Seventy-seven people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

All public and private services in the country will be available online by 2025, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said while addressing a virtual programme as chief guest at the launch of the Institute of Business Analysis’s (IIBA) Bangladesh chapter last night.

Crowds are forming at Shimulia and Banglabazar ferry ghat as the government has declared a seven-day complete lockdown from Monday.

A former member of the United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) was abducted and stabbed to death in the remote Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari district early today.

The government is going to import 5 lakh tonnes of wheat from Russia.

A total of 102 people have died of Covid-19 in Chapainawabganj so far, the district’s Civil Surgeon Zahid Nazrul Chowdhury said today.

Police today arrested another Indian citizen on charge of entering Bangladesh without proper documents and visiting the Padma bridge site in Shariatpur’s Jajira late at night.

A total of 300 more distressed and low-income people including tailors, rickshaw-pullers and transgender individuals hardest-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic were given financial assistance as gift from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A van driver was killed after a pick-up van hit his vehicle in Dhaka’s Natun Bazar area this morning.

“Covid has killed my parents. I've become an orphan,” said a distraught 14-year-old Sajjad Hossain.

Mehdadur Rahman Durand, Deputy Managing Director of Uttara Group who sustained burns in a fire at his Gulshan home a week ago, died at a hospital early today.

As the government has declared seven-day complete lockdown from Monday, people are rushing to leave Dhaka but they are suffering on roads as all long-route buses from the capital remains suspended from June 23 to stem the surge in Covid infections and deaths.

A youth sedated two teenagers and raped them in Cox’s Bazar Chakaria upazila when their family members were not home on Tuesday.

A bridge on Chawra canal, in Mahishdanga area of Barguna's ​​Amtali upazila, collapsed last evening. At least 25,000 people from six neighbouring villages used the bridge on a regular basis.

Seventeen people -- eight male and nine female -- died at the Covid unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in 24 hours till this morning.

The government will impose a "strict” countrywide lockdown from Monday, which will continue for the next seven days.

Only coronavirus patients will be treated at Kushtia General Hospital as it has been declared a corona-dedicated hospital.

Speakers at a views exchange meeting today underscored the need to allocate adequate compensation from the state fund for torture victims and their families.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Robin Siddiqui, proprietor of AD26.com, an advertisement firm, in a case filed over misappropriating Tk 26.66 lakh from the Farmers Bank Ltd.

China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd has announced Tk two lakh reward for information on Chinese engineer Zhao Jianpeng (26), who went missing from Lauhajang upazila of Munshiganj on the night of June 22 while working in the Padma Bridge project.