The government will start a special open market sale (OMS) of coarse rice at Tk 10 per kg from Sunday (April 5) in all cities and district towns to ensure food for the urban poor amid the countrywide shutdown.

Marking World Autism Awareness Day, amid the shutdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak, Sylhet Art and Autism Foundation launches an online helpline for children with special needs.

A 49-year-old Oman returnee, who was under home quarantine till March 31, dies at home in Dowarabazar upazila under Sunamganj.

A local Jubo League leader is shot dead at Headmanpara in Kaptai upazila of Rangamati.

Former land minister and lawmaker of Pabna-4 constituency, Shamsur Rahman Sherif passes away at a private hospital in Dhaka. He was 80.

A Bangladeshi national is shot dead by Border Security Forces (BSF) on Indian territory along the Thakurgaon border.

A case is filed against suspended inspector (investigation) of Amtali Police Station, Manoranjan Mistry, in connection with the death of a man at the police station on March 27.

The biker, who allegedly ran into Assistant Commissioner (land) Kazi Nazib Hasan while he was on duty in Jhikargachha upazila in Jashore, has been arrested.

Two suspected criminals are killed in separate gunfights with police in Atrai and Patnitala upazilas of Naogaon, says police.

A total of 327 Japanese citizens leave Dhaka on a special flight arranged by the Japanese government for those who opted to return home amid the coronavirus outbreak.

A journalist is physically assaulted allegedly by a union parishad chairman and his associates for publishing a Facebook Live video depicting irregularity in relief distribution in Habiganj.

At least 25 establishments, including learning centres and accommodation for Chakma and Rohingya people, shops and clinics, are gutted in a fire that broke out at Puntibuniya Rohingya Camp of Hoaikyang union of Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

Two people suffering from fever, runny nose and cough die in the isolation unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

A 16-year-old girl who tested negative for Covid-19 has to return home in ailing condition after being refused admission by four hospitals.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded that the authorities take measures to ensure accountability in public procurement amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Cox’s Bazar Medical College (CBMC) is going to start testing samples for coronavirus infections from tomorrow.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) today urged the government to set up a special ‘Leave No One Behind Fund’ to ease the suffering of marginalised communities and workers in the informal sector affected by the shutdown over coronavirus crisis.

A fourth grade student was kidnapped, and raped for 25 days until the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) rescued the girl from Gurudaspur upazila of Natore district.

One more child dies of measles in remote Udolchhari Chakma Para under Sajek union of Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila taking the death toll in the recent measles outbreak in Chattogram Hill Tracts to 10.

The door of a helicopter fell on a house at Begunteuri village in Manikganj’s Singir upazila today.