Apple Inc said on Tuesday it was holding a special event on April 20, with many expecting the tech giant to launch new iPad Pro models and other products ahead of its annual developers' conference in June.

Muslims today gathered for the first Tarabi prayer of the year at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque. The prayers took place after it was announced earlier today that the month of Ramadan is set to begin from tomorrow. The mosque authorities allowed around 70 people inside the main mosque and the rest prayed outside. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Religious Affairs yesterday said a maximum of 20 people would be allowed inside mosques from April 14.

Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it is delaying the rollout of its coronavirus vaccine in Europe amid a U.S. probe into reports of rare blood clots in some recipients, moves that experts worry could further shake vaccine confidence and complicate COVID-19 immunization efforts.

Hank Azaria, who voiced the Indian character Apu on The Simpsons, today apologised for playing the role, the BBC reports.

A team of detective branch of police (Wari Division) have arrested Mufti Sharifullah, assistant publicity secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam’s central committee from Mir Hazirbagh area of Jatrabari today.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that construction of infrastructure will be kept outside the purview of “lockdown”.

The crisis committee formed by the Ministry of Labour and Employment to make sure workers get their salaries and festival bonuses started visiting factories, including garments, today.

Around 30,000 movement passes have been issued to people till this evening, allowing them to go out for their emergency needs during the seven-day ‘strict lockdown’, starting from tomorrow morning.

Once again, a “lockdown” is about to be enforced in the country. But how prepared is the government to strictly implement it this time?

Three members of a family were killed after a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chauddagram upazila of Cumilla this evening.

Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over different parts of the country, Met office said today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued a call asking everyone to strictly follow health guidelines to face Covid-19 pandemic’s ongoing second wave. She also reassured the nation that her government will remain beside the people.

Maulana Abdullah Mohammad Hasan, a nayeb-e-amir of Hefajat-e Islam, has resigned from the Qawmi madrasa based organisation bringing allegations that the Islamist outfit has now become a platform for materialising the personal agenda of some controversial Hefajat leaders.

Police claimed to have arrested two operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from the Bharnia DC Government Primary School in Ranishankoil upazila of Thakurgaon early today.

The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims engage in self-purification through fasting and abstinence, begins in the country tomorrow as the new crescent moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky today.

The Supreme Court today directed a suspected member of banned militant group Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Chapainwabganj, Md Toufikul Islam alias doctor Toufik, to surrender before the trial court concerned in two weeks in connection with a case filed against him under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for a halt to the sale of live wild mammals in food markets to prevent the emergence of new diseases such as Covid-19.

To protect city dwellers from mosquito menace, authorities of Mymensingh City Corporation have released 2000 frogs in a canal of the city today.

Bangladesh hopes Malaysia will play an instrumental role to move the issue of Rohingya refugees forward within ASEAN and help achieve a durable solution to the crisis.

In October 2019, Sirajganj police from Jamuna river recovered the decomposed body of a man, wearing lungi and panjabi.