The authorities of Chittagong University today decided to postpone all exams indefinitely due to the deteriorating Covid-19 situation in the country.

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov has lauded the success Bangladesh has achieved in garments and medicine sectors and urged the entrepreneurs of the south Asian country to invest in the landlocked nation.

Customs houses at ports and field offices for value-added tax will remain open during the seven-day countrywide complete lockdown starting from Monday.

Jashore’s road communication with other districts was cut off this afternoon ahead of the countrywide complete lockdown from Monday to curb the surge of Covid-19.

The investors of the export processing zones (EPZs) have requested Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (Bepza) to keep the EPZs open during the upcoming countrywide shutdown starting from June 28.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has wondered why Bangladeshis are trying to reach Europe illegally, risking their lives, despite the country's huge economic progress.

All public and private services in the country will be available online by 2025, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said while addressing a virtual programme as chief guest at the launch of the Institute of Business Analysis’s (IIBA) Bangladesh chapter last night.

Crowds are forming at Shimulia and Banglabazar ferry ghat as the government has declared a seven-day complete lockdown from Monday.

Police today arrested another Indian citizen on charge of entering Bangladesh without proper documents and visiting the Padma bridge site in Shariatpur’s Jajira late at night.

A total of 300 more distressed and low-income people including tailors, rickshaw-pullers and transgender individuals hardest-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic were given financial assistance as gift from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A van driver was killed after a pick-up van hit his vehicle in Dhaka’s Natun Bazar area this morning.

Mehdadur Rahman Durand, Deputy Managing Director of Uttara Group who sustained burns in a fire at his Gulshan home a week ago, died at a hospital early today.

As the government has declared seven-day complete lockdown from Monday, people are rushing to leave Dhaka but they are suffering on roads as all long-route buses from the capital remains suspended from June 23 to stem the surge in Covid infections and deaths.

A bridge on Chawra canal, in Mahishdanga area of Barguna's ​​Amtali upazila, collapsed last evening. At least 25,000 people from six neighbouring villages used the bridge on a regular basis.

Speakers at a views exchange meeting today underscored the need to allocate adequate compensation from the state fund for torture victims and their families.

Tunisian authorities on Thursday rescued 267 migrants, most of them Bangladeshis, who tried to sail from neighbouring Libya to Italy across the Mediterranean, reports AFP quoting the International Organization for Migration.

A study conducted by Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) revealed that millions of urban and new poor created by the pandemic remain unaddressed by the government’s social protection programmes.

Following suit of Brac Bank, Bank Asia and Dhaka Bank, local banking financial institution City Bank also cancelled card transactions with e-commerce platforms today.

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder today said many people think that the government's food stocks has decreased which is not correct.

Newly-appointed Chief of Army Staff SM Shafiuddin Ahmed was adorned with the rank badge of “General” in presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Gono Bhaban this morning.