Public vehicles in the port city are defying government instructions, as they are carrying more passengers than the seat capacity, contributing to further transmission of the coronavirus.

BNP yesterday expressed its hope that the government would extend the temporary release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Two people were killed in separate boat accidents on the Meghna River in the last two days.

A court in Chattogram today sent six Jamaat-e-Islami men to jail in connection with a case filed over vandalising the photos of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The High Court today sought the revised charts of fees and charges for medical tests at private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres.

Twenty-nine Indian sailors -- stranded in Bangladesh due to coronavirus outbreak -- left Dhaka on a special flight of Novoair today.

Star Cineplex at Bashundhara City Shopping Complex is closing its doors permanently.

Eighty-one Bangladeshis, who had been stranded in Vietnam and returned home by a chartered flight two weeks ago, were arrested and sent to jail today, after completion of a 14-day quarantine.

The Election Commission filed a case against JKG Health Care Chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury on the charge of possessing two National ID cards with fake information.

Five persons were stabbed in four incidents in different areas of the capital on Sunday.

Lamia Akhter, the sixth grader of Khulna city who got hit by a stray bullet on Friday, underwent successful surgery on her leg yesterday at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).

A 15-day webinar on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, organised marking his birth centenary, concluded yesterday.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) yesterday signed a contract with a Chinese joint-venture firm to procure 125 railway luggage vans to boost transportation of agro-based products.

Body of war hero and commander of Sector-4 during the country’s Liberation War, Maj Gen (retd) CR Dutta, Bir Uttam, reached the country yesterday morning from Florida, USA.

Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury yesterday proposed for a cooperation framework on education between Bangladesh and India as part of a greater goal of building a knowledge-based and democratic society.

Introduction of technical and vocational courses at all general stream schools and madrasas for developing skilled and efficient human resources will be delayed by one year, due to the coronavirus situation.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know how many Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 hospitals are operating in the country.

The trial of an arms case filed against expelled leader of Jubo Mohila League Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman began yesterday at a Dhaka tribunal with deposition of a prosecution witness.

A Dhaka court yesterday took cognisance of the charges against Partha Gopal Banik, a suspended deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, in a case filed over the recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his capital’s residence.

The government has to allocate a special fund to bring children who have dropped out, back to the classroom as many of them have been involved in income-generating work to help their families during the pandemic, speakers said at a webinar yesterday.