Some ruling and opposition party lawmakers have lent their support to an increase in taxes on tobacco and tobacco products, saying it would save lives, decrease healthcare costs and increase revenue.

A 100-year-old woman in Bangladesh has survived Covid-19 infection despite being a heart disease patient and suffering from old-age complications, family members say.

Police recovered the beheaded body of a youth from Telikhali village in Sadar upazila on Sunday.

Two people, including a construction worker, died after inhaling toxic gas inside a septic tank in Gafargaon upazila of the district yesterday.

Within a year of birth, children are vaccinated for various diseases as a preventive measure. But Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) is being disrupted here this time due to coronavirus outbreak. Children and pregnant women are not going to the EPI centres to avoid Covid-19 transmission.

At a time when nature flourishes amid man’s reduced activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, the chairman of Mahilara union parishad (UP) under Barishal’s Gournadi upazila has taken a novel initiative in memory of those who died due to the highly contagious disease.

As many as 43 staffers and officials of the Parliament Secretariat have been infected with Covid-19 so far at a time when the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban gears up to go into budget session.

The civil aviation ministry plans to resume regular flight operations on international routes on a limited scale from the third week of the current month.

A total 3,049 Bangladesh Police personnel have so far recovered from Covid-19 across the country.

Two shops in Chattogram have been fined Tk 100,000 each by two separate mobile courts for selling oxygen cylinders at a high profit margin.

Operation of ferries, launches, speed boats and trawlers will remain suspended on Shimulia-Kathalbari route from 11:00am to 7:00pm on Wednesday.

The High Court asks the government what Covid-19 patients were being prescribed centrally and how the patients were being monitored across the country.

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun said those involved in human trafficking and the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya will not be spared and appropriate legal action will be taken against them.

The Bangladesh government has written to Kuwait seeking to know why Mohammad Shahid Islam, popularly known as Kazi Papul, has been arrested.

Ten ventilators and an ambulance with modern equipment will be provided to Cox’s Bazar Medical College Hospital for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in the district.

The cabinet has in principle approved the draft of “The Bangladesh Bank (Amendment) Act, 2020” by abolishing the ‘proviso’ of the 65-year age limit for the governor of the central bank.

The local administration declares Nohakhali sadar and Begumganj upazilas as red zones and imposed lockdowns there for the next 15 days from tomorrow to contain the spread of Covid-19.

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking directives on collection of tuition fees by private educational institutions under the monthly payment order (MPO) facility during the closure enforced by the coronavirus pandemic.

A Dhaka court today placed two people on a five-day remand each in a case filed over the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28.

Three people, including a minor, died with coronavirus-like symptoms at Khulna Medical College Hospital early today.