Ten people died of Covid-19 in Sylhet division in 24 hours (till 8am today).

SS Power I Limited, a concern of S Alam Group, at Banshkhali in Chattogram, has provided Tk 5 lakh to each of the families of the seven victims killed in police firing on April 17 this year.

Public and vehicular movement has increased on Dhaka streets today -- first weekday after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays.

Thirty-six rooms of a one-storey building have been gutted in a fire in the Fakhruddin Textile Mills area in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.

A speech-impaired youth was dead after being attacked over a football match in Jhikargachha upazila of Jashore yesterday. Two others were also injured in the incident. 

Six automobile workshops along with two buses and a private car were burnt in a fire at Gopibagh in Dhaka this morning, Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said.

Economist, civil society leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Professor Muhammad Yunus has called upon all athletes to provide leadership in creating a world of “three zeros”.

Ten people diagnosed with Covid-19 and four others with symptoms died at the Covid unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in 24 hours till 8am today.

One hundred and one distinguished citizens from Chattogram, in a joint statement, have urged the government not to set up a hospital in CRB area of the port city -- fearing that it will leave a bad impact on environment and ecosystem.

Seven people died of Covid-19 and seven with Covid-like symptoms at the Covid-19 units of three Bogura hospitals in 24 hours (till 8 am) today.

Eleven people died of Covid-19 in Chattogram district in 24 hours, till 8am today.

Eleven patients died while undergoing treatment at the Covid units of three Khulna hospitals in 24 hours till 8am today.

Fifteen people died of Covid-19 and four with symptoms in Kushtia in 24 hours, till 8am today.

Prices of essential goods are on the rise as the supply of goods in the market is comparatively low during the lockdown.

The number of cattle sacrificed on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha dropped for the second year as the ongoing second wave of coronavirus cases and the growing economic costs of the pandemic dampened the spirit of the religious festival.

Bangladesh is going to develop its own social media platforms called “Jogajog” and “Alapon” as alternatives to Facebook and WhatsApp, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said.

A probe committee formed after a ferry on Friday rammed a pillar of the under-construction Padma Bridge found that the master and quartermaster of the vessel were responsible for the mishap that left 20 people injured.

Prof Jahanara Begum, a former state minister for cultural affairs and BNP vice chairman, died of cardiac arrest in the city yesterday. She was 79.

East Pakistan Governor Lt Gen Tikka Khan today admitted that a railway bridge in Cumilla had been blown up by the Mukti Fouj recently.

Contrary to popular belief, the most dominant cause children’s deaths in Bangladesh is not malnutrition or diarrhoea.