetable traders were killed and three others were injured when they fell from a pick-up van after it was hit by a truck on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj early today.

The historic May Day is being observed today as the world is battling the coronavirus pandemic which has rendered millions of workers jobless across countries in recent months.

Covid-19 tsunami is raging in India. Patients are seen waiting for a bed outside hospitals. More than two lakh people have already lost their lives.

Eighty-one eminent citizens today urged the Chinese government to bring to book Chinese companies involved with SS Power I Plant in Chattogram's Banshkhali upazila, where seven workers were killed in police firing during a protest on April 17.

Police have arrested five more people in the last 24 hours from different parts of Brahmanbaria in connection with the violence and arson carried out by Hefajat-e-Islam activists last month.

The Government of Bangladesh has appointed three Bangladeshi individuals to the prestigious Panels for Arbitrators and Conciliators of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Leader of the Opposition in parliament Raushan Ershad was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka last night.