Law Minister Anisul Huq distributes relief materials worth Tk 2.81 crore among 40,000 poor and helpless families at his Kasba and Akhaura constituency in Brahmanbaria since March 24 to tackle the crisis stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.

The government is releasing 17 prisoners, who were serving time for minor offences, ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Some 87 percent of returnee migrant workers do not have income opportunities now amid the shutdown enforced to contain coronavirus spread, says a survey report of Brac Migration Programme.

An additional secretary of the government, who was infected with Covid-19, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital this morning.

Egg collectors in Halda River have been delighted by what is this decade’s record haul of eggs in the lone natural breeding ground of carp-like fish in South Asia.

The fisheries and livestock ministry asks the disaster management and relief ministry to provide financial support, including interest-free loans, to farmers and entrepreneurs to offset their losses caused by cyclone Amphan.

Police recovered a bullet-hit body of a youth, aged around 24, at a Jaoban area, adjacent to Cox’s Bazar Beach early this morning.

Police arrested an 80-year-old man on charges of raping a six-year-old in Narayanganj Sadar upazila early today.

People have started leaving the capital for their village homes today for their Eid-ul-Fitr holidays amid the nationwide shutdown enforced to curb the transmission of Covid-19.

A total of 731 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Maldives, India and Canada amid suspension on international flights due to Covid-19 pandemic, return home on five separate special flights.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun says that people can go to their village homes on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr using “personal” vehicles following health directives.

Fish farmers of Bagerhat suffer losses worth Tk two crore ninety lakh after Cyclone Amphan washed away almost 4,635 fish and shrimp enclosures in the district, according to the estimation by the authorities.

Kamrun Nahar Putul, a former Awami League lawmaker of the Bogura-Joypurhat reserved seat for women, tested Covid-19 positive following her death at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogura.

An alleged serial rapist was killed in a “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion at Madhumita rail track area in East Tongi at Gazipur early today.

Malaysia reports 35 new coronavirus cases, including one Bangladeshi migrant, at an immigration detention centre after authorities rounded up undocumented migrants this month in areas under lockdown.

Police claim to have arrested three people, including an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC), in connection with the killing of the city corporation’s executive engineer.

Researchers in Chattogram have decoded the complete genome sequence of Covid-19 samples collected from the port city and different upazilas in the district.

The budget dialogue is a webinar series organised by the Youth Policy Forum (YPF) to analyse Bangladesh’s upcoming national budget with field experts and policy teams and for their first discussion, they covered the healthcare sector.

One lakh twenty thousand metric tonnes of mango, which amounts to ten percent of the country’s annual production, was damaged in the gusty winds brought by the mighty Cyclone Amphan.

Another police personnel who was infected with Covid-19 died in Dhaka today.