Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said today.

Bangladeshi icon Jaya Ahsan has been nominated for the Joy Filmfare Awards (Bangla) 2020 in the category of Best Actress (Critics) for her roles in “Bijoya” and “Robibar”.

A nayeb-e-amir of central Hefajat-e-Islam Abdul Awal today allegedly announced his resignation due to a difference of opinion in observing the recent hartal and protest programme.

A college girl has filed a case against her brother-in-law on charge of raping her several times between 2011 to 2020 in Sandwip upazila of Chattogram.

Two people were killed today and one was critically injured as a train of Modhumati Express collided with a soil-laden truck on the Rajbari-Bhanga railway at Basantapur union of Rajbari Sadar upazila.

A Chattogram today sent the city unit BNP’s convener Dr Shahadat Hossain and 15 other BNP leaders and activists to jail in three cases filed against them with Chawkbazar and Kotwali Police Stations yesterday.

Seven cases have been filed so far in connection with the mayhem carried out by Hefajat-e Islam in Brahmanbaria from Friday.

A cargo vessel carrying coal sank in the Katakhali area of Pashur River today due to excessive water current.

When Hamida Parvin returned home to Bangladesh for a month’s holiday from her job as a nanny in Qatar last February, she was excited to see her 17-year-old son after a year apart.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police has banned the carrying of firearms and holding of rallies, processions, or agitation in and around the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban ahead of the 12th session of the 11th parliament, which is scheduled to begin on April 1.

At least 100 people were injured in two separate clashes between BNP men and police in Kishoreganj town today.

India’s drug regulator has allowed the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be used for up to nine months from its manufacture date, as opposed to the prescribed six months, according to a document reviewed by Reuters and a source.

Six cases have been filed against 2,925 people last night in connection with clashes between law enforcers and Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Narayanganj during Sunday’s countrywide hartal enforced by the Islamist group.

Three persons were sentenced to one year in prison (each) by a mobile court for transporting 30maund of jatka (hilsa fry) in Chandpur’s Sadar upazila.

Retired Major General AMSA Amin today announced a new political party called “Noitik Samaj”.

An unidentified person was hit by a train while passing through a railway crossing in Jashore’s Abhaynagar upazila today.

Forty-five people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours -- for the second consecutive day -- today (till 8am), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Hefajat-e-Islam will be resisted the same way BNP-Jamaat was in 2013, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said today.

Eleven distinguished personalities today issued a statement urging the government and people of Bangladesh to boldly resist the destructive attempts and activities by Hefajat-e-Islam and anti-liberation forces as the nation celebrates Mujib Borsho and golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.

The district administration started a much-awaited eviction drive along the Ichamati river in Pabna to free it from the structures illegally built on the river land.