Bangladesh has sought the support of the United States for the country’s RMG sector, which has been badly hit by fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

Bangladesh Bank will provide half of the Tk 20,000 crore stimulus package announced by the government for the cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises sector -- to deal with the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) says neighbourhood stores selling essential goods can remain open from 6am till 4pm.

An assistant sub-inspector of police was suspended after some auto-rickshaw drivers staged demonstrations against him for allegedly taking bribe in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

At last, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, became the subject matter of a Hollywood action movie. After visiting a lot of African countries and the Middle East, the American culture industry found the existence of a small country (big in population size) in South Asia to explore a crime thriller. Though most of the movie is set in Dhaka, apart from some plate shots the entire shooting took place in India and Thailand.

Covid-19 is resulting in unanticipated impacts around the globe. From crippling global supply chains to ripping financial markets apart. And from closing down organisations around the world to heralding in a new era of work-from-home, the pandemic has effectively placed us all in an indefinite period of social distancing.

Kaan Pete Roi, the first emotional support and suicide prevention helpline in Bangladesh, announces that it will extend its operating hours and keep the helpline open with support from SAJIDA Foundation.

103 readymade garment factories are reopened on a limited scale in Narayanganj, one of the hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak.

At least 34 Covid-19 patients are currently being housed in intensive care units (ICUs) of different hospitals in Dhaka.

The government has provided legal aid to 5,07, 040 destitute people of the country without any cost in a decade.

National airliner Biman Bangladesh Airlines and private air operator US-Bangla Airlines will operate six special flights from India to bring back around 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis from the neighbouring country.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has underlined that lockdown across the country “has yielded positive results” as it has managed to save thousands of lives in the past one and half months during the coronavirus outbreak.

The man, who entered India’s Assam by swimming across river, did not go there “for Covid-19 treatment”, and he is “mentally challenged”, says Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) official, local council representatives and doctors.

Bangladesh has extended ongoing ban on flight operation till May 7 to and from all European countries and the nations that have restricted the entry of Bangladeshis to their territories as well as on all domestic routes over the coronavirus fear.

Ovibash Karmi Unnayan Programme (OKUP) has appealed to the prime minister to announce a social safety net programme for returnee migrant workers and their families, who are not being included in any of the social protection schemes declared by the government.

Number of recoveries possibly higher as only hospital data available at the moment, it says.

More than 200 shops -- mostly grocery, clothing, pharmacy, hardware, library -- were destroyed in the fire. Construction of a fire station was started in 2015 in Thanchi but the work has not been finished yet.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced an Rs 50,000 crore special liquidity facility to rev up the mutual fund sector, days after Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund decided to close its six debt schemes in the wake of the economic uncertainty sparked by Covid-19 pandemic.

The number of physicians infected with Covid-19 across the country has crossed 400, according to a tally by the Bangladesh Doctors Foundation.

An alleged criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gazipur city.