At least five coal-based power plant workers were killed and 15 were injured during a clash with police in Chattogram’s Banshkhali area this morning.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran today highlighted the significance of the historic Mujibnagar Day, which falls on April 17, and said the Mujibnagar government played a historic role in the freedom struggle of Bangladesh.

One of the shipbreaking workers who suffered burn injuries in an explosion at Jamuna Shipbreakers in Chattogram’s Sitakunda died today while undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Burn Institute in Dhaka.

Bangladesh Police are seeing a rapid rise in the number of infected personnel amid the second wave of the Covid-19 virus.

The level of infection of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia caused by Covid-19 is “extremely minimal”, her physician said based on the probationary report of a CT scan done last night.

Police today arrested a youth, who is said to have a mental condition, for the rape and assault of a 100-year-old woman in Jashore Sadar upazila's Chanchra union.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate around 100 special flights to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, UAE and Singapore for a week from April 17 to carry migrant workers to their respective workplaces.

The job portal “Chakrir Khoj” launched by the Bangladesh High Commission in Malaysia is aimed at facilitating Malaysian government’s ongoing legalisation process and ensuring welfare of the migrants, said the Bangladesh mission there in response to a Malaysian minister slamming the initiative.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, was on her way to a hospital in the capital to get a CT scan.

Police recovered a touchstone statue of Lord Vishnu from a brick field at Jamun village in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon this afternoon.

The government has imposed a 65-day ban on fishing off the Bay of Bengal to try and preserve the fish stock and boost their breeding.

Twenty Indian workers at Rampal coal-fired thermal power plant in Bagerhat have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.

With love, respect and grief, people from all walks of life bade farewell to Awami League lawmaker and president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Abdul Matin Khasru today.

From March 26 to 28, Hefajat-e-Islam activists attacked and vandalised 58 government and non-government institutions, two temples, and houses and offices of top leaders of the district Awami League and Chhatra League in Brahmanbaria.

There is thin presence of people on the roads in most cities and towns in the country during the second day of the seven-day "strict lockdown", imposed from April 14.

A boy was dead and at least two others were injured after an abandoned crude bomb they picked up -- thinking it was a toy -- exploded in Jashore’s Keshabpur area around 12:00pm today.

On the second day of the weeklong “complete lockdown”, traffic jam was witnessed on Airport Road.

A total of 3,16,801 movement passes were issued from 11am on Wednesday to 9:00am today -- for going out on the first two days of the weeklong "strict lockdown" imposed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19.

A man was killed and five others were injured in a clash between the supporters of two chairmen candidates of Kadirpur union under Shibchar upazila in Madaripur.

Garment workers faced immense difficulty today due to shortage in transport on the roads amid the weeklong “strict lockdown” imposed by the government to prevent transmission of Covid-19.