The government has extended the ongoing countrywide "strict lockdown" for another week till April 28 amid a spike in coronavirus deaths and infections.

The government has decided to enforce another countrywide lockdown, for a week, from April 22 as the coronavirus infections keep spreading.

Two brothers died after inhaling toxic gas inside a septic tank in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha early today.

The cabinet division has proposed to extend the ongoing strict “lockdown” for another week amid a spike in Covid-19 infections and deaths.

At least three people were killed and six others were injured as a banana-laden truck overturned in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna last night.

A Dhaka court today placed Hefajat-e-Islam's Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed last year with Mohammadpur Police Station.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s son-in-law, Md Dilshad Hossain, has died of cardiac arrest in London on April 16.

BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas today said media distorted his statement on disappearance of former BNP lawmaker M Ilias Ali.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said 36.25 lakh poor families will get financial assistance as gift from the Prime Minister on the occasion of the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.

In total, 512 poor families received rice relief from the district administration in Chandpur today.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken Bangladesh to a new height of international diplomacy with her characteristic conviction and patience.

A mobile court in Patuakhali seized 22 maund of jatka (young hilsa) along with a truck from Sheikh Kamal Bridge Toll plaza on Patuakhali-Kuakata highway today.

Joint Secretary General of Hefajat-e-Islam Mamunul Haque was arrested from a madrasa in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area around 12pm today.

As the "strict lockdown" rolled into the fifth day, public movement and vehicles increased on most streets in Dhaka on the first day of the week.

A total of 3,562 people were sued in two cases filed in connection with yesterday’s clash between police and workers of coal-based SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, which left five workers dead.

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on Bangabandhu Bridge East link road in Tangail this afternoon.

Detectives arrested Dhaka City unit President of Hefajat-e-Islam Maulana Zunayed Al Habib from the city’s Baridhara area this evening.

Two people were killed, and 10 were injured, as two pick-up vans collided on Satkhira-Khulna highway in Subhashini area of Tala upazila under Satkhira today.

Police have recovered the body of Tareq Shamsur Rahman, a retired professor of International Relations Department, Jahangirnagar University, from his Uttara residence in Dhaka this morning.

People in Khulna were seemingly not abiding by the rules of “strict lockdown” on the fourth day despite an alarming number of infections in the city.