As part of its humanitarian effort, Grameen Shakti head office staffers have started providing food support to some 1,750 underprivileged families across the country.

A total of 332 more Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 pandemic, return home from New Delhi and Chennai on two chartered flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and US-Bangla airlines respectively.

The second of the two men shot by the gunman of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozzammel Haque in Gazipur dies at a hospital.

The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims engage in self-purification through fasting and abstinence, begins in the country tomorrow as the new crescent moon is sighted in Bangladesh sky today.

Save Youth Bangladesh, a Dhaka University (DU) based youth platform, offers 32 youth researchers from nine public universities to conduct social research on different aspects including impact of covid-19 in the country.

Grameen Bank provides relief materials in Jamalpur to 815 ultra-poor elderly people, mostly women, who are hit hard due to the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

Despite showing no symptoms, four members of a family at Sakhipur upazila in Tangail district tested positive for coronavirus today.

Two friends succumbed to their injuries earlier today after being stabbed by unidentified miscreants on Thursday. The altercation began when the duo spoke up against the miscreants blowing smoke on their faces at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram district amid the countrywide shutdown over coronavirus.

A grocery shop owner is electrocuted and three others of a family, including two children, were injured while they were flying a kite on their rooftop in Savar’s Ashulia area.

A woman who was reported to have fled from MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital after developing coronavirus-like symptoms says she had in fact been discharged from the hospital.

A 70-year-old beggar in Sherpur has donated his three-year savings to the UNO’s relief fund to support poor amid the countrywide shutdown to combat Covid-19.

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A total of 177 more British nationals, who were stranded in Bangladesh due to the suspension of flights following coronavirus outbreak, leave Dhaka on a special British Airways flight.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain extends the ongoing closure for all the courts across the country till May 5 in line with the government decision for extension of closures of offices due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Only twelve people, including two hafez, will be able to attend the Tarabi and Esha prayers in each mosque during the month of Ramadan, the religious affairs ministry says in a directive.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines seeks Tk 1,500 crore as loan from Sonali Bank to meet its essential costs including paying salaries to its several thousand employees, amid the coronavirus pandemic that has grounded airlines all across the globe.

Following requests from various countries, Bangladesh has decided to bring back migrant workers but after holding a few multi and bilateral dialogues, Expatriate’s Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed says.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry suspends seven Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and three members for irregularities in distribution of relief among poor, during the ongoing shutdown.

When a 38-year-old school from Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila started showing symptoms of coronavirus back in April 5, she immediately locked herself up in her room, fearing she was indeed infected.

Three people, including a member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) are injured as Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel fire rubber bullets at zero point of Burimari land port in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila.