The High Court today upheld a lower court order that granted bail to JMI Hospital Requisite Manufacturing Ltd's Chairman Abdur Razzak in a case filed over supplying fake N95 masks for the use of healthcare professionals.

Dhaka, one the most polluted cities in the world, ranked 3rd worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) this afternoon.

Those with weaker immunity or who are on a medicine that affects their immune system and people with allergies have been advised against taking the Covaxin Covid-19 shot, said maker of the vaccine Bharat Biotech.

Criminal Investigation Department arrested the driver of Ajmeri Glory Paribahan that hit and ran over a couple in Dhaka’s Airport area yesterday.

A bill titled “The Civil Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2021” was placed in parliament today, aiming to raise the pecuniary jurisdiction of lower court judges to dispose of civil cases.

A bill titled “Sheikh Hasina Medical University, Khulna Bill, 2021” has been placed in parliament to set up a medical university in Khulna division, aiming to expand the facilities for medical education, research and healthcare services in the region.

Rights organisations -- Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) -- have demanded justice for 14-year-old Lakingme Chakma who was abducted, converted and married off to one of her abductors, and eventually murdered in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar last year.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad has expressed grave concern and resentment over the torture of a housewife after an attempt to rape her in Noakhali's Hatiya upazila and circulation of the footage of the incident on social media.

A person was killed and 15 were injured as a bus hit an auto-rickshaw on Hemayetpur-Singair-Manikganj regional highway this morning.

A parliamentary body today finalised three bills to publish the results of the HSC and equivalent examinations by January 28.

Previous infection with the coronavirus may offer less protection against the new variant first identified in South Africa, scientists said on Monday, although they hope that vaccines will still work.

The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday said the global lender needed more resources to help heavily indebted countries, citing a highly uncertain global economic outlook and a growing divergence between rich and poor countries.

US President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the US without legal status, a massive reversal from the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies.

Hotels and resorts have seen a surge in tourist numbers in the last couple of months as young people are leading the recovery of an industry that had hit rock bottom at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

A High Court bench today withdrew its bail order to banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activist Md Redwanul Huq alias Redwan in two separate bomb blast cases in which he was sentenced to life in 2005.

The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers’ profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against Covid-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and charging that most vaccine makers have targeted locations where “profits are highest.”

Ashikur Rahman Rohit, an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Chattogram, was stabbed to death over the brick-sand trade and not elections, said police.

Two persons have died after they were administered Covid-19 vaccines on the first day of the vaccination drive across India but at least one of the deaths is not connected to the vaccination according to the post mortem report, India’s Health Ministry said tonight.

Police arrested suspended sub-inspector Rukon Uddin Bhuiyan of the Armed Police Battalion in Sylhet and four others while they were selling yaba in Sylhet city this afternoon.

A case has been filed over explosion of crude bombs targeting the car of independent mayor candidate Abul Bashar Chokdar in Bhedarganj municipality in Shariatpur last night.