A woman and her 11-year-old daughter were found dead at their house in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar area this morning.

Ferries on Paturia-Daulatdia routes are transporting returning holidaymakers, who went to their village homes before Eid, and all vehicles except buses on the second day of the 14-day “strict lockdown”.

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

Around one and a half years ago, Dhaka North City Corporation procured three turntable ladders for dousing flames at high-rise buildings.

Police have cleared Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir of the charges of abetting the death of a college student by suicide in a Gulshan flat in April.

The government could not stop the rampant waste of rawhide this year too despite fixing a higher price for the animal skins and allowing the export of wet blue for the first time in 30 years.

Foreigners in Dhaka were warned this week to avoid Chinese restaurants, which apparently became the latest targets for Bangladeshi guerillas.

After Eid-ul-Azha, Dhaka city could be cleaned within three days through the efforts of the two city corporations and city dwellers.

A Chhatra League activist, who was stabbed and beaten up by a gang of criminals early Thursday in Gazipur, died from wounds at a hospital in the capital yesterday.

At least 85 people with dengue fever were admitted to hospitals in the country in the 24 hours till 8am today.

One hundred and sixty-six people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its Asian Development Outlook Supplement of July said Bangladesh's economic recovery will continue amid the second wave of Covid-19 much like the previous fiscal year, depending on exports and remittances.

Government is planning to lower the age limit from 30 to 18 years to be eligible for Covid-19 vaccine shot among mass people.

The project director of Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project has said that they do not think the hit to a pillar by a ferry this morning has caused any damage to the structure.

Despite Tokyo’s commitment to help phase out fossil fuels, Bangladesh is currently building the Matarbari coal plant: a power complex set to be completed by 2024 thanks to low-interest loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

Around 20 passengers were injured after a ro-ro ferry hit a pillar of Padma Bridge while going to Shimulia ghat of Munshiganj from Banglabazar ghat of Madaripur.

Six people died and one person was injured after a truck hit a battery-run three-wheeler in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat this morning.

All types of water transport will be prohibited from operating on inland waterways for the next 14 days due to the strict lockdown enforced to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country,

One hundred and eighty-seven people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Paturia ferry ghat was crowded with holidaymakers starting to return to Dhaka and surrounding districts after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha at their village homes.