It happens at a time when farmers are complaining of shortages of labourers due to the travel restrictions amid the nationwide shutdown enforced to fight the Covid-19 outbreak.

Five years after he was pardoned by the president from death row, former Jubo League leader Aslam Fakir was accused of another murder in Faridpur’s Bhanga upazila on Wednesday.

Britain and the European Union showed little sign of progress towards a deal on their post-Brexit relationship this week, failing to bridge differences over future competition and EU fishing access to British waters.

Three persons, including a pregnant woman and a sex worker, have died with Covid-19 symptoms in Jashore and Rajbari districts since Thursday afternoon.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has sought a Tk 1,500 crore loan from the state-owned Sonali Bank as the national flag carrier has been reeling from a severe cash crunch amid global travel restrictions owing to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the days of coronavirus, people are stuck inside their homes for around a month and it has extended till May 5.

The Bangladesh government has decided to abolish the lease system of the haats and bazaars. The decision is taken at the Cabinet meeting

China’s space agency yesterday unveiled the name of its first Mars exploration mission, coinciding with China’s annual Space Day and the 50th anniversary of the launch of its first satellite.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan yesterday decried crimes against “civilisation” and demanded an apology from Turkey as his country marked the 105th anniversary of the WWI-era Armenian genocide.

Grameenphone yesterday said they have donated Tk 15 crore to Brac’s emergency food assistance fund, which will help 100,000 families, who have become jobless following the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

An engineer at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant died on Thursday night after being hit by a concrete mixing machine.

Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has not been allowed to reunite with his family in Beijing following his release from prison, his wife said yesterday, after Washington urged China to lift restrictions on his movements.

Peru will release under amnesty about 3,000 prisoners including those who are particularly at risk from the coronavirus pandemic, the justice minister has said.

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it is looking into reopening its massive shopping malls, a month after they were closed as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.

The UN Refugee Agency has expressed deep concerns over the reported failures of vessels in the Bay of Bengal to disembark.

The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said yesterday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up.

Dhaka dwellers witnessed a brief but heavy rain coupled with thunder showers yesterday afternoon.

The LGRD and cooperatives ministry has suspended seven more union parishad chairmen and three members over embezzlement of relief materials and irregularities in relief distribution amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Bangladesh slipped one notch down in this year’s World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, also known as Reporters sans frontières (RSF).

Police yesterday recovered throat-slit bodies of four members of a family from their home in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.