One can only hope, is what one would remark once learning of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s revenue target for the upcoming fiscal year, due to begin from July 1.

The country’s first metro rail project, Mass Rapid Transit-6, may miss its completion deadline in December next year if the construction suffers any further delays.

Ninety-five percent of the people surveyed across the country suffered a loss of income due to shutdown and social distancing measures enforced by the government in late March to contain the spread of the Covid-19, says a Brac survey.

Thousands of critical cancer, heart, kidney and liver patients have their treatments on hold as medical tests they require have been off for lack of radioactive isotope for the last two months.

Bangladesh has written to Kuwait seeking to know why lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam, also known as Kazi Papul, has been arrested.

Police arrested nine people, including a ruling Awami League leader and a journalist, on Sunday night on charge of attacking the house of Faridpur AL president.

The health ministry will not see a significant rise in allocation in the upcoming budget amid Covid-19 pandemic mainly due to its lack of capacity to utilise funds, say planning ministry officials.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has filed a case against the owner of Elan Corporation for importing “substandard” KN-95 masks by showing “fake documents”.

Ten countries of South Asia, Middle East and Latin America have seen a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases over the last couple of weeks, according to World Health Organization data.

A glimmer of hope just appeared for the bruised and battered economy: exports seem to be looking up.

Faruk Mia came to Dhaka on Saturday, all the way from Narsingdi, to buy an oxygen cylinder for his 65-year-old ailing father as it could not be managed in his district.

A police official was arrested in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila last night for allegedly assaulting a farmer who died of his injuries on Wednesday evening at the Dhaka Pangu hospital.

Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing, who tested Covid-19 positive, was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday, said Aung Swi Prue Marma, civil surgeon of Bandarban.

Transnational human traffickers used the United Arab Emirates as a major transit point to send Bangladeshi job-seekers to Libya via Amman, according to officials of the Detective Branch of police.

The country yesterday recorded 42 deaths due to Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day.

A Bangladeshi lawmaker has been arrested in Kuwait over alleged involvement in human trafficking and money laundering.

Facing setbacks in its plan to enforce containment zones in four districts from yesterday, the government is now working to impose a total lockdown in areas that will be marked red and partially in the ones marked yellow in a day or two.

Demonstrators filled the streets in major cities around the world yesterday, staging some of the most peaceful protests against racism following the death of unarmed African American George Floyd at the hands of police.

In the wake of rising Covid-19 deaths and infections across the country, the government today starts enforcing containment zones on a pilot basis in some areas of four districts, including Dhaka.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Shafiqul Islam has sought transfer of a joint commissioner of the unit on charge of offering him bribe.