Veteran politician and Awami League presidium member Mohammed Nasim will be buried at Banani graveyard, after namaz-e-janaza at Banani Jam-e-Mosque at 10:30am tomorrow, Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak has said.

Forty-four people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed profound shock at the death of Awami League presidium member and spokesperson of 14-Party Mohammed Nasim.

India surpasses the three lakh-mark of coronavirus positive cases with the worst daily spike of 11,458 infections, according to the country’s health ministry.

Just one day after the death of an elephant by electrocution in Teknaf, another Asian elephant has been found dead at a streambed in Fasiakhali union of Lama upazila under Bandarban district.

Two members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) are killed and four others injured in a road accident on the Chapainawabganj-Dhaka highway in Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Facebook Inc fires an employee who criticised Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump, citing his tweet challenging a colleague's silence on the issue.

US President Donald Trump says in an interview that it would be a good thing if police use of choke holds was ended in most instances, although he suggested their use would be understandable in situations where an officer was in danger.

Another doctor dies from coronavirus at Chattogram Medical College Hospital.

Veteran politician and Awami League presidium member Mohammed Nasim has passed away while undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital at the age 72.

Senior journalist Moazzem Hossain Nannu passes away at the intensive care unit of Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.

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China on has said Twitter should shut down accounts that smear China if it wants to fight disinformation, arguing that the country is the biggest victim of disinformation.

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The lower courts across the country have granted bail to 5,675 people in the last five working days.

Dhaka North City Corporation authorities are continuing their anti-mosquito drive for the seventh day today and have fined houses and establishments Tk 3.7 lakh for presence of Aedes mosquito larvae.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and his wife Laila Arjuman Banu tested positive for Covid-19 today, according to a press release issued by the ministry.

Former health minister Mohammed Nasim's physical condition has deteriorated as he developed a lung infection.

Two people died after inhaling toxic fumes while working inside a septic tank in Kurigram’s Phulbari this morning.

Dr AKM Fazlul Haq, a professor of Ophthalmology at ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College, died after he was diagnosed with Covid-19.