The Europe-based Bangladeshi diaspora organisation, European Bangladesh Forum (EBF), organised a demonstration today near the Pakistan embassy in the Hague demanding an “unconditional official apology” for the genocide the Pakistan army committed in Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War.

On the first day of the seven-day “strict lockdown” today, mobile courts in Khulna fined 85 people for defying the lockdown.

The seven-day "strict lockdown" has begun this Pahela Baishakh morning with only a few people on Dhaka streets amid heavy presence of law enforcers to implement the restriction.

Although Dhaka streets were mostly vacant since this morning, on the first day of government-imposed “strict lockdown”, the scenario was quite different in the kitchen markets.

A total of 132,879 movement passes were issued from 11am yesterday to 12:50pm today -- for going out on the first day of the weeklong "strict lockdown" imposed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Dhaka University is celebrating the Pahela Baishakh 1428 with a token programme, on a small scale, due to the current coronavirus situation.

The seven-day "strict lockdown" has begun this Pahela Baishakh morning with only a few people on Dhaka streets amid heavy presence of law enforcers to implement the restriction.

The US Embassy in Dhaka said it will remain closed for routine US citizen services for the duration of the “lockdown”.

A man was brutally killed by unidentified assailants in Bogura’s Sadar upazila.

Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over different parts of the country, Met office said today.

Maulana Abdullah Mohammad Hasan, a nayeb-e-amir of Hefajat-e Islam, has resigned from the Qawmi madrasa based organisation bringing allegations that the Islamist outfit has now become a platform for materialising the personal agenda of some controversial Hefajat leaders.

The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims engage in self-purification through fasting and abstinence, begins in the country tomorrow as the new crescent moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky today.

All hospitals, departments, offices, and institutions under the Health Service Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will remain open during the restrictions to be imposed from tomorrow (April 14) to April 21.

In October 2019, Sirajganj police from Jamuna river recovered the decomposed body of a man, wearing lungi and panjabi.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have busted a mini-casino and arrested 25 people in separate drives for gambling in two areas of Ashulia in Dhaka.

BNP today claimed that the government does not have any roadmap to implement “complete lockdown” for preventing transmission of Covid-19.

People working in different districts are trying to return home, causing traffic jam on the Aricha-Kazirhat ferry ghat on the Jamuna river over the last couple of days.

Two people were killed and three were injured as a car collided with an onion-laden truck, which was parked beside Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar, this morning.

The “strict lockdown” does not start till 6:00am tomorrow. Yet, on an average 15,000 people are registering every minute after police launched a “movement pass” app to be able to go out during the seven-day restrictions.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed today said police do not want to see anyone on the streets or outside from tomorrow (April 14).