Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ended today with immersion of idols of goddess Durga and her children on the fifth day of celebration.

Md Yasin, a Bangladeshi migrant worker in Qatar, was felicitated by the Bangladesh Embassy in the gulf country today for his “exemplary good deed”.

It is almost dawn when Bangladeshi worker Billal Khan, 28, completes his 11-hour night shift on the MRT tracks, installing noise barriers along viaducts, and returns to his factory-converted dormitory in Singapore.

A woman and her daughter died and ten other people were injured after a bus plunged into a ditch beside the Natore-Pabna highway in Natore’s Baraigram upazila today.

Eight Bangladeshis, who had entered India illegally earlier this month, were handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) by India’s Border Security Force, a statement by the Indian paramilitary force said today.

Another case has been filed in connection with the speedboat capsize in Agunmukha river in Patuakhali’s Ragabali upazila.

Bangladesh today recorded 15 Covid-19 deaths and 1,436 fresh cases overnight.

A man was killed in the premises of a temple in Bogura Sadar upazila early today.

Ferry services on Shimulia-Kathalbari route was halted again this morning after it resumed for four hours only.

Internet users are likely to face reduced speed for the next five days starting today as a fibre optic cable that connects Bangladesh’s international internet gateway operators with Singapore will go through emergency maintenance, said industry operators last night.

Seventh grader Bishoka Tudu along with her sister Ashanti Tudu drew flower and leaves on the wall of their house.

Erosion by the Jhenai and Noai rivers has devoured a number of dwellings, including the houses of four freedom fighters, in Basail and Nagarpur upazilas of the district in the last few days.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud has recovered from Covid-19.

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has decided to include 43 new products under the mandatory quality certificate considering their growing demand among the people.

Professor AKM Masudur Rahman ,62, head of the medicine department of Bogura TMSS Medical College and the private Rafatullah Community Hospital, died of Covid-19 today at Square Hospital in Dhaka around 6:00pm.

Agriculture Minister Md Abdur Razzaque today said mill owners, wholesalers and middlemen are simultaneously involved in various conspiracies to make huge profits.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has arranged four special flights to Saudi Arabia to carry those Bangladeshi expatriate workers who had returned to Bangladesh through airlines apart from Biman or Saudia.

Cabinet today approved the draft of “Women and Children Repression Prevention (Amendment) Act, 2020,” to replace the ordinance okayed by the President a few days ago, keeping the provision of death penalty for rape.

The Chittagong University authorities have decided to hold admission tests to enroll first year honours students for the academic session of 2020-21 amid coronavirus pandemic.

From now on, no one will be served in government and private offices without a mask.