The government has allowed people aged 40 and above to register for inoculation against Covid-19 as only a fraction of the people eligible for the shots are responding to the campaign.

Just imagine a day without a mirror. You’re getting ready for work, not knowing how you look. Your car, without rear-view mirrors, is on the busy road to office, negotiating the peak hour traffic.

The Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) yesterday asked the central bank to further relax the repayment tenure for term loans and working capital.

Police have pressed charges against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, writer Mushtaq Ahmed and Rashtrochinta activist Didarul Islam Bhuiyan in two cases filed last year under the Digital Security Act.

Apart from investigating corruption allegations against individuals, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) carries out enquiries into different government organisations and institutions to find out scopes of graft and make recommendations for the respective authorities accordingly to prevent these at source.

The High Court yesterday warned that it will not spare any corrupt people no matter how powerful they are -- be it ministers or lawmakers.

The High Court yesterday observed that the Anti-Corruption Commission should not act like a toothless tiger in combatting corruption and irregularities.

The government is likely to start collecting tolls from vehicles using the country’s first expressway -- Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway -- from July.

A probe has found that Hallmark General Manager Tushar Ahmed spent around two hours with a woman at a prison officer’s room in Kashimpur Central Jail-1.

Over 1.60 lakh individuals and organisations have grabbed 2.57 lakh acres of forest land across the country, the forest department reported to a Jatiya Sangsad committee yesterday.

What transpired on the fifth day of the first Test between Bangladesh and West Indies at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram yesterday will probably be regarded as one of the most amazing comebacks ever.

Mehedi Hasan took his weak and elderly mother to the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University vaccination centre around noon yesterday.

The Covid vaccination kick-started across the country yesterday amid much fanfare with ministers, freedom fighters, bureaucrats and eminent citizens joining the inoculation campaign.

Myanmar saw its largest anti-coup protests yet yesterday with young demonstrators spilling on to the streets to denounce the country’s new military regime, despite a nationwide internet blackout aimed at stifling a growing chorus of popular dissent.

After a freight train carrying diesel derailed at Gutigaon village of Sylhet’s Fenchuganj around Friday midnight, the fuel spilled from the tank wagons. Hearing the news, several locals rushed to the spot with whatever they had and started collecting the diesel.

The health directorate yesterday reported 305 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest daily number in 10 months after the first three cases were recorded in the country on March 8 last year.

The High Court has observed in a verdict that it is about time corrupt military and civil officials and staffers, and judges were put before the court of people in order to establish the rule of law.

Bangladesh is expecting visits by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several other VVIPs to Bangladesh this year on the occasion of the country’s 50 years of independence and of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The coronavirus vaccine is being rolled out across the country today amid lukewarm interest from the people in getting the shots.

Seven human rights groups have urged the United Nations to use its meetings with senior Bangladeshi military officials next week to seek explanations regarding an Al Jazeera report that alleged controversial purchase of a highly invasive spyware from Israel.