The Directorate General of Health Services today mentioned 29 districts -- considered “risk areas”-- with higher transmission of Covid-19.

Taking the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases into consideration, the government has issued fresh directives including restriction on social gatherings and closure of educational institutions.

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

A three-member probe committee has been formed to investigate yesterday’s mayhem by Qawmi madrasa-based organisation Hefajat-e-Islam in Brahmanbaria.

Rail communication on Dhaka-Chattogram, Dhaka-Sylhet, and Dhaka-Noakhali routes resumed 12 hours after suspension yesterday.

Health minister Zahid Maleque today said the government may announce new measures to tackle coronavirus transmission within days.

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra Union announced that the organisation’s 41st central council will be held on April 12.

Over 400 people have been sued in a case filed over attacking police, vandalising their van, and torching two motorcycles in Habiganj’s Ajmeriganj upazila.

Five patients have died with Covid-19 infection and 50 tested positive for the virus in 24 hours in Bogura.

Chinese officials today said Sweden’s H&M and other foreign companies should not make rash moves or step into politics after the companies raised concerns about forced labour in Xinjiang, sparking furious online backlash and boycotts.

A union parishad member and his men have allegedly attacked the family and vandalised the house of a local Hindu leader in Pabna’s Sathiya upazila.

The much-anticipated meeting of the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) on the sidelines of a ministerial conference of the Heart of Asia — Istanbul Process, which gets under way on today — has not been scheduled so far.

A woman, who suffered burn injuries following a gas cylinder explosion in Biswanath upazila of Sylhet district one week ago, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of Covid-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.

Three organisations of Rajshahi University (RU) employees laid siege to the university’s administrative building this morning, demanding easy corporate loan with low interest rate.

Gas supply -- both residential and commercial -- in Brahmanbaria municipality area was suspended since last night due to a technical glitch.

The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal for almost a week was re-floated on Monday and is currently being secured, Inchcape Shipping Services said, raising hopes the busy waterway will soon be reopened.

China generated 53% of the world’s total coal-fired power in 2020, nine percentage points more that five years earlier, despite climate pledges and the building of hundreds of renewable energy plants, according to a global data study.

A case has been filed in connection with the clash at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area in Dhaka on March 26.

US President Joe Biden has led global condemnation of an "absolutely outrageous" crackdown by Myanmar's junta that left more than 100 people -- including several children -- dead in the bloodiest day since the February 1 coup.