Many of the consumers, mostly from the low and fixed-income groups, have been returning home empty-handed from the Open Market Sale (OMS) outlets in Lalmonirhat town due to insufficient supply of rice against its ongoing rising demand.

About 300 weavers and over a thousand of their dependents in Debiganj upazila of Panchagarh are now facing starvation due to the countrywide shutdown since last week of March.

The ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus has brought added worry to the potters, especially earthen toy makers in Pirojpur, as the items made for sale during the Baishakhi fair will remain largely unsold due to ban on gatherings to check the infection.

A number of families in remote villages of five upazilas in Bandarban are going hungry as their food supply is dwindling and there is no sight of relief coming their way following the coronavirus shutdown.

A special committee led by Cox’s Bazar Unnayan Kotripokko (CUK) is to be formed to protect the unique biodiversity of the world’s longest sea beach in Cox’s Bazar.

A statement by Save the Children Australia said most of Bangladesh’s intensive care beds and ventilators are in major urban centres, making it difficult for remote communities to access those.

The government has started the process to execute the Supreme Court verdict that upheld the death penalty of Retd Captain Abdul Majed for killing father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975.

Starting today Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started testing for coronavirus using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Bangladesh government, is rolling out $1.5 million in emergency food support for 50,000 extremely poor urban families.

A 55-year-old woman dies with coronavirus-like symptoms in Rupsha upazila of Khulna.

People of at least 33 villages in Lalmonirhat and Moulvibazar have opted for self-lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Chattogram General Hospital (CGH), the oldest and second largest government hospital in the port city, is going to open an intensive care unit (ICU) within short time.

Habiganj police last night arrested three persons on charge of attacking members of a minority community who protested “filming three girls of the community who were bathing” in the district’s Madhabpur upazila.

The government has launched a national hotline, 333, for providing humanitarian assistance and food to the needy during the nationwide shutdown amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The government is going to purchase 28.25 lakh metric tonnes of rice and wheat in the current Boro season.

A case was filed in connection with the rape of a fifteen-year-old girl in Bagerhat’s Sadar upazila last night.

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College begins testing samples for coronavirus (Covid-19).

A 34-year-old has tested positive for coronavirus in Palash upazila of Narsingdi, the first confirmed case in the district.

A guitarist has died in Narayanganj after suffering for several days with fever, cough, cold and breathing problem.

Three more members of Tabligh Jamaat in Singair upazila of Manikganj have tested positive with coronavirus, two days after local administration locked down Singair municipality as a Tabligh Jamaat man was identified as Covid-19 positive.