This will be a different Eid that we will be observing after the holy month of Ramadan. For most of us, it will be within the confines of our

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday issued a 14-point instructions for devotees and mosque committees for observing the Eid-ul-Fitr and attending Eid prayers.

While the number of Covid-19 positive cases as well as deaths keep rising every day, with Dhaka worst affected, many are still indifferent to maintaining social distancing and health safety guidelines.

Thousands of people continued to leave Dhaka yesterday as the government apparently relaxed travel restrictions ahead of the Eid.

Despite rising Covid-19 infections and deaths, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun yesterday said there seems to be no need for a curfew-like situation.

Cancellation of readymade garment orders by Western brands is unfair, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen as he called upon expatriate Bangladeshis to stand against such actions.

Bobita Dalboth was supposed to stay busy with customers during this time of the year. Pre-Eid is the most profitable time for beauticians like her. On the busiest days, clients would have to line up and wait for their turn to get some last minute grooming done.

China warned yesterday that its huge economy faces an immense challenge from the coronavirus, as the ongoing pandemic and national lockdowns caused massive job losses in the US and Latin America.

Some 87 percent of 558 returnee migrant workers do not have income opportunities amid the shutdown enforced to contain coronavirus spread, said a Brac Migration Programme report.

Dwindling blood donation due to the Covid-19 related shutdown is taking a heavy toll on thalassemia patients, who need frequent blood transfusions depending on their condition.

About 13,000 drivers of CNG-run three-wheelers in the country are among this vulnerable group. They have mostly remained out of the radar of aid. The government’s assistance or wealthy people’s financial help have hardly reached them. Having exhausted meagre savings and loans from relatives, they’re bracing themselves for the seemingly inevitable.

Some 87 percent of returnee migrant workers do not have income opportunities now amid the shutdown enforced to contain coronavirus spread, says a survey report of Brac Migration Programme.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) issues a 14-point instruction, signed by DMP Commissioner Shafiqul Islam, for devotees and mosque committees for observing the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr and attending Eid prayers.

An additional secretary of the government, who was infected with Covid-19, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this morning.

People have started leaving the capital for their village homes today for their Eid-ul-Fitr holidays amid the nationwide shutdown enforced to curb the transmission of Covid-19.

Twenty-four people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A total of 731 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Maldives, India and Canada amid suspension on international flights due to Covid-19 pandemic, return home on five separate special flights.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun says that people can go to their village homes on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr using “personal” vehicles following health directives.

Md Sharif Mahmud Apu, public relations officer of the home ministry, battles both dengue and coronavirus at the same time.

The main coronavirus treatment centre in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths in just over two weeks, the medical charity running the site says, more than double the toll announced by Yemeni authorities so far.