Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh has directed all airlines not to carry passengers from European countries, except the UK, to Bangladesh from 12:00pm tomorrow till March 31.

A patient with coronavirus-like symptoms escapes from Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the government is mulling over closing educational institutions in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

Sampadak Parishad (Editors’ Council) demands withdrawal of a case filed against journalist Ariful Islam, who was arrested from home in the dead of night and jailed for one-year.

The ministry of home affairs creates 215 new posts of superintendent of police in its organogram.

A key leader of the militant group Neo JMB Jahangir Alam, alias Rajib alias Andhi, also a plotter of the Holey Artisan Café attack, has been given the death penalty by a Rajshahi court for the 2016 murder of Hindu priest Joggeswar Dasadhikari Roy of Panchagarh.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh government sign a €360 million ($400 million) loan agreement to help upgrade the Dhaka-Northwest international trade corridor in Bangladesh.

The High Court today wanted to know the offence, based on which Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam was sentenced to one-year imprisonment.

The deputy commissioner of Kurigram may be withdrawn as evidence of irregularities were found against her, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain has said.

A former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League has died two hours after he was picked up by Damurhuda police in Chuadanga.

An accused in several drug cases is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Chougachcha upazila of Jashore.

A Kurigram court today granted bail to journalist Ariful Islam, who was arrested from home in the dead of night and jailed for one year on charge of "possessing narcotics".

A man and two madrasa students are killed and 15 others injured when a bus carrying them plunges into a ditch, as a truck rams into it on the Dhaka-Sirajganj Highway in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj.

A man who had suffered burn injuries in an explosion "caused by a gas line leak" at a house in Narayanganj yesterday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

A four-year-old boy was trampled to death by wild elephants in Chattogram’s Boalkhali upazila early yesterday.

A Class X student of Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh has remained missing since he went to Dhaka on March 4.

Armed criminals abducted three activists of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS-MN Larma faction) from Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila early yesterday.

Forest department recovered a total of 23 acres of forestland from grabbers and demolished many banana and pineapple orchards under Gachhabari forest area in Madhupur upazila in the last couple of days.

Unregistered 10-wheeled tipper trucks engaged by illegal sand traders have been causing havoc in Bhuapur upazila for a long time due to indifference of the authorities concerned.

A bridge built seven months ago at Poltadanga Point of the Mathabhanga River in Chuadanga’s Alamdanga upazila cannot be opened for vehicular movement due to lack of approach road on one side.