Death of College Girl: Her diaries hold vital evidence

Six diaries of the college student found dead in a Gulshan flat on Monday contain crucial evidence supporting the allegations against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir of abetting suicide, police said.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Reaching Those in Need of Help: Govt struggles for lack of enough data

The government faces a challenge in reaching the target population in need of financial assistance amid the Covid pandemic in the absence of a comprehensive database of poor people.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Experts Views: Should we be worried about India variant?

India is witnessing a devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Vaccines must be distributed with equity

China and five South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, have opposed the idea of vaccine nationalism while calling for distribution of vaccine under the principles of equity and justice.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Risking own lives to save lives

Muhammad Asaduzzaman, a doctor treating Covid-19 patients, has nightmares that people are gasping for air and pleading to be saved.
28 April 2021, 18:00 PM

313 identified as Hefajat’s donors

Detectives claimed to have identified at least 313 donors, who used to finance Hefajat-e Islam that carried out violence across the country late last month protesting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Austerity During Pandemic: No work order in rest of fiscal year

As the government sticks to austerity in face of the pandemic, it has asked all ministries, except health and agriculture, not to issue work order for any physical works during the remainder of the current fiscal year.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

College girl found dead in Dhaka flat

A day after a college student’s body was recovered from a rented Gulshan flat, her family yesterday sued Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir over abetting her death by suicide.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

City Bank founder Deen Mohammad passes away

Prominent Industrialist and Chairman of Phoenix Group Deen Mohammad passed away at a hospital in Dhaka early yesterday. He was 83.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Govt gives nod to Sputnik V for emergency use

In a desperate attempt to keep the mass vaccination campaign on track, the government yesterday gave emergency use authorisation to Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Lockdown Fallout: City poor barely on govt’s mind

Over the last couple of weeks, Abdus Sobhan, a day labourer in the capital, saw his earnings drop to almost nothing.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Khaleda in hospital with Covid

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the city last night.
27 April 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Lockdown’ extended till May 5

Concerned over the steep rise in coronavirus cases in India, the government mulls imposing more Covid-19 restrictions in Bangladesh in the coming days.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Jobs taken, benefits too

After Dragon Sweaters’ Dhaka factory closed due to the pandemic last year, former garments worker Abdul Kuddus had to sign away rights to half of his termination benefits.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Save lives now, all else can wait

Ten months ago, a government-commissioned research report on the fallout of the pandemic-induced shutdown divulged some grim projections: over 1.64 crore people in the country would become new poor in the second quarter of 2020.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Govt to buy 18 lakh tonnes of paddy, rice

Amid the Boro harvest, the government has decided to buy 6.5 lakh tonnes of paddy and 11.5 lakh tonnes of rice from the local market to increase its food stock.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Mitigating Vaccine shortage: Russia, China can be new sources

The government is seriously considering importing Covid-19 vaccines from Sinopharm of China and Russia’s Sputnik V in order to ensure continuation of the ongoing mass vaccination programme.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Shafi followers out to reclaim Hefajat helm

With Hefajat-e-Islam’s central committee dissolved, followers of its late amir Shah Ahmad Shafi now eye top posts in the new committee.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

Covid Pandemic: PM for stronger role of developed nations

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought a stronger role of the developed world and the development partners in attaining quick recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM

India Halting Supply: Oxygen crunch may turn grave

The sudden halt to oxygen import from India amid the second Covid-19 wave may put Bangladesh in a precarious position if the current coronavirus situation deteriorates, fear health officials and suppliers.
26 April 2021, 18:00 PM