Fleeing a mobile court team enforcing lockdown restrictions, a transport worker was crushed to death under the wheels of a private car on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila yesterday.

Local authorities seized 135 sacks of Aush seed and fertilisers from an empty house in Manda upazila of Naogaon district on Thursday after these were distributed under the government pandemic grants for agriculture.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) recovered bodies of three Rohingyas, including those of a husband and wife, from Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

An intensive care unit (ICU) was installed at Bagerhat Sadar Hospital with three ICU beds yesterday for treating critically ill Covid-19 patients.

The restrictions on movement are likely to be relaxed to some extent from April 28, two weeks before Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslims.

A Jubo Dal activist in Manikganj was sued under Digital Security Act allegedly for sharing a video which had “derogatory” remarks about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook.

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK has called on Asean leaders to unite to push the Myanmar junta to end horrific abuses against ordinary people and ensure it does not recognise the military as the country’s legitimate rulers.

During this pandemic, food delivery and e-commerce platforms and their partner logistic aggregators hired more than 1 lakh delivery men.

An elephant calf was found dead in a pit of mud in a tea garden in Rangunia upazila of Chattogram.

Ten more people have been arrested in the past 24 hours in connection with last month's mayhem by Hefajat-e-Islam supporters in Brahmanbaria, police said today.

Hefajat-e-Islam Brahmanbaria district unit’s Joint General Secretary Mufti Abdur Rahim Quasemi, who was released from Jamiya Islamia Younusia Madrasa a few months ago, has resigned seeking justice for those involved in the violence carried out by Hefajat-e-Islam activists in Brahmanbaria from March 26 to 28.

A Rohingya man suspected to be a yaba trader, was killed in a "gunfight" with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Naikhongchhari upazila of Bandarban early today.

Bangladesh has expressed its optimism over both funding and cutting carbon emission as global leaders in the Leaders Summit on Climate yesterday made political commitments to turn the tide of global warming.

Today is the 23rd death anniversary of Shazneen Tasnim Rahman.

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was shot dead and another man sustained bullet wounds at Hnila union in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila last night.

The European Commission is working on legal proceedings against AstraZeneca after the drugmaker cut COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to the European Union, sources familiar with the matter said.

Bangladesh, in principle, has agreed to a Chinese proposal to set up an "Emergency Covid-19 Vaccine Storage Facility" to ensure quick supply of vaccines among the South Asian countries during emergency.

Sheikh Md Mamunur Rashid, assistant commissioner at Dhaka deputy commissioner’s office and an executive magistrate, has been transferred to Barishal division.

Mekala Kurmayya, a shepherd, appeared at a government office in India’s Telangana state wearing a bird’s nest on his face as he could not afford a mask.

India’s Civil Aviation Ministry and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) tonight gave conditional exemption to Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct a feasibility study on Covid-19 vaccine delivery using drones.