Farmers at Nawdabas village in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram are worried as Paddy, fruit trees, bamboo clusters and betel nuts have been severely damaged due to toxic smoke from nearby brick kilns.

Serious river erosion at the onset of the monsoon brings woe to people living on the bank of the Jamuna and Brahmaputra rivers in Tangail and Kurigram districts.

The High Court has granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Central Jail Sohel Rana Biswas in a money-laundering case.

The High Court has upheld a lower court order that granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty in a corruption case involving Tk 9.28 crore.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed a High Court order that had directed the authorities concerned to take legal action over death of patients due to negligence in providing treatment.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh says that it would take two to three more days to enforce complete lockdown in red zone areas.

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) sacks 10 physicians because they refused to join a coronavirus isolation centre built by the city corporation at Agrabad Express Road to treat Covid-19 patients.

A virtual court today could not show photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act as he was yet to be brought to Dhaka Central Jail from Jashore jail.

Awami League MP and former chief whip of parliament Abdus Shahid tested positive for Covid-19 today.

As the Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the world, it has also induced countless rare incidents. Whilst the virus is trying to defeat humanity, people are fighting against it -- setting examples of solidarity. The volunteers of Quantum Foundation in Pabna have set such an example.

British citizen Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join ISIS in February 2015, has no Bangladeshi citizenship rights, the foreign ministry said in a statement today.

Members of Kotwali police under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) starts home delivery of medicines to ensure city dwellers get their medicines at fair prices and do not have to get out of the house.

A police sub-inspector and his associate are caught red-handed with 11,600 pieces of yaba while selling the drugs to narcotics dealers in Mohamamdpur area of the capital.

Mukabbir Khan, member of the parliament from Sylhet-2 constituency, who is admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka yesterday tested positive for coronavirus.

The world is grappling to fight and overcome the coronavirus outbreak. But there is still no effective treatment or vaccine. The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasised on social distancing and self-isolation as an effective way to control the outbreak. And these measures of social distancing and lockdown have been implemented in all countries affected by coronavirus.

Flight operations on international routes, except to China, resumed today on a limited scale after over three months’ suspension -- to and from Bangladesh -- due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thirteen judges and 26 staff members of lower courts across the country have tested positive for coronavirus till today.

A total of 305 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in United Arab Emirates, South Korea and India due to the coronavirus lockdown, returned home by three separate special flights today.

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, has called for supporting the migrants and remittance-dependent communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Bidyanondo Foundation has started preparing a facility to turn it into a field hospital to treat the increasing number of Covid-19 patients in Chattogram.