A worker was killed and six others injured after the roof of the main gate of an under construction pump station on Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) project collapsed at Shimrail area of Naranyanganj Sadar upazila today.

The number of diarrhoea patients in Bagerhat has increased alarmingly with more than 600 treated in different hospitals of the district in the last week.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia underwent a fresh Covid-19 test today to know whether she has recovered as she has been doing well with no visible symptom, said her personal physician Mohammad Al Mamun.

The bodies of newborn twins still remain at Rangpur Medical College Hospital morgue since Thursday, after a man claiming to be their father, admitted them in critical condition.

If the government resumes public transport from April 29 after the ongoing lockdown ends, Bangladesh Railway (BR) will also resume their passenger train services from that day.

Leader of different political parties, included in Hefajat-e-Islam, have tried to materialise their party agenda under the banner of the Islamist group and hatched conspiracies to topple the government in 2013 and March this year, investigators have said.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) authorities have extended deadline -- till May 3 -- for the application process of admission test for 2020-21 honours academic session due to the lockdown situation.

A massive fire broke out at Kamalganj Lawachara Reserve Forest in Moulvibazar today.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said the government is actively considering resuming public transport services -- on condition of complying with the health rules -- after the ongoing lockdown ends on April 28.

A newlywed couple, injured in the deadly fire in Old Dhaka’s Armanitola yesterday, were put on life support at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.

Eighth anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, the deadliest garment factory accident in history that took over a thousand lives, is being observed today.

A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her husband in Dhaka’s Pallabi area early today.

Fleeing a mobile court team enforcing lockdown restrictions, a transport worker was crushed to death under the wheels of a private car on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila yesterday.

Local authorities seized 135 sacks of Aush seed and fertilisers from an empty house in Manda upazila of Naogaon district on Thursday after these were distributed under the government pandemic grants for agriculture.

The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) recovered bodies of three Rohingyas, including those of a husband and wife, from Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

An intensive care unit (ICU) was installed at Bagerhat Sadar Hospital with three ICU beds yesterday for treating critically ill Covid-19 patients.

The restrictions on movement are likely to be relaxed to some extent from April 28, two weeks before Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of Muslims.

A Jubo Dal activist in Manikganj was sued under Digital Security Act allegedly for sharing a video which had “derogatory” remarks about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook.

During this pandemic, food delivery and e-commerce platforms and their partner logistic aggregators hired more than 1 lakh delivery men.

Police today arrested two teenagers for raping a seven-year-old girl in Bagerhat's Chitalmari.