Sonali Bank has approved a loan of Tk 1,000 crore to Biman Bangladesh Airlines, which sought Tk 1,500 from the state-owned bank as it was reeling from a fund crisis due to ongoing global travel restrictions thanks to Covid-19 pandemic.

For the last one month, sugarcane farmer Abdul Salam has not received a penny from the state-owned Mobarakganj Sugar Mill in Jhenaidah district’s Kaliganj upazila.

On May 2, 1972 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman visits defence ministry. He meets with the senior staff of the ministry. He is accompanied by defence secretary, Chief of Staff Colonel Shafiullah and Colonel Khaled Mosharraf, among others.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has formed a committee that will supervise the validation of the home-grown rapid test kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.

Criminals abducted three farmers in Teknaf and killed one of them after his family members failed to pay ransom for his release, police said yesterday.

The government yesterday directed all departments concerned not to allow the highly toxic ship “J Nat” to enter Bangladeshi territory.

Seven garment workers in Savar tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, according to sources at Savar Upazila Health Complex.

American authorities have approved an experimental drug for emergency use on coronavirus patients, as more US states eased pandemic lockdowns despite another spike in deaths from the disease.

Two sub-inspectors died with coronavirus in the last two days at Central Police Hospital in the capital, raising the Covid-19 death toll among law enforcers to five.

Three journalists were sent to jail by a Narsingdi court yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over quoting a police official without contacting him.

Two more Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) personnel have died with Covid-19 in the last two days.

After her mother passed away, her father remarried and moved elsewhere, and so attending school became a luxury for 12-year-old Sheuly Munda.

South Korea, once one of the hardest-hit countries in the coronavirus pandemic, reported no new cases yesterday, boosting hopes of an eventual return to normality as US scientists hailed the results of a major drug trial.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) is working to resume operations of domestic and international flights on a limited scale after May 8 if the coronavirus situation improves or remains steady by then.

Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday demanded a stimulus package from the government for newspapers, hawkers, workers and agents to offset the coronavirus impact.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today speaks to the nation on the occasion of the historic May Day. He declares that the salaries of low-income employees and workers will be raised.

Bollywood mourned a second loss in as many days as celebrated actor Rishi Kapoor, whose career spanned half a century, died yesterday aged 67 after a prolonged struggle with cancer.

It all changed after his father passed away. Mehedi Hasan Rasel, after graduating from a leading public university, had joined a private job and earned a handsome salary.

I received a text message from a friend last night saying, “I feel so down that if I could sleep for 24 hours, I would! These are not normal days! Sleeping is now the only escape from reality!”

European countries tried to balance how far to ease coronavirus lockdowns yesterday, with Germany enforcing mandatory masks in shops, as the crushing global economic cost of the pandemic became clearer.