Over the last couple of months, mango buds are falling off trees in mango orchards across Chapainawabganj -- which is considered the mango capital of the country.

Around 8000 bus workers in Tangail are passing hard days with their families as they have been off the roads because of the countrywide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Ten more people have been arrested in the past 24 hours in connection with last month's mayhem by Hefajat-e-Islam supporters in Brahmanbaria, police said today.

Today is Jathibhanga mass killing day.

A local influential person has cut off soil from the approach road of a bridge on a government road at Chatutia village of Dhanbari municipality in Tangail, causing suspension of people and vehicular movement on the bridge and sufferings for locals.

Cases of diarrhoea have risen alarmingly in seven upazilas of the district with 683 people have been infected in a week and the doctors say the situation is worsening.

Like in many places of the country, youths in Netrakona’s Kendua upazila have also come together with a helping hand for the needy amid the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.

An apprentice lawyer was killed in a road accident in Feni’s Lalpur area on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway this afternoon.

A senior assistant superintendent of police was transferred while an inspector and sub-inspector were withdrawn yesterday over allegations of concealing 88 bottles of phensedyl seized during a drive on April 3.

A 19-rear-old was arrested in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila yesterday in a case filed under the Digital Security Act over a derogatory Facebook comment about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Police early yesterday recovered the decomposed body of a youth, abducted from Cumilla on March 22, from remote Shingjiri area in Lama upazila.

Amid the gloomy atmosphere of the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc across the country, a medical house call service for Covid-19 patients was inaugurated recently in Bagerhat Sadar upazila.

Due to sociocultural factors, women’s involvement in the Liberation War of 1971 was mostly indirect. But when their pride and dignity were being desecrated repeatedly by Pakistani occupation forces, women in Char Gokunda village of Sadar upazila rose to the occasion and took part in an ambush on their oppressors.

All the jute plants are drying in fields in three unions of Saltha upazila as almost all the men of the three unions have gone into hiding following cases filed in connection with the violence on April 5.

Family members of a man who died in Chattogram early Tuesday said he was a employee of SS Power I Plant at Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila and succumbed to bullet wounds sustained during police firing at the plant on April 17.

Another worker who was injured in police shooting at SS Power I Plant in Gondamara union of Chattogram’s Banskhali upazila succumbed to his injuries today.

An imam in Bogura's Dhunat upazila was sacked over his Facebook post in favour of Hefajat-e-Islam's Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque.

Hundreds of flower growers in Jhenidah are incurring losses because of transport disruption caused by Covid-19 shutdown.

Pumpkin farmers in Lalmonirhat’s Teesta char (land emerged from riverbed) areas and Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj are facing odds due to transport problem amid the outbreak of Covid-19.

The number of people suffering from diarrhoea in different upazilas of the district has increased in the last few day.