Although public transports were allowed to operate till noon today to facilitate workers returning to workplace amid lockdown, vehicles were seen plying Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways after 12pm.

A garment worker died as a bus ran over him on Dhaka-Rangpur highway under Sadar upazila in Bogura today.

At least six people were killed and seven were injured when a truck fell into a ditch at Shibchar in Madaripur. The accident took place near the toll plaza of Arial Khan Bridge in the upazila around 9pm last night.

Fourteen Covid-19 patients and four others with symptoms died in Kushtia in 24 hours till 8am today.

A total of 996 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the Sylhet division in 24 hours till this morning, breaking previous records of infection.

As public transport was allowed till this noon, workers of export-oriented factories were rushing to their workplaces in Dhaka and adjacent areas, causing massive traffic congestion on Bangabandhu bridge.

Following three days' strict quarantine at the team hotel since their return from Zimbabwe, the Bangladesh cricket team got on the field today ahead of the five-match T20 series against Australia.

Australia's Emma McKeon became the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games on Sunday after completing the sprint double with victory in the 50m freestyle and then winning another gold in the women's 4x100 medley relay.

Pakistan's versatile bowling attack did just enough to restrain a rampant Nicholas Pooran and come away with a seven-run victory over the West Indies in the second T20 International of the four-match series at the National Stadium in Guyana on Saturday.

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Among the monumental events in Bangladesh cricket’s history that shaped the course of its evolution, the ODI win against Australia back in 2005 by riding on Mohammad Ashraful’s brilliant hundred, during the NatWest Series in Cardiff, will undoubtedly remain right on top for the Tigers.

The onus is on Mahmudullah Riyad, the captain of the Bangladesh T20 team, to guide his side on both fronts – as a player and a leader -- against

Bangladesh are fresh from their impeccable display against Zimbabwe, who the Tigers beat in every format last month to complete a comprehensive series sweep away from home. Even after such a dominant showing across formats, you will find very few who can confidently say that the Tigers have ended their troubles in the game, at least form-wise.

Vietnam raced past Bangladesh to be the second-largest apparel exporter globally in 2020 as the Southeast Asian country managed to keep the coronavirus pandemic in control and allowed factories to operate.

The sudden government decision to reopen export-oriented factories from this morning amid the lockdown left thousands of workers in the lurch.

Domestic production of diammonium phosphate, a widely used agricultural fertiliser, remains suspended since July 1, raising concerns over meeting its enormous domestic demand.

Miscreants again set fire to the house of Brahmanbaria district unit Awami League general secretary and valiant freedom fighter Al Mamun Sarkar in the district town yesterday.

The Water Development Board in Jashore has been trying to solve the longstanding problem of waterlogging at Bhabadah by pumping out stagnant water using 20 pumps since the beginning of the year.

Helena Jahangir, a businessperson who was arrested from her residence on Thursday, was “extorting money” through her illegal internet protocol television (IPTV) channel named Joyjatra Television, said the Rapid Action Battalion yesterday.

A union parishad chairman was sued over the rape of a woman in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila on Friday whereas police arrested a youth on charge of raping a minor girl in Rajshahi’s Bagmara upazila on Friday night.