The government is giving Tk 10,000 as grant to 1,500 journalists each at the primary stage during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud told parliament yesterday.

Former Bangla Academy Director General Prof Shamshuzzaman Khan yesterday returned to his old workplace, but at a new capacity.

At least ten people died after showing Covid-19-like symptoms in four districts between Sunday and yesterday morning.

Detectives arrested an alleged member of a human trafficker gang in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh early yesterday.

Layla Arjumand Banu, wife of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, died of coronavirus this morning. She was 71.

Rab yesterday pressed charges against Jubo Mohila League’s expelled leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman in an arms case.Sub-inspector Arifuzzaman, who is also the case’s investigation officer, submitted the charge sheet against the couple to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Australian High Commission jointly handed over personal protective equipment to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday.

The government approved two more foreign airlines -- Turkish Airlines and Air Arabia -- to operate regular flights to and from Dhaka.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court today seeking necessary action against three private hospitals for refusing to provide treatment to a patient and for charging extra from another patient.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh asks elderly people not to go to cattle markets this year to avoid getting infected with coronavirus.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today pressed charges against JuboMohila League's expelled leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman in an arms case.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Australian High Commission jointly handed over personal protective equipment to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today.

The High Court today directed the United Hospital authorities to provide compensation through amicable settlement to families of the victims who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27.

Grameenphone has filed a writ petition with the High Court, challenging legality of BTRC’s decision that imposed two new restrictions on the country’s leading mobile operator.

The forest department has decided to ban the netting of fishes from all rivers and canals in the Sundarbans for the next two months, starting July 1.

The government has given permission to two more foreign air operators -- Turkish Airlines and Air Arabia -- to operate regular flights to and from Dhaka from July 1.

Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, senior secretary of the defence ministry, dies of Covid-19 at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.

Layla Arjumand Banu, wife of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, has died of coronavirus at the age of 71.

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 30 people after a launch capsized in Buriganga river at Dhaka's Shyambazar.

Writer Barun Das, an employee of Bangladesh Betar, has breathed his last on Thursday afternoon after suffering a cardiac arrest.