Three more Rohingya refugees tested positive for Covid-19 in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar today.

Another police personnel who was infected with Covid-19 died in Dhaka today.

M Shamsul Alam, one of the pioneers of the country’s insurance sector, breathed his last on May 20 at the age of 83.

Results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams will be published on May 31, education ministry officials say.

Police are considering “movement pass” for those who need to go out for valid reasons -- to curb the number of people going out and thus lower the possibility of Covid-19 transmission.

Two isolation and treatment centres for Covid-19 patients are inaugurated today in Cox’s Bazar -- one at Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp and the other at Ukhiya upazila.

A total of 340 police personnel have tested positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours till 12:00pm today, the highest number of infection recorded among the law enforcers within the span of time in the country so far.

Robi, IPDC Finance and sManager (a Sheba Platform Limited venture) are partnering up with Mission Save Bangladesh to support 25,000 small and micro enterprises for business growth by extending working capital support for up to Tk 40 crore.

Standard Chartered Bangladesh has teamed up with Brac to provide support packages to 25,000 people from 5,000 low-income families living in areas under lock down to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.

A total of 195 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in Canada following the Covid-19 pandemic departed for Dhaka from Toronto on Wednesday night (Canada time) by a chartered flight.

CARE Bangladesh in partnership with The Daily Star organized an online discussion on the rapid assessment undertaken by CARE Bangladesh's Urban Health Team on urban health affected by COVID-19 in Gazipur.

A police personnel, who died early yesterday at Chattogram General Hospital, was Covid-19 positive, test result confirmed last night.

Beximco Pharmaceuticals has introduced generic remdesivir for Covid-19 treatment.

All types of operations including loading, unloading and delivery have resumed at Chittagong Port hours after cyclone Amphan hit the country’s coastal areas yesterday and eventually weakened into a land depression.

Thirteen people were killed as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway under Palashbari upazila in Gaibandha today.

A total of 18,585 people, accused of criminal charges, have secured bail from the lower courts across the country in the last seven working days.

Around one crore consumers around the country have been out of electricity coverage, following the lashing of Cyclone Amphan.

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

The European Union (EU) has said it is mobilising over 334 million euro [equivalent to around 31 billion BDT] for the fight against Covid-19 and its consequences in Bangladesh.

Super Cyclone Amphan, which weakened into an “extremely severe” cyclonic storm kills at least 12 persons and ravaged Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal as it left behind a trail of destruction by uprooting trees, destroying thousands of homes and swamping low-lying areas of the state.