At least 400 battery-run easy bike and CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers, left without any income due to the week-long strict lockdown enforced to tackle the spread of Covid-19, were given food aid in Chandpur today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s gift of 2,600kg mangoes for her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi left Jashore’s Benapole land port today.

On the fourth day of the week-long strict lockdown, at least 618 people were arrested from Dhaka streets till 3:00pm today on charges of defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines.

Health Minister ZahidMaleque came under fire in parliament today for his “failure to ensure oxygen in hospitals for Covid-19 patients in Satkhira and Bogura”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament today that the government cannot knowingly put students in danger by opening educational institutions, as they will be infected with coronavirus.

“The Delimitation of Constituencies Bill, 2021”, seeking to formulate an act to replace a military regime-era ordinance in line with the court’s judgment, was placed in the parliament today.

​​​​​​​At least 621 people were arrested from Dhaka streets today, on the third day of the seven-day "strict lockdown", on charge of defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines.

Number of vehicles increased on Dhaka streets on the third day of the “strict lockdown” compared to the previous days.

Every cloud has a silver lining and so has the Covid-19 pandemic. It saved the government and taxpayers around Tk 2,500 crore since March last year.

The seven-day “strict lockdown” has entered its second day and is going on in full-force as streets of Dhaka were mostly empty.

The Bangladesh government does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so and has demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period, considering the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on its anti-trafficking capacity and therefore remained on Tier 2, according to a US Department of State report. 

Physical works of 18 major infrastructure projects under the road and rail sectors will continue amid the ongoing seven-day "strict lockdown" aiming to meet their fresh deadlines.

Speakers at a webinar today demanded a separate land commission for “ethnic people” living on the plainland.

The government has deployed 106 executive magistrates to monitor implementation of seven-day lockdown from tomorrow.

While every government office has to appoint a designated officer as per the Right to Information Act, that is not the reality on ground, Md Zafar Wazed, director general of Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB) said today.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has blamed the management of development projects, including “Metro Rail”, for waterlogging in the capital and consequent public sufferings.

Bangladesh will host a two-day ‘International Peace Conference’ in November, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the Parliament today.

Parliament today passed the Tk 603,681 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2021-22, with the theme “Bangladesh towards a resilient future protecting lives and livelihoods”.

Commuters’ woes continued on the third day of the “partial lockdown” due to lack of transports on the road.

Cabinet Division, in a circular issued today, said legal action will be taken if anyone goes out without any emergency during the week-long nationwide “strict restriction”, starting tomorrow.