Four people were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Nawabganj road in Keraniganj this morning.

Election in Pabna’s Sujanagar municipality began this morning amid risk of Covid-19 spread.

Police recovered the body of a local journalist from his office in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram last night.

Rohingyas, now living in Bhasan Char, today interacted with visiting foreign diplomats and expressed their willingness to return to their homeland, Myanmar.

The authority of Brahmanbaria municipality has suspended all activities for indefinite period due to the severe damages caused by Hefajat-e-Islam activists and supporters.

An addict son allegedly stabbed his mother to death as she was unable to give him money for drugs at Pashchim Mithapukur area in Panchagarh municipality this afternoon.

Ambassadors and High Commissioners of Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America today visited Bhasan Char to see the facilities in place for the Rohingyas.

BNP today applied to Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to nominate its MP Barrister Rumeen Farhana as its whip in the parliament.

Some 199 women and 153 girls were subjected to different forms of violence in March this year in the country, says a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad.

Many people are leaving Dhaka and thronged to the inter-district bus terminals and Sadarghat launch terminal in the city, after the news of possible lockdown from Monday was published in the media today, as they think once the lockdown is imposed it would be extended.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan today said they will not operate passenger trains once lockdown is imposed.

Terming Hefajat-e-Islam an "anti-Islamic" group, Awami League MP Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim today told the Parliament that Hefajat is a "militant and anti-liberation" element.

At least 250 people were sued in a case filed over yesterday’s clash between police and Hefajat supporters on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur.

All professional final examinations of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) scheduled for tomorrow (Sunday) under the Dhaka University-affiliated medical colleges have been postponed.

Child Daycare Centre Bill-2021 was placed in the parliament today to support the children of working women.

The ‘Mongla Port Authority Bill, 2021’ was placed in the Parliament today with a provision for tougher punishment for polluting environment.

The government has decided to impose a seven-day countrywide lockdown from Monday (April 5), considering the current Covid-19 situation, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

The mayor of Washington DC has declared March 26, the Independence Day of Bangladesh, as "Bangladesh Day."

The Chattogram district administration yesterday instructed that all sorts of shops and restaurants will close by 6:00pm till April 14 to curb the spread of coronavirus.

A record surge in fresh Covid-19 cases in the country has forced authorities concerned to close the Bangladesh National Zoo in the capital's Mirpur as well as Rangpur Zoo.