The Saudi Arabian Airlines will operate 50 to 60 flights between Dhaka and Saudi Arabia this month in a bid to fly more workers waiting to go back to the Gulf country.

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a “devastating impact” on mental health services globally, the World Health Organization said yesterday, ahead of a large fundraising push.

Many migrant workers, who got stuck after coming from Saudi Arabia on vacation, are having to ask their employers to get their visas and residence permits renewed.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was careful so that prompt action could be taken against any kind of oppression of children in the country.

A wave of protests erupted in the capital and elsewhere over the horrific gang-rape incident in Noakhali’s Begumganj with the agitators demanding justice for the heinous crime that has shaken the conscience of the nation.

On the day following the gang-rape on September 2, the Noakhali woman had gone to a member of Eklashpur Union Parishad seeking his help in taking the matter to the police, but to no avail.

Four years of illegal sand lifting and forest razing have turned what was once a dense forest in Chakaria, Cox’s Bazar, into what now appears to be a lake.

Sirajul Haque Khan cannot recall the last time someone came to check the gas connection to his building.

Late last night, there was widespread outrage on social media as the graphic video of a woman in Noakhali being gang-raped was uploaded and shared yesterday.

The High Court has observed that corrupt judges should be discharged from their duties immediately in order to keep the judiciary free from graft.

Golam Kibria used to teach at a private school in Parbatipur town in Dinajpur before the pandemic hit the country.

A staggering 99.8 percent of the 430 garment workers, covered by a survey, claimed that they were not infected with Covid-19, according to a study by Manusher Jonno Foundation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he stands ready to work with Bangladesh to better align the two countries’ strategies and jointly promote the construction of the Belt and Road to take the China-Bangladesh strategic partnership of cooperation to new heights, reports Xinhua.

As a part of intensifying and strengthening narcotics control across the country, the government has taken steps to form an independent institution to carry out dope tests in a structural manner.

The government has undertaken a programme worth $550 million with an aim to procure and distribute coronavirus vaccines.

Tensions continue to brew between pro- and anti-government leaders from Hefajat-e-Islam and Qwami madrasas over securing the top posts of the Chattogram-based Islamist group, Qwami Madrasa Education Board (Befaq), and Al-Haiyatul Ulia Lil-Jamiatil Qwamia Bangladesh, which is the highest level of Qwami madrasa education in the country.

Three more people accused in a case filed over the gangrape of a woman at Sylhet’s Murari Chand College gave their confessional statements to a district court yesterday.

White House officials sought to project an air of business as usual despite President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and hospitalisation, but aides privately expressed concern about the presidential election and showed signs of rising worry about the coronavirus.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed disappointment after seeing several names of “wrongdoers and infiltrators” were proposed for inclusion in the district, city and upazila committees of the party.

With suspended officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das now behind bars over the killing of retired army major Sinha, stories are unearthed about the unwritten law of the upazila town: you pay, you live.