Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $250 million loan to Bangladesh as the country grapples with the fallout from the novel coronavirus disease.

The embankment of 35/1 polder of Water Development Board (WDB) in Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat collapses in many places after being hit by super cyclone Amphan.

A total of nine people have been killed in seven districts of the country as super cyclone Amphan battered Bangladesh’s south-western part in the early hours of today morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that although Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the economy along with public health, it has a silver lining in the form of changes in global efforts to deal with climate change and growing competition for natural resources.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka’s Agargaon area.

Maritime ports of Mongla, Payra, Chattogramand Cox’s Bazar have been advised to lower local cautionary signal number to three as cyclone Amphan has weakened into a land depression, said a Met office bulletin.

A 65-day ban on fishing in the Bay of Bengal has begun.

Hồ Chí Minh himself had chosen his name, which means bringer of light. Let us all conquer our selfish self and shine together with our own light as we celebrate Hồ Chí Minh’s life.

Approximately 53 lakh people in different districts are now out of electricity coverage as cyclone Amphan lashes coastal areas of the country.

Seven public representatives of Gopalpur Union Parishad under Faridpur’s Alfadanga upazila are suspended due to their alleged involvement in misappropriating relief items and rice.

The body of a local Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) leader has been recovered nine hours after he went missing following the capsizing of a boat in a canal in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

Extremely severe cyclone Amphan has started crossing Bangladesh’s coastal districts, particularly the nearby areas of Sundarbans, with strong winds of over up to 180km per hour.

Eminent television actor Ajmeri Zaman Reshma has passed away, her son Rahber Khan and daughter-in-law Farhana Mithu say.

Medical scientists suggested government to incorporate antibody tests along with PCR tests for Covid-19 to ensure large-scale screening which is deemed crucial to check transmission of the virus.

A five-year-old child died this evening while on the way to a cyclone centre in Galachipa upazila of Patuakhali.

The government has appointed Prof Mizanur Rahman and Prof Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed of Dhaka University as new commissioners of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.

Apart from couriers and trucks on roads, mango producers of Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj will be able to use parcel services of the railway at reduced rates for transporting mangoes to other districts this season.

The Covid-19 outbreak has resulted in a 10 percent decline in the government’s expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) coverage in Gazipur and adjacent areas in March compared to February, said a Care Bangladesh report.

Brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus deaths as the pandemic that has swept across the world begins to hit Latin America with its full force.

The Shipping Ministry has launched a control room to deal with various issues centering cyclone Amphan.