A mobile court of Barishal District Administration in association with the Drug Administration seized a huge quantity of fake hand sanitisers and penalised nine persons in the city’s Hemayetuddin and Chawkbazar areas yesterday.

Rights organisation Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has urged the religious affairs ministry to raise awareness on violence against women and children through different religious institutions during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dhaka University (DU) authorities will resume coronavirus testing facilities at its lab from tomorrow.

Rights organisation Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has urged the religious affairs ministry to spread awareness on violence against women and children through different religious institutions during the coronavirus pandemic.

A virtual court in Dhaka today refused to hold hearing on a petition seeking bail for photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, as he is yet to be shown arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

The High Court has deferred to June 29 the delivery of its order on a writ petition filed seeking action against those responsible for the deadly fire at the isolation unit in United Hospital, where five people were killed on May 27.

The High Court has issued injunction till August 10 on Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority's (Wasa) decision of hiking water price by 25 percent from April 1 this year.

The officer-in-charge of Khulna Sadar Police Station was closed yesterday for negligence of duty over the murder of Dr Abdur Rakib Khan, who was beaten to death by the relatives of a patient.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bela) has received the 2020 Tang Prize in “Rule of Law” for its “efforts in furthering the rule of law and its institutions through education and advocacy”.

Renowned journalist and cultural personality Kamal Lohani was laid to rest with state honours at his family graveyard in Shantala village of Sirajganj’s Ullahpara upazila on Saturday night.

Rights activists have pointed out that women working in the beauty industry of the country, many of whom belong to indigenous communities, have been in severe hardship amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Five people have been named winners of a review competition on books of renowned writer-journalist-politician Abul Mansur Ahmad.

The country’s economy is going to face a double blow due to the Covid-19 pandemic and recurring natural calamities owing to climate change, speakers said yesterday.

Barishal District Administration realised fines worth Tk 51 lakh after drives against violation of Covid-19 regulations in the district during the last three months.

Amid growing demand of face masks and sanitisers, unscrupulous producers and contractors are pushing unauthorised and off-brand products into the markets, raising alarm about public health and safety.

Three people were killed and another was injured in road accidents in two districts during the last two days, according to reports from our local correspondents.

Rohingya children in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar face heightened risk of violence including child trafficking, child labour and child marriage amid worsening socioeconomic conditions caused by Covid-19, said child rights organisation Educo.

A lighter vessel carrying 940 tonnes of chickpea to Khulna from Chattogram capsized at the Bay of Bengal yesterday morning.All 12 crew members of “MV Golam Rahman” were rescued by the staff of another lighter vessel, while the ship master managed to run the vessel aground to a submerged land mass near Patenga beach.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the orders issued by the lower court and the High Court in connection with a Tk 159 crore money laundering case filed against Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of Farmers Bank’s former audit committee chairman Mahbubul Haque Chisty.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh warns of actions against Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) if it dumps waste from sewerage lines on the streets.