Rapid Action Battalion arrests cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, writer Mushtaq Ahmed, and two others -- Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, an activist of a platform called ‘Rashtrachinta’, and Minhaz Mannan Emon, a businessman -- under the Digital Security Act, allegedly for making anti-government posts on Facebook, from the capital.

Eight health staffers, including three doctors and two nurses, of Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.

The government has taken an initiative to bring back Bangladeshis stranded in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic in a chartered flight either on May 14 or 15.

Five more staffers of Sylhet Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital test positive for coronavirus after a storekeeper of the hospital was found Covid-19 positive on April 22.

The patients in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila have started getting free telemedicine services at the union parishad premises, thanks to the initiative of Kumudini Hospital.

A group of youths in Thakurgaon town are being praised for their non-profit initiative named ‘30% discount store’.

The national technical advisory committee on Covid-19 recommends reconsidering the government's decision of reopening shopping malls and other businesses, saying such a move could lead to further transmission of the deadly coronavirus.

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad says the government is in continual talks with ministers of different countries which employ migrant workers from Bangladesh regarding protection of the workers amidst the Covid-19 outbreak and keeping their labour market intact post the pandemic.

The Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) today extended the period of full waiver on the storage rent of import laden containers till May 16.

Biman and US-Bangla Airlines are likely to operate 10 more special flights from India to bring back Bangladeshi nationals stuck in the neighbouring country for over one-and-a-half-months following Covid-19 pandemic, the Bangladesh High Commission in India says.

Eight more garment factory workers tested positive for Covid-19 in Savar, raising the total number of infected RMG workers in Savar upazila with coronavirus to 20.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, in line with the government's decision, extends the ongoing closure of all courts across the country, including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court, till May 16 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Four ready-made garment workers, who tested positive for Covid-19 in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila, have returned to Gazipur to join work.

Workers of a readymade garment factory stage a demonstration in Savar’s Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital, demanding arrears and protesting the prolonged closure of the factory in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

All educational institutions will remain closed till May 30, on the occasion of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr, says secondary and higher education secretary Mahbub Hossain.

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service.

Two officials of Sonali Bank’s Nandigram branch in Bogura were stabbed by muggers on the Natore-Bogura highway in Shajahanpur upazila of the district earlier today.

On May 4, Mission Save Bangladesh in association with The Daily Star and Samakal arranged an hour-long live session on “Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility during Covid-19”. The panel of experts for the discussion comprised of: Yasir Azman, CEO, Grameenphone Limited, Mominul Islam, managing director and CEO, IPDC Finance Limited and Sabbir Hasan Nasir, executive director, ACI Logistics Limited (Shwapno). They discussed on some of the key aspects of this issue.

Kishore Kumar Das, founder of Bidyanondo Foundation, has announced that he will no longer remain chairperson of the volunteer organisation.

India will take back its nationals, who are stranded in Bangladesh during the ongoing shutdown enforced due to the coronavirus pandemic, by air.