At least 168 people are killed and 283 injured in 149 road crashes across the country in 13 days while travelling during the Eid-ul-Fitr festival and amid shut down, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

Ruling Awami League lawmaker Mostafizur Rahman of Chattogram-16 (Banskhali upazila) constituency is tested positive for coronavirus along with 11 other members of his family.

A local leader of Bangladesh Awami Sechchasebak League (BASL) and an accused in nine cases including one for murder, is hacked to death by miscreants in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila.

Condition of Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury is somewhat unstable, said an official of Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital today.

One person has been arrested in connection with the death of a pregnant wild elephant in the southern state of Kerala, the state forest department said today.

A complaint is lodged against a 65-year-old man with Chasra police outpost yesterday for reportedly raping a seven-year-old girl several times at Raypara village of Chasra area of Jashore.

Police arrest a union parishad member on charge of raping a housewife at Shiddipasha union under Ovoynagar upazila in Jashore last night.

Police have recovered the bodies of two women from a shallow well in Naogaon’s Badalgachhi upazila a day after they went missing.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved a proposal to recruit some 3,000 medical technologists, technicians and cardiographers soon to improve the Covid-19 test and healthcare services.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, jointly with the CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation Patrick Verkooijen, has written a piece for The Guardian where she said Bangladesh can offer lessons for others facing dangers like super-cyclone Amphan and Covid-19.

Miscreants set fire to a poultry farm at Amtail village of Paschim Juri union in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila on Monday night, burning over 2500 layers.

Super cyclonic storm Amphan last month left a trail of devastation in Barishal division. Vast swathes of agricultural land including chilli gardens in the division sustained extensive damage as the tropical cyclone pounded the country’s coastal areas.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for the “rapid invention” of newer vaccines to avert pandemics like coronavirus (Covid-19), saying that vaccination has proved to be one of the most important means of combating contagious diseases.

Seven people, including three children, have been killed and four others injured in separate lightning strikes in Habiganj and Bogura districts.

Cites factories running at 55pc capacity as reason; BGMEA installs 3 PCR labs for Covid-19 test of workers

Owner of the Rana Plaza building that collapsed on April 24, 2013 -- leaving 1,136 people dead in the worst industrial accident in the country in Savar -- dies after being infected with Covid-19.

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), a rights organisation, today served a legal notice to the government requesting it to take necessary steps to ensure treatment of Covid-19 patients at all hospitals and clinics across the country.

Awami League lawmaker Faridul Haque Khan Dulal from Jamalpur-2 constituency is among 51 who tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours in the district.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today said Bangladesh will survive only if Sundarbans survives and called for effective implementation of constitutional and legal obligations, especially environmental laws for the protection the forest.

According to Rab, Kamal Uddin alias Haji Kamal (55) has trafficked more than 400 people to Libya over the last decade. But locals of Kushtia Sadar, where Haji Kamal is from, claim they were unaware of his “misdeeds”.