Covid-19 tsunami is raging in India. Patients are seen waiting for a bed outside hospitals. More than two lakh people have already lost their lives.

All long-term pass holders and short-term visitors who have been in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the last two weeks will no longer be allowed to enter or transit through Singapore, Education Minister Lawrence Wong announced on Friday (April 30).

Eighty-one eminent citizens today urged the Chinese government to bring to book Chinese companies involved with SS Power I Plant in Chattogram's Banshkhali upazila, where seven workers were killed in police firing during a protest on April 17.

Hathazari upazila administration today seized around 10,000 metres of illegal fishing net laid in the Halda river by poachers to net brood fish ahead of spawning.

Two internet service workers died from electrocution in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila early today.

Police have arrested five more people in the last 24 hours from different parts of Brahmanbaria in connection with the violence and arson carried out by Hefajat-e-Islam activists last month.

The Government of Bangladesh has appointed three Bangladeshi individuals to the prestigious Panels for Arbitrators and Conciliators of the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Leader of the Opposition in parliament Raushan Ershad was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka last night.

A stone-laden bulkhead capsized at the outer anchorage of Chattogram port this morning.

Bepar Sharief, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Singapore, learnt cooking from his mother in Bangladesh and now runs a successful briyani stall in Singapore.

Sabrina Sobhan, wife of Bashundhara Group Managing director Sayem Sobhan Anvir, along with seven members of their family left the country through a chartered flight this evening.

India has done its best to supply Covid-19 vaccines to its neighbours, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, at a webinar today.

India has thanked Bangladesh for its offer of medical supplies in the days of crisis and wished the India-Bangladesh friendship will overcome the pandemic together.

The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that asked the government to stop the operations of Maizea Advance Agro Refinery (MAAR) Limited, a dry starch powder producing company, for polluting environment at Shahpur area in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila.

The religious affairs ministry has come to know that a fraudulent group is taking money from people to include them as hajj aspirants this year.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested an active member of the banned militant group Ansar Al-Islam during a raid in the Bank Colony area of Savar Municipal area yesterday.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) has expressed concern over the death of a college student in a flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area on April 26.

At least 50 government owned trees planted on both sides of a road have been cut down at Dhulia in Patuakhali’s Baufal upazila.

Police arrested eight people in separate drives at Boalmari and Alfadanga upazilas of Faridpur between yesterday and today in a case filed over raping a 26-year-old woman.

Police last night arrested two people from Bagerhat’s Sadar upazila in a case filed over the rape of a woman.