A total of 272 Bangladeshi migrant workers were repatriated from Lebanon today amid a ban on arrivals from the middle-eastern country due to the rapid surge in Coronavirus infections.

Twenty-one policemen and two drivers were injured when a bus collided with two pick-up vans in Brahmanbaria this morning.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs today issued new guidelines on performing prayers in mosques in an emergency notification to curb the spike in Covid-19 infections in the country.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice on the government to take necessary steps in 15 days to end any discrimination between public and private female service holders regarding maternity leave.

Those who have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine will start receiving SMS for the second dose from today.

Fifty-two people have died from Covid-19 during 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Mobile courts in Khulna and Savar today conducted drives and handed down sentences and fine for those found violating the restrictions placed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Two convicted prisoners died at Dhaka hospitals this morning.

The Probashi Kalyan Bank has so far disbursed over Tk 140 crore from the Tk 700 crore special reintegration loan for migrant workers returning amid the coronavirus pandemic, Expatriates' Welfare Minister Imran Ahmad said today.

Shop owners and employees of different markets in the New Market and nearby areas in Dhaka demonstrated for the second consecutive day today, protesting the government restriction on their businesses for seven days.

Police detained a local Jubo League leader from Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj for allegedly making an “objectionable” post on Facebook about Hefajat Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque.

No public transports are plying Dhaka streets, and markets, shops on the main thoroughfares remain closed as the government-imposed weeklong restrictions on transport and public movement began today to check the spread of coronavirus.

Most shops on the main thoroughfares of Chattogram city remained closed as the weeklong restrictions imposed by the government on transport and public movement started since this morning.

Two separate probe committees have been formed to investigate the launch capsize in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj yesterday evening.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday decided to run court functions on a limited scale from today to April 11, during the government’s seven-day restrictions to curb the recent spike in Covid-19 cases and deaths.

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After about a year, since March 2020, Bangladesh has now gone into a second lockdown in view of the worsening Covid-19 situation.

A former student of the Bogura Govt Azizul Haque College was stabbed dead at the college campus around 9:00pm tonight.

South Korea has provided 95,000 Covid-19 rapid test kits to Bangladesh as part of its humanitarian assistance efforts.

Two passenger and two cargo flights could not land at the Dhaka Airport due to the nor’wester that hit the capital today.