The fisheries and livestock ministry asks the disaster management and relief ministry to provide financial support, including interest-free loans, to farmers and entrepreneurs to offset their losses caused by cyclone Amphan.

In 2007, Professor Muzibur Rahman Debdas returned to the spotlight when Liberation War Museum trustee and researcher Mofidul Hoque made a documentary on him titled "Kan Pete Roi” (The Sound of Silence). The documentary expertly presented the lone and long struggle of Prof Debdas, a Liberation War hero.

At least 40 dead bodies have been recovered after a Pakistani plane crashed with nearly 100 people on board in the southern city of Karachi, according to rescue officials, with dozens more feared dead.

Police recovered a bullet-hit body of a youth, aged around 24, at a Jaoban area, adjacent to Cox’s Bazar Beach early this morning.

Police arrested an 80-year-old man on charges of raping a six-year-old in Narayanganj Sadar upazila early today.

People have started leaving the capital for their village homes today for their Eid-ul-Fitr holidays amid the nationwide shutdown enforced to curb the transmission of Covid-19.

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

A total of 731 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Maldives, India and Canada amid suspension on international flights due to Covid-19 pandemic, return home on five separate special flights.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun says that people can go to their village homes on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr using “personal” vehicles following health directives.

Fish farmers of Bagerhat suffer losses worth Tk two crore ninety lakh after Cyclone Amphan washed away almost 4,635 fish and shrimp enclosures in the district, according to the estimation by the authorities.

Kamrun Nahar Putul, a former Awami League lawmaker of the Bogura-Joypurhat reserved seat for women, tested Covid-19 positive following her death at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogura.

An alleged serial rapist was killed in a “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion at Madhumita rail track area in East Tongi at Gazipur early today.

Md Sharif Mahmud Apu, public relations officer of the home ministry, battles both dengue and coronavirus at the same time.

Hong Kong activists call for a protest march against Beijing's plans to impose national security legislation in the city, prompting alarm that the new laws could erode its freedoms through "force and fear".

The main coronavirus treatment centre in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths in just over two weeks, the medical charity running the site says, more than double the toll announced by Yemeni authorities so far.

Malaysia reports 35 new coronavirus cases, including one Bangladeshi migrant, at an immigration detention centre after authorities rounded up undocumented migrants this month in areas under lockdown.

Police claim to have arrested three people, including an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC), in connection with the killing of the city corporation’s executive engineer.

Researchers in Chattogram have decoded the complete genome sequence of Covid-19 samples collected from the port city and different upazilas in the district.

The budget dialogue is a webinar series organised by the Youth Policy Forum (YPF) to analyse Bangladesh’s upcoming national budget with field experts and policy teams and for their first discussion, they covered the healthcare sector.

One lakh twenty thousand metric tonnes of mango, which amounts to ten percent of the country’s annual production, was damaged in the gusty winds brought by the mighty Cyclone Amphan.