The government’s decision to shut all state-run jute mills could not have come at a more inopportune time for the barely surviving workers in this sector.

Jannatul Ferdous was admitted to Max Hospital in Chattogram with breathing problems early last month.

Platinum Jute Mill’s worker Eratun Khatun broke down in tears when she saw the notice declaring the permanent closure of the organisation she had been with for almost three decades.

Soaring prices of daily essentials are hurting low and middle-income families in the capital as they find it increasingly hard to pay for the same basic essentials amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sunuj Ullah, Eshrak Mia, and Jamal Mia are the husbands of Mohesh Sarkar, Subol Sarkar and Kali Kanto Sarkar, respectively -- at least that’s what a list of beneficiaries for a government food programme shows.

The government has decided to shut down production at 25 state-run jute mills under Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) by providing cent percent dues of some 25,000 workers.

The number of Covid-19 patients in the country surged past the 1.5 lakh-mark as 4,019 new cases of infections were reported yesterday, so far the highest in a single day.

The committees formed by the government to help it make policy decisions to put the brakes on the pandemic have not been working properly or their recommendations were ignored.

Latifur Rahman has been laid to rest at the capital’s Banani Graveyard.

With the death of founding chairman and CEO of Transcom Group Latifur Rahman, the country has lost a business leader who lived by the highest standards of integrity and was a protector of professional and independent media.

Dhaka Medical College authorities yesterday cleared the confusion about their request for Tk 20 crore from the government for food and accommodation of their healthcare workers, just a couple of days after the prime minister expressed doubt in this regard.

Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus has issued an open call to the people of all strata to sign a pledge declaring the Covid-19 vaccine to be a common good.

The country yesterday observed the fourth anniversary of militant attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital’s Gulshan, paying tribute to the victims in the gruesome attack.

Forty-one people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 2:30pm yesterday, said the Directorate General of Health Services.

With the Covid-19 pandemic wrecking lives and livelihoods, the government has renewed its focus and stepped up thrust on boosting production of Aus and Aman rice to ensure adequate availability of staple food in the country and slash dependence on the global market.

He was an editor’s dream of an investor. But he turned out to be so much more. Yes, Matiur Rahman and I run the two papers -- Prothom Alo and The Daily Star respectively -- but it was he who made them happen, with his principles, integrity, courage, steadfastness, strength of character, and unswerving faith in independent media without which, he intuitively knew, that democracy could not flourish.

He was a paragon of business ethics.

Around 12 hours after a launch capsized in the Buriganga river on Monday, authorities started to rescue the vessel when a man swam out alive, raising more questions than could be answered.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday came under fire in parliament from opposition BNP and Jatiya Party MPs due to his ministry’s alleged failure to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and ensure treatment and testing facilities to the coronavirus infected people.

A portion of the First Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge, also known as Postogola Bridge, was damaged as the crew of a BIWTA salvage ship did not lower the crane installed on it, according to Roads and Highways Department.