A total of 34 accused in 18 different cases got bail from five virtual courts in Dhaka yesterday, on the first day of online hearing.

Police yesterday shut down the Bangabazar market and two fashion outlets in the capital for flouting health safety directives to prevent transmission of coronavirus.

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam takes charge of office today while his counterpart for south city corporation Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh will assume office on May 16.

A prisoner of Sylhet Central Jail died at the isolation centre of Sylhet Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital on Sunday.

After being stranded in Lalmonirhat’s Burimari land port for 38 days, sixty-one Indian truck drivers were sent back home this afternoon.

Japan handed over 2,000 sets of high quality personal protective equipment to the health and family welfare ministry today as part of its support to Bangladesh in fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic.

After a break of 46 days, lawyers yesterday started filing cases with the High Court for virtual hearing and disposal, amid the ongoing closure stemmed out of coronavirus outbreak.

To reduce exposure to Covid-19 infection, police have introduced an app and mobile shop to reach daily commodities to the doorsteps of Dhaka residents.

A quizzical rate of positive results of Covid-19 test results at Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) has caused some alarm, after 53 out of 97 samples showed positive on Sunday, and 40 out of 61 samples showed positive on Thursday.

A total of 114 Bangladeshi nationals stranded in the UK returned home yesterday by a charter flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines amid flight suspension due to Covid-19 pandemic.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition seeking its directive on the authorities concerned of the government to immediately take necessary steps to prevent killing dolphins in Halda river in Chattogram and to protect them.

Some 829 public and private university teachers yesterday in a joint statement said private university authorities can pay salaries to their teachers and staff using their reserve funds.

Doctors are cautiously optimistic that the health condition of National Professor Anisuzzaman, being treated at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), will be stabilised, said his family yesterday.

A total of 829 public and private university teachers in a joint statement says that authorities of private universities should use the institutions’ reserve funds to pay salaries of their teachers and staff.

Hundreds of workers of a factory in Chattogram city stage a demonstration, demanding their due salaries for last two months.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court has started its virtual court proceedings through videoconferencing, amid the nationwide shutdown induced by the coronavirus pandemic.

A bag containing approximately Tk 80 lakh cash allegedly went missing from a vehicle of National Bank during money collection from the bank’s Old Dhaka branch.

Health condition of National Professor Anisuzzaman remains unchanged, his family said today.

Unknown criminals brutally killed a student of class three and left the body near a canal in Jashore’s Chaugachha area this morning.

The youngest son of Awami League leader and former Chattogram city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury has tested positive for Covid-19.