A garment factory owner who was present at the Dhaka Boat Club around midnight on June 9 had been involved in inciting the incident centring actor Pori Moni, Detective Branch officials said yesterday.

Parliament yesterday witnessed a heated debate over clubs in the capital as well as alcohol and gambling.

An icddr,b study found 68 percent of the coronavirus cases in Dhaka city are of the highly transmissible Delta variant.

For years, a fear of eviction chased labourer Md Anis as he had been living as an illegal occupant at a khas land once owned by zamindars of Manikganj.

Taking advantage of the naivety of some young women and children, cybercriminals are using social media to exploit, expose, blackmail, bully, and even traffic them in astonishing numbers.

Bangladesh has climbed seven notches from last year and secured the 91st position among 163 countries in Global Peace Index for 2021 released by the Institute of Economics and Peace yesterday.

In circuses, whenever artists perform the tightrope walking stunt, underneath them are wide nets to prevent them from falling to the ground and avoiding potentially life-threatening injuries -- lest they lose their balance on the thin rope and falls over.

Tuhin Siddique Omi, an accused in an attempted rape and murder case filed by actor Pori Moni, was sued yesterday under the passport act by police who suspect he is involved in human trafficking.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was going to sign an agreement with South Korea to set up an international standard vaccine institute in order to produce vaccines, including those against Covid-19, in the country.

The cost of living in Dhaka shot up by 6.8 percent in 2020 mainly because of the rising prices of daily essentials amid the pandemic, according to a report by the Consumers Association of Bangladesh.

The Covid situation is now going from bad to worse even beyond the bordering districts, raising the spectre of widespread virus transmission all over the country.

Jatiya Party senior lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu yesterday demanded the government issue an order asking civil-military bureaucrats and business persons to file wealth statements in two to three months.

Officials of Detective Branch of police yesterday assured actor Pori Moni that those who attempted to rape and kill her would be brought to book, regardless of how influential they might be.

As the Covid-19 positivity rate rose to 14.27 percent yesterday, restrictions, including lockdown, were imposed in more areas of the country’s border districts to slow down transmission.

Panchagarh, a bordering district, is home to 11 lakh people. But the number of daily Covid tests in the country’s northernmost district hardly gives any indication of its population.

It is universally acknowledged that the global coronavirus pandemic has widened inequalities in nations all over -- including Bangladesh.

The Sal Forest in Tangail is shrinking fast as mindless grabbing and tree felling continue, threatening the existence of this natural treasure and pushing its flora and fauna towards extinction.

Awami League lawmaker Meher Afroz yesterday in parliament joined the ongoing protest against a parliamentary body’s recommendation to exclude female UNOs in giving the guard of honour to freedom fighters after their death.

Police arrested five people, including a real-estate businessman and presidium member of the Jatiya Party, yesterday after film actor Pori Moni filed a case with Savar Police Station over their attempt to rape and murder her.

As the Covid-19 crisis continues to unfold in bordering districts, with some put under lockdown to put the brakes on the transmission, major hospitals in those districts totter due to a shortage of frontline doctors and nurses.