A woman councillor of Gazipur City Corporation is arrested for allegedly assaulting two traffic constables at Chandana Intersection in the city.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) terms the Kurigram journalist’s arrest and his imprisonment illegal and demanded immediate inquiry into the matter.

Two new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in Bangladesh.

A mobile court has sentenced a Manikganj homeopath to six months in jail for claiming to have a cure for coronavirus (COVID-19) and trying to market the products.

Human Rights Watch said Bangladesh authorities should immediately locate journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, who has been missing from Dhaka since Tuesday.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University chalks out elaborate programmes, including free medical treatment, to mark the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children's Day on March 17.

Five people were killed and 25 others injured in a collision between a bus and truck on the Dhaka-Khulna highway this afternoon.

Dhaka University’s pharmacy department has started making hand sanitiser following an ongoing shortage of the product at stores due to coronavirus panic.

Colleagues and peers of the Kurigram journalist who was arrested and sentenced to one-year imprisonment earlier today strongly protested the incident.

Bangladeshi expatriates in Canada will organise a three-day voluntary blood donation programme from March 17 to mark Mujib Borsho.

Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals, quarantined in the suburbs of the Indian capital for 14 days, arrive home.

Three people involved with the MN Larma faction of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) have been abducted, police said.

A child is trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram.

A mobile court -- under a taskforce of Kurigram district administration -- sentences a journalist to one-year imprisonment for “possessing drugs”, after he was arrested from his house.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines suspends its flight to Kathmandu for March 15 and 17, as the Himalayan country stops on-arrival visa over fear of coronavirus spread.

A man and his wife are burnt in an explosion “caused by a gas line leak” at a house in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj.

A freedom fighter and his younger brother are killed in a road accident in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard claim to have recovered two lakh yaba pills in a raid conducted at Patenga beach in Chattogram.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh forms a special taskforce comprising several groups for smooth operation of health screening of all in-bound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka.

Indian immigration authorities of Changrabandha land port today wrote to Bangladesh Burimari land port asking it not to allow any Bangladeshis to cross to India through the port in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus.