The owner of Moyur-2, a launch that hit another and caused it to capsize at Buriganga leaving 34 people dead, have been arrested.

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India “fully understands the urgency of an early, safe and sustainable repatriation of displaced persons from Myanmar’s Rakhine state in the interest of all”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for a “vigorous worldwide response” to combat the adverse impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the migrants as she placed a three-point suggestion to this end.

A cement factory official is killed when a truck hit his motorcycle at Mirakhali area under Rampal upazila on Khulna-Mongla highway this evening.

Veteran journalist AKM Rashid Un Nabi Babu dies at a hospital in the capital. He was 64.

A rusty but live hand grenade creates huge tension at a re-rolling mill in Chattogram last night before it was defused by police.

Italy did not allow 151 Bangladeshi passengers to enter into the country who were on board a Qatar Airways flight from Dhaka.

Police have recovered the body of two schoolgirls from their residences in Atrai and Dhamairhaat upazila of Naogaon district in separate incidents.

Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have sued the Trump administration, seeking to block a new rule that would bar foreign students from remaining in the United States if their universities move all courses online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian says that the ministry has donated Tk 84 crore for the welfare of garments industry workers from its central fund.

A senior officer of Janata Bank’s Soptopati Branch in Bogura died of Covid-19 today.

A new $7 million food assistance project has been launched to help poor households in Dhaka at high risk of Covid-19.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has decided to continue running the virtual functions of the Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court until the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic situation improves in the country.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked health minister Obadiah Moyo with immediate effect for inappropriate conduct, according to a statement from the presidency shared by information ministry secretary Nick Mangwana on Twitter.

Veteran journalist and former chief editor and managing director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Deba Priya Barua died at his residence in the capital early today.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said a strict lockdown will go in force for a week in expanded containment zones across nine districts of the region which have a high number of coronavirus cases following a sharp spike in reported cases.

A fourth grader has been raped allegedly by a youth and his brother in Dhunat upazila of Bogura.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told parliament that the government scrutinised and dropped the names included through irregularities in the list of poor people for receiving cash assistance and only eligible people will receive the support.

Awami League presidium member Amir Hossain Amu has been made the spokesperson and coordinator of the 14-party alliance.

The Mirpur branch of Regent Hospital was sealed off by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today on charges of its management issuing fake Covid-19 test certificates and charging money to treat coronavirus patients despite agreeing to do it for free.