Twenty Indian workers at Rampal coal-fired thermal power plant in Bagerhat have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.

With love, respect and grief, people from all walks of life bade farewell to Awami League lawmaker and president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Abdul Matin Khasru today.

From March 26 to 28, Hefajat-e-Islam activists attacked and vandalised 58 government and non-government institutions, two temples, and houses and offices of top leaders of the district Awami League and Chhatra League in Brahmanbaria.

Local administration today destroyed at least 1500 meters of fishing net and a mechanised boat lifting sand from the riverbed at Halda river.

A Dhaka court today placed three Hefajat-e-Islam men, including two of its central leaders, on a five-day remand each in a case filed over the mayhem in Dhaka in May 2013.

Today marks the second day of a nationwide “all-out lockdown” to curb Covid-19 infections. Amid the lockdown, hospitals, banks, and industries are still open.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain will take the decision on whether to keep court proceedings functional across the country during the present coronavirus situation.

There is thin presence of people on the roads in most cities and towns in the country during the second day of the seven-day "strict lockdown", imposed from April 14.

Police have arrested 30 more, including leaders and activists of Hefajat-e-Islam, in 24 hours till last night in connection with the mayhem in Brahmanbaria from March 26 to 28, centring the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A boy was dead and at least two others were injured after an abandoned crude bomb they picked up -- thinking it was a toy -- exploded in Jashore’s Keshabpur area around 12:00pm today.

On the second day of the weeklong “complete lockdown”, traffic jam was witnessed on Airport Road.

Fazle Hossain Badsha, lawmaker from Rajshahi-2 (Rajshahi metropolitan city), who had tested positive for coronavirus infection earlier, was brought to Dhaka to be admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital today.

A total of 3,16,801 movement passes were issued from 11am on Wednesday to 9:00am today -- for going out on the first two days of the weeklong "strict lockdown" imposed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Garment workers faced immense difficulty today due to shortage in transport on the roads amid the weeklong “strict lockdown” imposed by the government to prevent transmission of Covid-19.

A farmer was beaten to death yesterday, after he allegedly slaughtered a goat for damaging his crops in Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has suspended all functions of the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court for today (Thursday), showing respect to Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and Awami League lawmaker Abdul Matin Khasru.

Inter-bank electronic cheque transaction and fund transfer activities through Bangladesh Bank have been suspended since April 13 due to the disconnection of an optical fibre cable between two data centres of the central bank.

The Europe-based Bangladeshi diaspora organisation, European Bangladesh Forum (EBF), organised a demonstration today near the Pakistan embassy in the Hague demanding an “unconditional official apology” for the genocide the Pakistan army committed in Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War.

On the first day of the seven-day “strict lockdown” today, mobile courts in Khulna fined 85 people for defying the lockdown.

A man suffered bullet injury after a councillor allegedly opened fire at him over dispute centering the formation of a mosque committee in Raozan upazila of Chattogram today.