Dr Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, today said most of the new Covid-19 infected patients are young while maximum patients are needing ICU support.

18 die, 1159 infected, 1385 recover in 24 hours.

India’s Election Commission today ruled out any attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram assembly constituency where she is in fray for the coming polls, sources in the polls body said today.

Four officials of Kushtia Palli Bidyut Samiti were suspended over the death of a lineman, who died of electrocution while working on an electric pole.

Myanmar security forces opened fire on anti-coup protesters in the commercial capital Yangon on Sunday, and at least three people were killed, witnesses and domestic media said.

A court in Khulna today again rejected the bail petition of leftist leader Ruhul Amin in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

A Dhaka court today asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to probe the case filed over torture of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore in police custody.

Rohingya criminals have shot a man dead from the same community, over establishing supremacy between groups, in a refugee camp at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar.

Amid a third wave of the coronavirus that is gripping Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab, and the northern part of the country, Pakistani health and administrative authorities have imposed a partial lockdown in affected areas.

The Supreme Court upheld a High Court directive today that asked government authorities to shut down all brick kilns without valid licenses in Chattogram.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked all concerned at Biman Bangladesh Airlines to take good care of all the aircraft in its fleet and ensure better passenger service.

The High Court today observed that all educational institutions, including madrasas, have to conduct academic activities in line with the constitution and relevant laws.

Three adolescents, aged 12 to 13, were sued on charge of attempt to rape a five-year-old in Manirampur upazila of Jashore.

Six workers, including three Chinese men, sustained injuries after a part of launching girder of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project collapsed near Dhaka airport this morning.

Nizam Uddin Hazari, lawmaker of Feni-2 constituency, his wife and daughter have tested positive for coronavirus.

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Monirul Islam, also chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit under Dhaka Metropolitan Police, has been made Additional Inspector General of Police (current charge) of the Special Branch.

British Airways’s new boss said vaccinated people should be allowed to travel without restriction and non-vaccinated people with a negative COVID-19 test, as he set out his ideas for a travel restart a month before the UK government finalises its plans.

Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez as he visited an area devastated by forest fires, TV footage showed.

An An-26 military aircraft flying from the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, crashed while landing in Almaty on Saturday, killing four of six people on board, the Central Asian nation’s emergencies ministry said.

Enough time has finally passed for us to collectively reflect on how much, and in what ways, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our usual lives. Students, in particular, have encountered a drastic shift in how they experience their education—and as a result, the internet.