Six people were found fatally shot in a suburban Dallas home in Texas early Monday after police say two brothers made a pact to kill four family members and die by suicide.

Abdur Razzaq, father of writer Mushtaq Ahmed who was arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act and later died in jail, passed away tonight at 8:40pm following a heart attack.

A case was filed against Hefajat-e Islam Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque and 16 other people with Paltan Model Police Station last night.

India tonight conveyed its condolence to Bangladesh over the loss of lives in a ferry disaster in Shitalakhya river in Narayanganj district, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

Police have arrested a man from Bagerhat in connection with a case filed for killing his four-month-old child.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel was relieved from his post.

A mild earthquake jolted the northern districts of Bangladesh including Rajshahi and Dinajpur tonight.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-14) today arrested a youth who they claim was involved in vandalising the mural of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Brahmanbaria during the strike enforced by Hefajat-e-Islam on March 28.

The death toll from yesterday’s launch capsize in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj reached 29 after two more bodies were recovered from the river this evening.

A total of 272 Bangladeshi migrant workers were repatriated from Lebanon today amid a ban on arrivals from the middle-eastern country due to the rapid surge in Coronavirus infections.

Twenty-one policemen and two drivers were injured when a bus collided with two pick-up vans in Brahmanbaria this morning.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs today issued new guidelines on performing prayers in mosques in an emergency notification to curb the spike in Covid-19 infections in the country.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice on the government to take necessary steps in 15 days to end any discrimination between public and private female service holders regarding maternity leave.

At least 513 people, including 63 children, were killed and 598 were injured in 409 road accidents across the country in March, Road Safety Foundation, a non-government organisation, said today.

Since the beginning of the second wave of pandemic in early March, Bangladesh has witnessed a jump in the daily coronavirus infection at an alarming rate. Hospital beds and ICUs have been occupied within a short span of time. Death rates are skyrocketing. UK and South African strains have been detected in the samples from the travellers. Has UK or South African variant spread within the community? Why are we suddenly seeing the rapid surge of infection? These questions have no clear answers yet.

The Road Transport and Bridges Minister gave an announcement about an imminent lockdown on April 3. The government-announced restrictions on April 4 avoided the word lockdown, instead, it specified some directives. Although it is a bit late, the fact that the government has taken the Coronavirus infection issue seriously is reflected in the restrictions that have been imposed. Public transport, movement on roads and waterways, as well as domestic flights will mostly be halted.

Mobile courts in Khulna and Savar today conducted drives and handed down sentences and fine for those found violating the restrictions placed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said that establishing peace is a prerequisite to ensure development.

Two convicted prisoners died at Dhaka hospitals this morning.

Twenty-two more bodies were recovered after a Munshiganj-bound launch, which capsized in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj with over 50 passengers yesterday, was pulled out from the water this morning.