Many Bangladeshis, who were stranded at India’s Petropole border, were allowed to enter the country through the Benapole border in Jashore yesterday.

Bangladesh has joined the China-led initiative with five other South Asian countries in the spirit of partnership and multilateralism to have vaccine and oxygen supplies during the critical period of coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh Coast Guard members yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, who were trying to go to Malaysia illegally by a trawler through the Bay of Bengal, in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf.

When the sudden halt to oxygen import from India may put the country at risk if the number of Covid-19 patients rises more, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said there is nothing to panic about the supply of oxygen in the country.

The government project undertaken to prepare the country’s first-ever poverty registry has not been completed in more than seven years, with the data collected for it already rendered useless.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed today appealed to neighbouring countries to grant immediate recognition to Bangladesh and to give unconditional arms aid and thus help a newborn country free itself from the clutches of a murderous army.

Masks work best when everyone wears them, but not at the time when someone puts it on incorrectly.

The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine yesterday criticised Brazil’s refusal to import the jab as politically motivated. Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Monday denied requests from several states to receive batches of Sputnik V, saying it did not have the data needed to verify the jab’s safety and efficacy.

Chinese Defence Minister Gen Wei Fenghe yesterday said his country was keen to extend cooperation to Bangladesh in tackling the Covid-19 outbreak.

Bangladesh Railway has started using the 10 locomotives that a South Korean company supplied breaching contract. The move comes even when a BR body is evaluating if those engines should be used.

Rab arrested two men accused in a case filed over the devastating fire at an unauthorised chemical warehouse that killed five people in old Dhaka’s Armanitola on Friday.

Kuwait’s Appeal Court yesterday extended the imprisonment of former Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul and two Kuwaitis to seven years, from four, in a bribery case.

In the first three months of this year, 38 cases were filed under the Digital Security Act against individuals exercising their right to freedom of expression.

A heat wave has been sweeping the country over the last few days, causing immense hardship to the manual workers, especially the day labourers.

US road movie “Nomadland” emerged as the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday with three major prizes, including a history-making award for director Chloe Zhao, as Hollywood celebrated its most glamorous night with a unique pandemic-era gala.

In a memorandum sent to President Richard Nixon today, the US President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger provided three policy options towards the East Pakistan crisis:

The United States and Britain rushed ventilators and vaccine materials to virus-stricken India yesterday while Italy lifted many Covid-19 restrictions in a bid to kickstart a near normal summer.

Russian prosecutors yesterday ordered jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and its regional network to suspend all their activities, its director said.

Officers tracked down the 10 Covid-19 patients, who fled from Jashore General Hospital from April 18-24 and sent them back to the facility last night.

The daily Covid cases may double after the third week of next month if the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are relaxed or withdrawn, a team of researchers has forecasted, based on epidemiological projection modelling.