While he was the managing director of Reliance Finance Ltd, a non-bank financial institution, Proshanta Kumar Halder made his relatives directors of three other leasing companies to swindle money.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha and 10 others in a case filed over misappropriating and laundering about Tk 4 crore from the erstwhile Farmers Bank in 2016.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday questioned former director general of Directorate General of Health Services Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad for about four and a half hours over corruption allegations.

About 70 percent of the migrant workers who returned from abroad between February and June this year are unemployed, according to a study of International Organisation for Migration.

Various types of imported hazardous cargo, including chemical and other inflammable goods, have been lying around at the designated shed and yards of Chattogram Port for years -- posing the threat of fires and other accidents.

The decision on running a trial of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine in the country may come next week, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Belayet Hossain, superintendent of police of Rajshahi range, was sued yesterday for extortion in a case filed in Dhaka.

The block allocation of hundreds of crores of taka made to lawmakers for implementing Important Rural Infrastructure Development Project (IRIDP) failed to yield the desired benefit due to political influence, nepotism, extortion and the lack of a specific legal framework and monitoring, says a TIB report published yesterday.

Amnesty International has urged the Bangladesh government to immediately stop all attacks on those peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and urgently investigate a series of recent attacks.

President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess.

The government is considering cancelling this year’s Primary Education Completion, Junior School Certificate and equivalent exams due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Nine percent of the Dhaka city dwellers have already been infected with coronavirus and 78 percent of them had no symptoms, according to a study.

Thousands of students who got admission and scholarship at different universities abroad are in deep trouble due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The health ministry is going to sit next week to decide phase-III clinical trial of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine, its Secretary Abdul Mannan said.

Whenever a major road accident occurs, people of the country see the same old tired response from the government.

Stamford University student Shahadul Islam Sefat was released yesterday from jail after a Cox’s Bazar court granted him bail in two separate cases -- murder and narcotics -- filed by Teknaf police.

The investigation officer of the Maj (retd) Sinha murder case yesterday sought 10-day remand for four of the seven accused as they “disclosed very important information” during a two-day interrogation at jail gate.

Five members of the capital’s Kotwali police station were sued in an extortion case yesterday and Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) was instructed to carry out the investigation.

Bangladesh’s officially confirmed novel coronavirus cases went up to 260,507 with the detection of 2,907 new cases in 24 hours till 8:30am yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to make preparations in advance to face any possible long-term flood as forecasted by the meteorological department.