UK Returnees: 7-day quarantine mandatory

Air travellers from the UK without Covid-19 negative certificates would be quarantined for seven days.
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM

BSF kills another Bangladeshi amid zero killing talks

India’s Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi citizen along the border in Mymensingh Tuesday night while the director general of the force was participating in a conference with their Bangladeshi counterparts where the top agenda was to stop border killings.
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Curbing Road Crashes: Govt steps confined to talks, committees

Government steps for curbing road crashes and bringing discipline in the road transport sector continue to remain confined to holding meetings and forming committees and sub-committees.
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM

The unlucky 7

A master’s student of chemistry at Dhaka College who was planning to finish post-graduation a while ago, he is now waiting impatiently for his remaining exams to be over so that he can shoulder some of the family responsibilities that his father bears alone.
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Pornography spreads amid futile govt ban

The government initiative to block pornography websites has proved a futile exercise due to lack of technological knowhow and concerted efforts from the state agencies.
23 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Public Hospitals: Oxygen supply under strain

Supply of liquid oxygen to public hospitals has been under strain as a production plant of a key supplier remains out of service for nearly two weeks.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Migration to Italy: Don’t fall in trap, use legal ways

As Italy has enlisted Bangladesh as one of the 30 countries eligible to send seasonal and non-seasonal workers after an eight-year long suspension, Italian authorities have urged aspirants to use legal pathways.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

House Rent Allowances: Not for those who avoid staying in govt houses: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government officials and public university teachers who do not stay in the houses and quarters earmarked for them will not be given any house rent allowances.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Human Trafficking Proceeds: Papul, family made over Tk 355cr

Independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul and his family members amassed more than Tk 355 crore mainly through human trafficking over the last several years.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

17 more die, 1,318 infected with Covid

The health directorate reported 17 people died from Covid-19 -- the lowest daily count in the last five weeks -- in 24 hours ending 8:00am yesterday.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Suspending Flights to UK: Govt taking time to decide over new strain fears

Bangladesh will decide on suspending flights to the UK after understanding the situation over the spread of a new strain of the novel coronavirus there, Mohibul Haque, senior secretary of the civil aviation and tourism ministry, said yesterday.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Rising Cybercrime: Police hotlines flooded with complaints

“Please save me, I have no other option but to die.”
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM

List money launderers with dual citizenship

The High Court yesterday sought a list of names and addresses of Bangladeshi nationals with dual citizenships and dual passports, who have purchased or built houses abroad by laundering money.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Losses by State Jute, Sugar Mills: Mismanagement, graft to blame

Mismanagement, corruption and absence of proper planning are responsible for the losses incurred by the state-owned jute and sugar mills, and workers in no way can be blamed, a group of educationists and researchers said.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

UK isolated over virus variant

The world yesterday scrambled to contain a fast-spreading mutation of the coronavirus sweeping Britain, as a growing number of countries suspended flights from the UK, sowing travel chaos ahead of the holidays.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Human Development Index: Bangladesh up two notches

Bangladesh has moved up two notches in the Human Development Index this year, but remains behind four other South Asian countries.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

A strange scheme to steal NID info

Krishnapad, 45, has spent his whole life in the coastal area of Swandip’s Sontoshpur union and earned for his family and himself as a fisherman.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

New Virus Strain: Saudi Arabia suspends all int’l flights for a week

Saudi Arabia has suspended all international flights for a week amid reports of the appearance of a new mutated strain of novel coronavirus in the UK.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

6cr Covid shots expected by June

Bangladesh will get six crore shots of Covid-19 vaccines between May and June next year from the COVAX facility, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said yesterday.
21 December 2020, 18:00 PM

Allegations ‘baseless, might be ill motivated’

Distinguished citizens have brought “baseless” allegations against the Election Commission, said Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury yesterday.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM