Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued a call asking everyone to strictly follow health guidelines to face Covid-19 pandemic’s ongoing second wave. She also reassured the nation that her government will remain beside the people.

Maulana Abdullah Mohammad Hasan, a nayeb-e-amir of Hefajat-e Islam, has resigned from the Qawmi madrasa based organisation bringing allegations that the Islamist outfit has now become a platform for materialising the personal agenda of some controversial Hefajat leaders.

The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims engage in self-purification through fasting and abstinence, begins in the country tomorrow as the new crescent moon was sighted in Bangladesh sky today.

Normal court functions will remain closed during the “strict restrictions” period to be enforced from tomorrow (April 14) to April 21.

In October 2019, Sirajganj police from Jamuna river recovered the decomposed body of a man, wearing lungi and panjabi.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have busted a mini-casino and arrested 25 people in separate drives for gambling in two areas of Ashulia in Dhaka.

A mobile court sentenced 12 people to three days’ imprisonment today and fined another Tk 1 lakh for lifting sand illegally from Dhaleswari river at Kalihati upazila of Tangail.

BNP today claimed that the government does not have any roadmap to implement “complete lockdown” for preventing transmission of Covid-19.

People working in different districts are trying to return home, causing traffic jam on the Aricha-Kazirhat ferry ghat on the Jamuna river over the last couple of days.

Two people were killed and three were injured as a car collided with an onion-laden truck, which was parked beside Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar, this morning.

The “strict lockdown” does not start till 6:00am tomorrow. Yet, on an average 15,000 people are registering every minute after police launched a “movement pass” app to be able to go out during the seven-day restrictions.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed today said police do not want to see anyone on the streets or outside from tomorrow (April 14).

A woman died after the auto-rickshaw carrying her was hit by a speeding covered van this morning at Sitakunda on Dhaka-Chattogram highway.

A 5 kilometre long tailback has been created on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Burichong upazila in Cumilla district ahead of a “strict lockdown”, to be imposed from tomorrow.

Awami League lawmaker and Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Abdul Matin Khasru, who was diagnosed with Covid-19, has been put on life support at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

Valiant freedom fighter Abdus Sabur Khan Bir Bikram passed away at a private hospital in Dhaka last night. He was 87.

A teenager died and a juvenile was injured in an attack by members of a rival teen gang in Gazipur city last night.

Around seven hundred vehicles -- 500 light and 200 goods-carrying -- are waiting at Paturia Ghat (ferry terminal) to cross the river as thousands of people are leaving Dhaka for their village homes ahead of the weeklong strict restrictions imposed by the government to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation at 7:15pm today on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh (Bangla New Year), said PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim.

A foreman died this morning after iron sheet fell on him while working at RA Shipbreaking Yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila.