Bangladesh plans to redesign its incentive package to draw foreign direct investments (FDI) to negate the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the national economy, keeping an extra eye out on prospective sources in the South-East, officials said.

While airlifting a launch around twelve hours after it capsized on the Buriganga river, rescue workers recovered a man who swam up from the capsize site.

India tonight banned 59 mobile apps, mostly Chinese like TikTok, WeChat and SHAREit, saying these “are prejudicial to the country’s sovereignty, integrity, defence, security and public order”.

State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid today told the parliament that the government has taken six measures to collect the due electricity bills through a quick correction of the inflated power bills.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, causing classrooms to stay closed, online education becomes more imperative. Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) acting Vice Chancellor Professor Milan Pagon in a recent interview with The Daily Star said that online education is much more than just emailing educational material to students and he was sceptical about the ability of many Bangladeshi universities to offer proper online education.

The government will give Tk 10,000 as grants to 1,500 journalists at the first stage during the ongoing coronavirus period, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud told parliament today.

Thousands of people in flood-affected areas of Bogura and Gaibandha districts are in search of safe shelter, a source of fresh drinking water, sanitation facilities and relief goods but to no avail. The condition continues to deteriorate as the waters of Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Ghagot rivers is rising steadily.

After three years of pressing the first charge sheet, members of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) on Monday pressed its second charge sheet against 10 people including Nur Mohammed, Chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Group, and his brother Mostaq Ahmed, under the Special Powers Act in a much-talked-about cocaine haul case filed with Bandar Police Station on June 28, 2015.

Saying that her government has taken various measures for ensuring treatment of Covid-19 patients, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament today that her government will soon recruit 2,000 more doctors and 4,000 nurses to strengthen the health sector.

In another case of extreme brutality and growing human-animal conflict, three people in the Indian state of Telangana hanged a monkey to death to scare away other primates from the area, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting forest department officials.

The government has decided to appoint former Inspector General of Police Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia.

Roads and Highway Department (RHD) has restricted vehicular movement on one of the four lanes of the busy First Bangladesh-China Friendship (Buriganga-1) bridge in Postogola since 6:00pm, as a crack developed after a rescue ship hit the bridge today noon.

Professor Shamsuzzaman Khan has been appointed as the chairman of Bangla Academy for the next three years.

Ignoring health directives to contain the spread of Covid-19, several thousands of people thronged the Sadarghat area today to witness the rescue operations of the launch capsize.

West Bengal government today said it has decided to market a favourite Bengali sweet “sandesh” mixed honey from the Sundarbans which is expected to boost immunity at a time when the state is witnessing a surge in coronavirus cases.

Former national footballer Md Lutfar Rahman, a member of the independent Bengali football team, died in Jashore today at the age of 69.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today seeking necessary action against three private hospitals for refusing to provide treatment to a patient and for charging extra from another patient.

Expressing her profound shock and sorrow at the deaths in a launch capsize in the Buriganga river, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she is enquiring about the rescue initiative round the clock.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today pressed charges against JuboMohila League's expelled leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman in an arms case.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Australian High Commission jointly handed over personal protective equipment to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.