Four retired and two serving members of the army died of Covid-19, Inter Service Public Relation Directorate says.

Almost all the Boro paddy in haor areas has been harvested despite labour shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque said today.

As part of US assistance to Bangladesh’s COVID-19 response efforts, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller and representatives of the US military’s Indo-Pacific Command hand over essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD).

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) bans 43 products of different brands, including some well-known and regional ones.

The Dhaka University authorities have decided not to go for online classes before Eid-ul-Fitr as a large number of students have no or limited internet access.

A total of 829 public and private university teachers in a joint statement says that authorities of private universities should use the institutions’ reserve funds to pay salaries of their teachers and staff.

The number of Covid-19 cases in the police force is rising rapidly as 207 more cops tested positive in the last 24 hours across the country.

At least 23 prison guards and two inmates tested Covid-19 positive in different prisons across the country, a jail official says.

Two supposed activists of Awami League (AL) are killed during a clash between rival groups of the ruling party in Jhenidah’s Shailakupa upazila.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), today extended its tripartite deal with Myanmar for improving conditions in Rakhine state for Rohingyas to return and live with other communities.

Hundreds of workers of a factory in Chattogram city stage a demonstration, demanding their due salaries for last two months.

Unknown criminals brutally killed a student of class three and left the body near a canal in Jashore’s Chaugachha area this morning.

A total of 114 Bangladesh citizens, mostly students, reached Dhaka from London this morning.

The youngest son of Awami League leader and former Chattogram city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury has tested positive for Covid-19.

An alleged Rohingya drug peddler was killed in a gunfight with police at the Moragachtola area in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila earlier today.

Action will be taken against those misusing the digital security act, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim says that the government will undertake all necessary measures including providing financial aid, to compensate for losses in the sector amid the coronavirus crisis period.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says her government is gradually relaxing the nationwide shutdown -- initiated to curb the transmission of Covid-19 -- so that people can make a living.

Workers and employees of Thakuraon Sugar Mills Ltd. stage demonstration on the mill premises demanding their due salaries.

At least 72 police personnel who earlier tested Covid-19 positive have recovered and are released from the Central Police Hospital .