A man, who was sent to Dhaka's Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital from Gazipur recently, has tested positive for coronavirus.

A rights organisation has filed a writ petition with the High Court, seeking directives on the authorities concerned to close all the courts across the country to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Navigability problem in Lohalia and Kobai rivers, two key channels of Dhaka-Patuakhali river route, remains a nuisance for operators and passengers.

Bumper yield of catkin, locally called kashia, this season has brought smiles to many farmers in Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila as they are earning a handsome profit by selling the produce at good prices due to its high demand.

Only five percent of maize or corn produced in the country are used for human consumption while the rest, a staggering 95 percent, is used as feed for poultry, fish and dairy farms.

Queues of potato growers in front of cold storages in Dinajpur have been growing in the past few days, with the price of their fresh harvest selling at less than the production cost.

A housewife was stabbed to death by a drug addict youth at Nilokhi village in Nabinagar upazila of the district on Monday night allegedly for not responding to his illicit proposal.

An elderly woman at a press conference in Lalmonirhat town on Monday alleged that her elder son drove her, her younger son and the latter’s wife out of home after physically torturing them.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina vowes to build Bangladesh as “Sonar Bangla” in the near future as Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wanted to ensure a better and decent life for the people of this country.

Islamic Foundation advises people who are returning home from abroad -- suffering from coronavirus-like symptoms such as fever, cold and cough -- to avoid going to mosques and public gatherings to contain the spread of the virus.

At least four people died and five others were injured after an under-construction gate of a college collapsed at Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila this afternoon.

Two foreign nationals -- one from the United States and another from Ivory Coast -- who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) are sent back to their respective countries as they did not have visa.

In order to make the hearing-impaired experience the powerful words and inspiration of the March 7 speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Grameenphone has released a sign language version of it.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has said decision on whether to postpone five by-elections and Chattogram City Corporation polls will be taken after assessing the effects of coronavirus across the country.

A youth from Sylhet is walking from Gopalganj’s Tungipara to Dhaka’s Dhanmondi 32 as a tribute to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth centenary.

Six Bangladeshis who returned from four different countries -- Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Italy – have been fined by mobile courts in Shariatpur and Manikganj districts for not abiding by the government mandated self-quarantine of fourteen days for all foreign returnees.

Two more persons have been infected with novel coronavirus (Covid-19), raising the number of patients to 10, IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said today.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of the birth anniversary of the great leader.

On the eve of the 100th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) underscores the need to ensure transparency in all financial transactions to uphold Bangabandhu’s ideals.

Police on Sunday night arrested three people, including a teenager, on charges of raping two girls in separate incidents in Tangail and Jashore.