Health Minister Zahid Maleque says that the readymade garment factories will be operated by strictly maintaining health rules for the sake of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Armed people recently tried to storm Michigan state governor’s office to force him to withdraw lockdown. In the US, there is debate about whether to follow science and continue the lockdown or withdraw it and resume economic activities.

221 Bangladeshi nationals return home from India on two special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines after being stranded in the neighbouring country for more than one and half months due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

At least 211 people are killed in road accidents across the country in one month of the ongoing shutdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) have issued a statement asking all its staff -- faculty members, physicians, officials and employees of the university -- to not to give any statements before media without taking prior permission from the concerned authority.

The prisons authorities are set to free 385 more convicted prisoners today as part of government’s early release plan to ease accommodation crisis and minimise Covid-19 risk in the crowded prisons.

Convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam's lawyers have prepared a 26-page review petition containing 14 grounds for seeking reconsideration of the Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali.

One hundred and thirteen police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 across the country since yesterday noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

The government has decided to arrange a special chartered flight to bring back Bangladeshi citizens stranded in the United Kingdom following the suspension of international flights between Dhaka and London in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Fifty-three days after his disappearance, photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol has been found in Benapole.

Three journalists are arrested in Narsingdi in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for publishing a quote of a police official without talking to him.

Private universities seek a stimulus package from the government to shore them up amid closure of these institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A female assistant commissioner (AC) of Jamalpur Sadar and six others are diagnosed to be positive for the coronavirus, raising the total confirmed cases in the district to 74.

Southeast Bank Limited’s Khatunganj branch in Chattogram will be put under lockdown starting Sunday after the in-charge of security at the bank was found infected with Covid-19.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called upon the government to ensure free and unrestricted discharge of professional functions for media.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has formed a committee that will supervise validation of the home-grown rapid test kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.

318 Bangladeshi citizens return home on two separate special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and US-Bangla Airlines after being stranded in India for over a month due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Import and export between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port resumed after its closure for a month following the Covid-19 outbreak.

Reeling from a severe cash crunch amid global air travel restrictions owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Biman Bangladesh Airlines finally gets the approval for a loan of Tk 1,000 crore from Sonali Bank.