At least seven members, including two children, of a family suffered burn injures in a fire, supposedly caused by a gas cylinder blast in Ashulia of Savar, early today.

World Bank predicts that Bangladesh’s growth will slow to 1.6 percent in the current fiscal year.

Bail for the white former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering African American George Floyd, whose death ignited two weeks of protests, is raised by $250,000 to $1.25 million at a hearing.

A Police Headquarters inquiry has found an assistant sub-inspector guilty in connection with the death of a farmer in Gopalganj.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Mahabubor Rahman has tested positive for coronavirus.

Some ruling and opposition party lawmakers have lent their support to an increase in taxes on tobacco and tobacco products, saying it would save lives, decrease healthcare costs and increase revenue.

The price of onion has come down to Tk 30 per kilogramme in retail markets of Dhaka due to falling demand amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

A 100-year-old woman in Bangladesh has survived Covid-19 infection despite being a heart disease patient and suffering from old-age complications, family members say.

As many as 43 staffers and officials of the Parliament Secretariat have been infected with Covid-19 so far at a time when the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban gears up to go into budget session.

The civil aviation ministry plans to resume regular flight operations on international routes on a limited scale from the third week of the current month.

A total 3,049 Bangladesh Police personnel have so far recovered from Covid-19 across the country.

Two shops in Chattogram have been fined Tk 100,000 each by two separate mobile courts for selling oxygen cylinders at a high profit margin.

Operation of ferries, launches, speed boats and trawlers will remain suspended on Shimulia-Kathalbari route from 11:00am to 7:00pm on Wednesday.

The High Court asks the government what Covid-19 patients were being prescribed centrally and how the patients were being monitored across the country.

Seeking to facilitate availability of experimental drugs for severely-ill Covid-19 patients, the Indian Health Ministry has issued a draft notification for manufacture, import and "compassionate use" of any unapproved drug that is in the phase-III (human) of clinical trial globally.

Director General of Rapid Action Battalion Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun said those involved in human trafficking and the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya will not be spared and appropriate legal action will be taken against them.

The Bangladesh government has written to Kuwait seeking to know why Mohammad Shahid Islam, popularly known as Kazi Papul, has been arrested.

Ten ventilators and an ambulance with modern equipment will be provided to Cox’s Bazar Medical College Hospital for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in the district.

The cabinet has in principle approved the draft of “The Bangladesh Bank (Amendment) Act, 2020” by abolishing the ‘proviso’ of the 65-year age limit for the governor of the central bank.

The local administration declares Nohakhali sadar and Begumganj upazilas as red zones and imposed lockdowns there for the next 15 days from tomorrow to contain the spread of Covid-19.