Police in the Indian capital arrested a man on Tuesday accused of leading a group of farmers who clashed with police and stormed the historic Red Fort last month during the worst day of violence in months of protests against agriculture reforms.

Admission seekers can apply for entry tests for the 2020-21 academic session at Rajshahi University through online from March 7, said a press release from the university’s public relations office today.

The government will receive a total of 1.31 lakh shots of Covid-19 vaccines under the COVAX facility by the end of this month, health secretary Abdul Mannan said today.

A police constable was stabbed and at least two other people sustained bullet injuries during a clash between two transport owners’ groups on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Bogura this morning.

Following a case filed by her stepdaughter, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested Anju Kapoor from Dhaka’s Gulshan area this morning on charges of “misappropriating” Tk 1.40 crore. Sheikh Omar Faruque, additional deputy inspector general of CID (Dhaka Metro) confirmed the development to The Daily Star.

Cleaners have threatened to stop waste collection from households in Dhaka North City Corporation area if their demands are not met within the next seven days.

A suspected drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early today, BGB said.

A Cumilla court today placed Cumilla City Corporation’s ward 23 councillor on a three-day remand in a case filed over murder of a local businessman last year.

All teachers of government primary schools will be inoculated within a week, said State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Zakir Hossain.

India’s Supreme Court today stayed arrest of opposition Congress Party lawmaker Shashi Tharoor and six journalists. The court order was in connection with FIRs lodged against them for their alleged “misleading” tweets regarding farmers’ tractor rally violence in New Delhi on Republic Day.

The death count in the Uttarakhand glacier disaster rose to 28 today with the recovery of two more bodies from Chamoli district, reports our New Delhi correspondent quoting officials of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has decided to issue permits for as many as 4,000 new CNG-run auto-rickshaws in Chattogram once it completes scrapping an equal number of old three-wheeler public transport vehicles that provide last-mile connectivity in the port city.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said that the emergence of new coronavirus variants has raised major questions about the efficacy of existing Covid-19 vaccines.

Auto sales in China, the world’s biggest market, surged in January with a 30 percent jump from the same month a year earlier, the tenth month of gains, as China continued to lead the global automobile industry’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

New Zealand is suspending all high-level contact with Myanmar and imposing a travel ban on its military leaders following last week’s coup, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday.

The pandemic is transforming communities and accelerating digitalization and the technology adoption across the nation. Telenor Research has recently identified five different technology trends that will shape 2021, Grameenphone recently unveiled the research findings through an interactive event at GP House on February 08, 2021.

Seoul to test pets for free if they come into contact with infected humans and show symptoms.

North South University, one of the leading and number one ranked first private universities in Bangladesh, are spearheading a number of activities to ameliorate the Covid-19 situation such as the ones listed below:

Two cases have been filed over yesterday’s clashes between supporters of two mayoral candidates of Tangail's Gopalpur municipality elections that left one person dead and several others injured.

A coronavirus variant first identified in Britain is rapidly spreading in the United States, threatening to bring a surge of new cases as it doubles roughly every 10 days, according to a new study.