The High Court will deliver its order tomorrow on a writ petition filed seeking its directives on the government to ensure that no government or private hospital refuses treatment to any patient -- infected with Covid-19 or not -- across the country.

Defence secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, who is fighting against Covid-19 at the ICU of Combined Military Hospital (CMH), has been promoted to senior secretary.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah, who passed away last night, was infected with Covid-19.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah passed away tonight after going into cardiac arrest.

Police recovered the body on an elderly woman from her house in Sadar upazila yesterday.

Galarkati Bridge on Durakuti-Chaparhat road connects two unions, Kamalabari and Chalbala, in Aditmari and Kaliganj upazilas.

Residents of Shahjadpur and Chowhali upazilas in Sirajganj are now facing two back-to-back calamities -- first the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and now the devastation of their homesteads and croplands by the Jamuna.

A team of dedicated people belonging to Quantum Foundation (QF) are performing funerals of Covid-19 victims, setting a laudable example of humanity at a time when even family members sometimes become too scared to reach the deceased’s body.

A man was killed in an attack by his neighbours allegedly over a trifling matter in Phulbaria upazila of the district yesterday.

The chief physician of the intensive care unit (ICU) of BRB Hospital Ltd Dr Sazzad Hossain died in Dhaka tonight after being infected with coronavirus.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has recovered after being infected with coronavirus, Dr Bijon Kumar Sil said today.

“We have plenty of relatives and are surrounded by neighbours. Yet, when people heard uncle died with coronavirus, no one came to see him. No one even came for the burial. But Councillor Khorshed was there by our side, that too on a night riddled with gusty winds and heavy rain. It is impossible to find another person like him.”

Several thousand people denounce police violence in an anti-racism protest in central Paris as a wave of anger continued to sweep the world following the death of African American George Floyd.

A total of 751 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Dubai by two special flights today.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, arranged by the Bangladesh government at the initiative of Bangladesh High Commission, London, departed Heathrow for Dhaka 10:30am local time, carrying 153 Bangladeshis.

A Dhaka court today placed a member of a gang -- linked to the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28 -- on a three-day remand.

Two Bangladeshi teenagers return home from India, where they had been jailed for two years for illegally entering the country.

As coronavirus cases and fatalities continue to rise in Bangladesh, the government has taken all necessary preparations to bring hotspots (red zone) under lockdown and will declare closure in those areas to prevent entry and exit.

Tributes and condolences continued to pour in for veteran politician and Awami League presidium member Mohammed Nasim, who breathed his last during undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital this morning.

Just one day after the death of an elephant by electrocution in Teknaf, another Asian elephant has been found dead at a streambed in Fasiakhali union of Lama upazila under Bandarban district.