A 370-bed ‘Corona Centre’ will open at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) tomorrow for providing treatment to coronavirus patients.

Ansar members at Mugda General Hospital have allegedly assaulted a photojournalist of a Bangla daily newspaper when he was taking photos during a clash that broke out between Ansar men and suspected Covid-19 patients at the hospital premises.

Kuwait’s Public Prosecution decided to send two Kuwaiti officials to jail, while Parliamentary Legislative Committee has lifted immunity of two MPs for interrogation for their alleged involvement in human trafficking, money laundering and bribery linked to Bangladesh MP Shahid Islam.

Four more Chinese nationals working in a factory in Nilphamari EPZ have tested positive for coronavirus.

Dr Wahidul Huq, a noted economist and former finance minister during HM Ershad’s regime, passed away in Toronto, Canada. He was 87.

Humility is the rarity that goes sorely missing in people with power. Among hordes of influential people in our society, only a few stand apart as rarity, a light of hope for the society against show of arrogance. With the passing of Latifur Rahman, a light of rarity went out for good.

A virtual court in Dhaka places a caretaker of Alif Hostel on a one-day remand in a case filed over disappearing certificates and other valuables of 138 students for “not paying rent for three months” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Around 25,000 families from five upazilas in Sirajganj are barely surviving on embankments or roads as their houses have been flooded.

Bangladesh now ranks eighth in the global weekly increase of new coronavirus cases, according to World Health Organization (WHO).

A five-month-old infant in Adabor and a woman in Mohammadpur are killed in the capital.

In an apparent dig at China, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that “the era of expansionism is over”.

Two of the biggest Harry Potter fan sites yesterday distanced themselves from author JK Rowling because of her beliefs on transgender issues, calling them at odds with the message of empowerment in her best-selling books.

Three passengers of a three-wheeler are killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Bonpara highway in Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is all set to begin a 10-day combing operation in areas under its juisdiction from tomorrow (Saturday) to destroy all breeding grounds of Aedes mosquitoes, carriers of both dengue and chikungunya.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a "gunfight" with police in front of Marine Drive Road under Teknaf Sadar Upazila in Cox’s Bazar.

A total of 40 lower court judges and 181 court staff are infected with Covid-19.

Forty-two people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

Prince Andrew is "bewildered" by claims he is not cooperating with the US investigation into the alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, his legal team says.

Police arrested a physician last night on charges of raping his personal chamber assistant in Pirojpur on Wednesday afternoon.

BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s advisor Muhammad Abdul Haque, popularly known as MA Haque, dies at a hospital in Sylhet. He was 67.