Renowned art director and filmmaker Mohiuddin Faruque passes away at his residence in the capital’s Banani at the age of 78.

Law enforcers have arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman for allegedly beating up a farmer in Lalpur upazila of Natore as the farmer called a helpline number and sought relief.

Forty-eight Bangladeshis who remained stranded in Thailand for over a month, have returned back to Dhaka from Bangkok.

Bangladesh Army distributes relief materials to 360 families in the remote areas of Thanchi and Ruma upazilas of Bandarban.

Seven Bangladeshis, who returned from India today through Akhaura border of Brahmanaria under special arrangement, have been sent to institutional quarantine in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Workers of a garment factory stage demonstration on Dhaka-Sreepur road in Sreeur upazila of Gazipur demanding their due salaries for three months.

Two people, who were in an isolation ward at Khulna Medical College Hospital after having breathing difficulties, die.

Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media says, but Beijing dismisses claims that there has been any kind of cover-up.

The British government was too slow to react on a number of fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause the deaths of 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, a leading public health professor says.

Religious Affairs Ministry has extended the deadline for registration of intended hajis till April 30, according to a notice issued in this regard.

A youth has been shot dead and another sustained bullet injuries at hands of the gunman of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozzammel Haque at Kutubdia area under Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district.

Fortify Rights has called for Malaysia to urgently coordinate with regional governments to deploy search and rescue missions for boats of Rohingya refugees adrift at sea and ensure their safe disembarking.

Readymade garment (RMG) factories across the country are not reopening on April 26 as per the previous decision by the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), according to the president of the association, Rubana Huq.

Fifteen people died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 75, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says during a briefing.

Local administration locked down Joypurhat district after two people tested coronavirus positive for the first time at Zindapur union under Kalai upazila of the district last night.

A total of 17 more people -- including a doctor -- have been identified as coronavirus positive in Lakshmipur yesterday.

US-Bangla Airlines will operate eight special flights on the Chennai-Dhaka and Kolkata-Dhaka routes from April 20 – 25, to bring back over 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis.

A 65-year-old Covid-19 positive patient died at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram this morning.

A man died in his house at Rangpur’s Pirganj upazila this morning with coronavirus-like symptoms.

A 16-year-old Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinee was killed by unknown assailants last night in Rangpur’s Badarganj municipality.