Sixteen noted citizens today demanded justice for the incidents of attacks on minority communities, violence against woman, land grabbing, harassment of common people, and torture of journalists that happened during the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Social distancing measures are being largely ignored as passengers start travelling by launch from Barishal river port today.

SpaceX has delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced a new stimulus package to waive Tk 2,000 crore bank interest -- for people affected badly by the nationwide shutdown enforced to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court forms 15 more virtual courts which will function digitally from tomorrow to deal with the increasing number of bail petitions.

Mohammad Ali Hospital, a 250-bed hospital in Bogura dedicated to treating coronavirus patients, has halted collecting samples owing to a backlog in testing at the only RT-PCR lab in the district at the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College.

A total of 39 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in India for around two-and-a-half-months amid flight suspensions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, have returned home on a special flight of Novoair.

During my recent venture to the char areas of Bogura, I found students spending the days of the pandemic going without any form of online or offline classes. They do not have to attend school now and most of their parents are unable to teach them as many do not have any formal education.

Renowned television personality Mustafa Kamal Syed passed away at Square Hospital in Dhaka at the age of 75.

Sabrina Noora, who was murdered along with her mother and two siblings in Gazipur’s Sreepur on April 24, got GPA 5 in her Secondary School Certificate examination results published today.

When all road transport services including buses and minibuses are about to resume operations from tomorrow, people planning on availing ride-sharing services in the capital and other major cities will have to contend with bad news.

Former secretary M Bazlul Karim Chowdhury, who tested positive with coronavirus, dies at Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka.

The government has reset bus fare across the country, increasing it by 60 percent.

Forty people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the government would reduce and rationally adjust the proposed 80 percent hike in bus fare, considering people’s present economic ability.

Students of 3,023 institutions have passed this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) or equivalent examinations with a perfect pass rate of 100 percent.

A Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine could be ready for market as early as the end of this year, China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) said in a social media post.

A local journalist dies at the isolation ward of Chandpur Sadar Hospital with respiratory problems.

A total of 82.87 percent candidates have passed this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations with 1,35,898 students achieving GPA-5 across the country.

India has begun preparing a national forecast model to help monitor the future transmission of Covid-19 and assist governments in decision-making on readiness of the national health systems and other mitigation measures.