The civil aviation ministry yesterday decided to resume domestic flight operations on a limited scale from June 1. The resumption comes after more than two months of ban on regular passenger flights on all international and domestic routes to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.

Renowned classical musician Ustad Atiqur Rahman passed away on May 24 night, at the age of 71.

Zobeda Haque, mother of Liberation War Museum trustee Mofidul Haque, passed away at a hospital in the capital yesterday. She was 96, says a press release.

Two youths were killed and another was injured as two motorcycles collided on Minto Road in Dhaka this afternoon.

Another police officer, who was tested Covid-19 positive, died at Impulse Hospital in Dhaka.

Vernon Anthony Paul was one of the five patients who died in the fire at United Hospital. Choked in anguish, his son narrates his harrowing experience.

The five patients, who died in a fire at United Hospital last night, were kept at a makeshift isolation centre which was "very risky", a top official of Fire Service and Civil Defence has claimed.

Action will be taken against United Hospital, if the probe committee finds any negligence by the authorities in yesterday’s fire incident, Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam has warned.

Public transport—road, rail, and waterway -- will resume but on a limited scale from May 31 with strict adherence to some conditions, according to a gazette issued by the Cabinet division today.

Around five lakh people in two coastal areas of Satkhira district have been living in submerged areas since May 20, as cyclone Amphan badly damaged large portions of two embankments in those areas.

Anisur Rahman Selim, an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation, yesterday confessed to a magistrate that he was the mastermind behind the murder of his senior colleague, executive engineer Delwar Hossain.

The Fire Service and Civil Defence authority has formed a committee to investigate the fire at United Hospital in Gulshan, Dhaka that left five patients dead last night.

Five people died in a fire that broke out at the Corona Isolation Unit of United Hospital in Dhaka.

National Bank Limited, a concern of Sikder Group of Companies, today sent an explanation to The Daily Star after the newspaper published on its online version a news report with the headline “Case filed over attempt to shoot Exim Bank top officials”.

At least 15 people have died of probable ethanol poisoning in Rangpur and Dinajpur between Monday night and Wednesday afternoon.

Students, faculty and board of directors of Sunnydale School mourn the death of renowned educationist and founding principal of Sunbeams School, Niloufer Manzur.

A nor’wester accompanied by rain and gusty wind has swept the capital.

Exim Bank authorities have filed a case with Gulshan Police Station against the managing director of Sikder Group of Companies for allegedly torturing two top officials of the bank and attempting to shoot them.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses deep shock and sorrow at the death of Niloufer Manzur, a renowned educationist and the founding principal of Dhaka’s Sunbeams School.

The health ministry asks the Chattogram district administration to acquire two private hospitals in the port city for treatment of patients infected with Covid-19.