Police today recovered the bodies of a mother and her three children from Sreepur upazila of Gazipur.

A total of 218 members of police were tested positive for Covid-19 across the country while discharging their duties, according to a tally of Police Headquarters.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) today ordered the authorities concerned to transfer all types of import-laden containers from Chattogram port to 19 private inland container depots (ICDs) in the district.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal requests Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to provide continuous support to minimise the effects of the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak and the resultant nationwide shutdown.

Two doctors working in Manikganj were found infected with Covid-19 and now remain under quarantine in their Dhaka residences.

As the Covid-19 pandemic cripples the world and its economy with thousands of cases every day, the biggest victims are the poor, who cannot afford to stay home. Keeping them in mind, independent filmmakers from Bangladesh and beyond have created ‘Film for Humanity’.

Ensuring safety of workers, factories can resume operations.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to director general of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad, asking him to step down from his post as “he has failed to take necessary measures to protect people from the outbreak of coronavirus”.

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Birdem General Hospital has been closed after four patients undergoing treatment there tested positive for coronavirus.

A service called “Doctors’ Safety Chamber” has been set up in front of Narail Sadar Hospital to ensure safety of its doctors, nurses and other staff members working on the front lines, taking care of coronavirus patients.

The World Health Organization warns that the coronavirus crisis will not end any time soon, with many countries only in the early stages of the fight, as the global death toll surpassed 180,000.

Former cabinet secretary and former chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) Saadat Hussein passes away at a hospital in Dhaka.

Four people, including a physician, test positive for coronavirus according to tests conducted at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID).

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) asks all teachers of secondary schools to lend farmers a hand in an attempt to speed up the harvest of Boro paddy as flash flood can occur in several districts at any time.

A doctor and seven medical staff of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) test positive for Covid-19.

The government forms a high-level taskforce to ensure proper disbursement of funds from the stimulus package that the prime minister announced and on setting factory reopening dates to keep the economy’s wheels turning.

Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association (BSAA) calls upon its member shipping agents to extend office hours from tomorrow to meet import delivery orders (D/Os) in the usual manner.

A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrests a man in the capital in connection with spreading “defamatory” remarks about Md Moyeen Uddin, the first doctor in the country to die of Covid-19 on April 15.

Politics, economics, and sociological journal Sarbojonkotha proposes an alternative action plan to the government to manage the ongoing public health and economic crisis.

The remittance flow to Bangladesh is projected to decline by 22 percent due to the economic crisis induced by Covid-19 pandemic and shutdown, according to a World Bank report.