BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has been released this afternoon, 25 months after she landed in jail in a graft case.

Brig Gen AKM Mostofa Kamal, inspector general of prisons, said, “We have received copy of the release order. We’ll act accordingly.”

A 35-kilometre long tailback on Dhaka-Tangail highway that was created yesterday evening due to a homebound rush of people leaving the capital, started easing since 10:30am today, reports our Tangail correspondent quoting law enforcement officials.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to be released from prison shortly, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this afternoon.

At least six people were killed and 15 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Sherpur Upazila in Bogura district this morning.

A suspected robber, who was an accused in at least nine cases, was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Kushtia’s Sadar upazila early today.

An elderly man has died after being denied treatment at several local hospitals in Sylhet due to the fear of coronavirus, civil surgeon of Sylhet said.

Law enforcers placed an apartment in Chattogram’s Chandgaon and an entire building in the port city’s Bakalia area on lockdown last night after a person tested positive for coronavirus.

One more Tripura child died of measles in remote Lungthian Para of Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila early hours yesterday, raising the total death toll due to the disease to seven.

As demand for protective masks soared amid impending fear for the spread of coronavirus across the country, more than three dozen small tailoring houses in Saidpur upazila town have been producing around 12 thousand affordable face masks.

Cultivation of harmful crop tobacco continues with increasing trend in Lalmonirhat as growers are getting lucrative offers from different tobacco companies.

Farmers under the coverage of the Teesta irrigation project of Water Development Board (WDB) have been ditching Boro for other crops that require lesser irrigation and produce higher profits.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says China will provide Bangladesh with coronavirus testing kits, personal protection equipment (PPE), and other medical equipment as gift to Bangladesh on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day.

A woman has been beaten up by family members of a UAE returnee in Noakhali's Companiganj upazila as she allegedly informed police that the returnee was violating home quarantine.

Three upazilas of Bandarban -- Lama, Alikadom and Naikhongchhari -- are declared to be under lockdown from 8pm today, according to district officials.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) decides to use its water cannons, usually used to disperse crowds, to spray disinfectants in the capital amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Smart Jacket (BD) Limited, a Chattogram based manufacturer located at Chattogram Export Processing Zone (CEPZ), is making one lakh sets of surgical jackets for doctors to combat the coronavirus after getting orders from the Health Ministry.

Indian immigration at Petrapole checkpost refuses entry to seventy Indian nationals returning from Bangladesh’s Dhaka through the Benapole checkpost.

Intern doctors of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital in Sylhet are on strike in demand of personal protective equipment (PPE).

As the government today decided to release Khaleda Zia for six months on humanitarian grounds and considering her age, BNP asks leaders and activists of the party and its associate bodies not to gather at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University where she is under treatment.