A day before resuming its flights on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi route from today, Biman Bangladesh Airlines decided not to operate its regular flights on the two high-demand destinations.

The High Court yesterday rejected a bail petition of suspended jailer of Chattogram Central Jail Sohel Rana Biswas in a money laundering case.

The budget allocation in health and family welfare has seen a steady increase in the past few years. This year, the amount increased by 13.66 percent, standing at Tk 29,247 crore.

A total of 219 people, who have returned home from Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain recently, were shown arrested under Section 54 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) for their alleged involvement in tarnishing the image of the government.

Seven days have already passed since the capsize of a launch in the Buriganga that claimed 34 lives, but police could not arrest anyone allegedly liable for the deaths.

Former member of Indo-Bangla Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) Tauhidul Anwar Khan passed away early yesterday at Dhaka’s Comfort Hospital, from kidney and heart-related complications. He was 73, said a press release.

S A Shahriar Ripon, CEO of media house Together Communi-cations and consultant of real estate company Sheltech (Pvt) Ltd has passed away on Saturday at Dhaka’s Square Hospital.

Five people, including a woman, died with fever and cold-related problems at Cumilla Medical College Hospital in the last 24 hours until yesterday morning.

Speakers at a virtual discussion lauded the government’s advance planning and joint efforts with the UN and humanitarian partners to limit the transmission of coronavirus in the Rohingya camps, saying that this story must be heard globally.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday found Aedes larvae in 91 houses and establishments during the second day of the 10-day “combing operation” to destroy breeding grounds of mosquitoes.The operation began in all the 54 wards under the city corporation simultaneously to protect city dwellers from the menace.

Visually impaired graduates have urged the government to ensure their employment so that they can live a decent life with an honest livelihood.

The government has taken all-out measures with priority on agriculture sector, to tackle the food crisis amid the coronavirus situation, said Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque.

With the recent creation of 215 superintendents of police (SP) rank posts, different police units have reorganised their structure by brining a change to the organogram.

If you ask anyone here, what do you do, he’d say I’m doing a job here, but I want them to say instead that they are running their own business here, this is what Mr Latifur Rahman, our LRN used to tell us. He believed in igniting aspiration among others; he used to take pride in the achievements of his people. I’ll never forget how proudly he introduced me to his fellow MCCI members as the first female professional reaching the height of being a General Manager in marketing arena of pharma industry, when I was promoted as the General Manager, Marketing of Eskayef in 2007.

A doa mahfil will be held at 5:30pm today in remembrance of Latifur Rahman, founder chairman and CEO of Transcom Group.

Six people have died with Covid-19 symptoms over the last twenty four hours in Cumilla.

The authorities of Chittagong University (CU) have put the campus under 14-day lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Speakers at an online press conference yesterday urged authorities to arrange animal sacrifice during upcoming Eid-ul-Azha in the country under a system followed in Saudi Arabia, to avoid environmental and health hazards.

Every day, Rubel Hossain, a staffer at Bangladesh Water Development Board, would get ready and keep on waiting for a bus to reach his Motijheel office from his Keraniganj residence. But the pandemic has changed his lifestyle, maybe for the better, as he started commuting on his bicycle for the last few weeks.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday found Aedes larvae in 91 houses and establishments during the first day of the 10-day “combing operation” to destroy breeding grounds of mosquitoes.