Renowned historian and Dhaka University Professor Muntassir Mamoon has tested positive for coronavirus.

More than one lakh doctors, nurses and staff of 69 private medical colleges and hospitals will not get any bonus during the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, but will get their full salaries.

A fugitive in a child murder case was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gazipur early today.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will provide Tk 30,000 to maximum Tk 75,000 as loans without any interest for three years to its lawyers in need, in order to tackle the ongoing crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The government has extended the ongoing nationwide shutdown for public and private offices until May 16 to contain spread of coronavirus.

A Turkish national has been found dead in a room of a residential hotel in Cox’s Bazar town.

This year’s minimum Fitra has been fixed at Tk 70 per person.

A policeman who recently tested negative for Covid-19 reportedly dies by suicide in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area.

Kotwali Police Station in Rangpur city has been put under lockdown as its officer-in-charge tested positive for Covid-19.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government has decided to reopen markets before Eid-ul-Fitr and instruction has been given in this regard.

Seven youths are arrested in a case filed over killing of a schoolboy in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, police say.

Alleged grabbers of jhum land at Dhekichhara Natun Mro Para under Lama upazila in Bandarban have reportedly destroyed a banana plantation in the village.

Around 50 current and civilian members of Rapid Action Battalion-11 test positive for coronavirus in Narayanganj, one of the hotspots for the virus in the country.

The number of patients that have recovered from Covid-19 jumps from 177 to 1,063 in just one day. Why is the sudden jump in number of recovered patients?

Four days after kidnappers abducted three farmers for ransom, law enforcers have not been able to rescue any of them in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

An international tribunal has ordered Canadian company Niko Resources to compensate Bangladesh for Chhatak gas field explosion in 2005, State Minister for Power, energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid says.

In the wake of increased usage of polythene as relief bags, the Directorate of Environment (DoE) have urged the concerned authorities to switch to jute bags to protect the environment.

A man is hacked to death by rivals in a clash following a dispute over the lease of a government pond in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila.

Law enforcers recover the bodies of two newborn babies from a dustbin in Cocacola area of Pragati Sarani in Dhaka.

Nine members of fire service and civil defence, including a deputy assistant director, have so far tested Covid-19 positive.