Bangladesh has requested India to supply AstraZeneca vaccine as the stock of available vaccine will run out soon, affecting the inoculation campaign in the country.

Twenty-three people, who illegally entered Bangladesh through Dahagram land port in Lalmonirhat district, have been detained and put in mandatory 14-day quarantine at Dahagram Hospital.

More than 50 people were missing on Tuesday (May 18) when their boat sank after leaving Libya heading to Europe, Tunisia's Defence Ministry said, with 33 others rescued.

At least 72 more Bangladeshis, who were stuck in India, returned home through the Gede-Darshana border in Chuadanga today.

A Spanish study on mixing COVID-19 vaccines has found that giving a dose of Pfizer's drug to people who already received a first shot of AstraZeneca vaccine is highly safe and effective, preliminary results showed on Tuesday.

A delegation of Jatiya Press Club led by President Farida Yasmin and General Secretary Ilyas Khan, along with Rozina Islam's brother Md Selim, met Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal over the senior reporter's arrest today.

At least 11 people were killed in lightning strikes in Netrakona, Faridpur and Manikganj of the country today.

A Bangladeshi-born Finnish citizen, Dr Mojibur Doftori, has been fielded as a candidate for Helsinki City Council 2021 Election by the Green Party. As he is the only Bangladeshi-origin candidate in the capital city nominated by a major party, there is much enthusiasm among the local Bangladeshi community. The election will be held on 13 June.

A section of journalists who are observing a sit-in at Shahbagh Police Station are demanding voluntary imprisonment in protest of the arrest of Prothom Alo Senior Correspondent Rozina Islam after she was confined at the Secretariat yesterday for five hours.

More than 52,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli air strikes that have destroyed or badly damaged nearly 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip, the UN aid agency said on Tuesday.

The highly contagious Indian variant of Covid-19 has been detected in samples of three more Bangladeshis, who returned from India, as per the Genome Center of Jashore University of Science and Technology.

Prothom Alo Senior Correspondent Rozina Islam was taken to Kashimpur Women's Central Jail in Gazipur from Dhaka this afternoon.

Bangladesh has requested Canada to provide two million shots of AstraZeneca vaccine on an emergency basis for inoculating people with the second dose, as the prospect of getting vaccines from India is now very low.

Bangladesh today sent medicine, injections and other medical supplies worth Tk 20 crore to India through Benapole land port this afternoon as support during the neighbouring country's devastating Covid-19 situation.

Demanding withdrawal of the case filed against Prothom Alo’s senior reporter Rozina Islam and her immediate release, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “We have been saying for a long time that people have no right in this country. Citizens, politicians or journalists don’t have any rights in what this government calls democracy.”

Bangladesh Public Service Commission today postponed the viva exam for the 42nd (Special) Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dozens of air strikes pounded Gaza today even as US President Joe Biden expressed support for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports Al Jazeera.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8:00am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A case has been filed against Bangla daily Prothom Alo Senior Reporter Rozina Islam under the Official Secrets Act.

Journalists have gone to Shahbagh Police Station to protest the confinement of Bangla daily Prothom Alo's Senior Reporter Rozina Islam at the Secretariat and her subsequent handover to the police station.