Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh extends the ongoing suspension of passenger flight operations with all countries, except China, until May 16 to contain spread of Covid-19 in the country.

The number of Covid-19 infected police personnel across the country has reached 1,153 as of this noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

Sixteen intern doctors of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College test positive for Covid-19 days after another intern doctor of the same batch was reported positive.

Gen Lab, a youth-led social enterprise, has initiated an urban art-based project -- Peace Caravan -- to inspire and educate urban youths and professionals to adapt with a sustainable, inclusive and peaceful social living through means of art and digital presence.

The counter terrorism unit claims to have arrested 17 members of JMB from the capital’s Kakrail, who were planning to join a so-called jihad after migrating into Saudi Arabia.

A journalist from Sunamganj is arrested in a case filed under Digital Security Act for allegedly posting a defamatory status on Facebook involving parliamentarian Mouazzam Hossain Ratan of Sunamganj-1 constituency.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has filed an application to show photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol arrested in a case file under the digital security act.

The government appoints 2,000 doctors as assistant surgeons in the BCS (Health) Cadre to fight the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

A 50-bed health complex in Goshairhat upazila of Shariatpur has been put under lockdown after the domestic help of a nurse there tests positive for coronavirus.

A Saudi expatriate, who died on Monday morning at his home in Enayet Bazar area of Chattogram city, is found Covid-19 positive.

Counterterrorism officials claim to have arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Neo JMB in connection with an attack on a traffic police box in Chattogram city in February this year.

Japan has extended a grant of approximately Tk 24 million to three Bangladeshi NGOs -- Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS), Prism Bangladesh Foundation (PRISM) and Trust for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (TRP).

Deputy commissioner of Habiganj district tests positive for Covid-19 and is placed in home quarantine.

President Md Abdul Hamid reappoints Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, as the chairman of Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission.

The 29th span of the much-anticipated Padma Bridge is installed, bringing 4.350 kilometers of the structure into view.

Pasturers rearing cattle for milk in Chapainawabganj are facing hardship as the demand for their product plunged following the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The government extends the ongoing suspension on all types of public transport till May 16 to check spread of Covid-19 in the country.

A 35-year-old man in Shariatpur reportedly fled his house after his samples were collected to test for Covid-19, three days before his test results comes back positive for the virus.

The government has decided to allow all markets, shops and shopping malls across the country to remain open till 4:00pm from May 10.

Bangladeshis have long wanted their own policy dialogue platform, a medium through which they can access the sort of expert, unbiased opinion that is available elsewhere in the world, such as BBC’s Hard Talks or Oxford Union style debates.