With cases of Covid-19 showing no sign of decline in the country, traders and buyers at Barobabazar goat market in Jhenidah town, like elsewhere in the country, continue to conduct business without maintaining any health measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic.

Jadukata, a transboundary river originating from Khasi Hills of India and flowing through Sunamganj’s Tahirpur and Bishwamvarpur upazilas, is famed for its scenic beauty.

Police have recovered the body of a schoolboy two days after he was abducted from near his home in Shariatpur’s Jajira upazila.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Md Mahabubor Rahman has made a full recovery from coronavirus after 19 days of treatment.

Local journalists today formed a human chain in Habiganj demanding withdrawal of a case filed against two reporters under the Digital Security Act (DSA) on March 15.

Many students in the country’s remote areas are deprived of TV and internet facilities, and hence they are unable to access the classes.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has recovered from Covid-19 after 11 days of treatment at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder says the government will be in a tough position if anyone is found involved in increasing rice price through malpractices during the precarious coronavirus situation.

Several thousand workers, mostly women, of Hong Kong-based wig factory Evergreen BD Ltd in Nilphamari’s Uttara EPZ, have set fire to the factory and other infrastructures protesting the “long-time oppressive measures” of the factory authority.

The national death rate from Covid-19 infection is around 1.3 percent but in police force it is only 0.5 percent as standard treatment facilities have been ensured for personnel in police hospitals.

Two Bangladeshis were allegedly injured by BSF at the border of Chuadanga on Friday night. Of them one had severe injuries from a bayonet, said a doctor at the Chuadanga Sadar Hospital.

Education Minister Dipu Moni today said that the government is considering cutting down exam days and subjects of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations that had been postponed due to the coronavirus crisis.

Around 78 shops and houses in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban have been burnt to ashes in a devastating fire.

“Open the packet and put on the card around the neck and it will work as a disinfectant.”

Another staffer of Bangladesh Police dies from a Covid-19 infection at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to launch an enquiry into corruption allegations against 30 Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and 64 members.

Excessive rainfall in Meghalaya and Assam of India and Bangladesh’s north-eastern parts trigger flash floods in the low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj districts.

The lone accused in Jubo League activist Mosaddekur Rahman murder case is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Chattogram’s Satkania upazila.

A Bangladeshi worker in Singapore who came close to death a few times defies the odds and has been discharged after five months from hospital.

With cross-border trade slowing down at Petrapole-Benapole border due to coronavirus, a consignment of nearly 1,100 tonnes of sponge iron has left for Bangladesh using the river route from Kolkata to Narayanganj for the first time, an official has said.