As the economic effects of the lockdown intensifies, lower to middle income people of Khulna keep finding it harder and harder to meet their grocery bills. In such a dire time, subsidised daily necessities courtesy of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) should be a saving grace. But its shortage in its stocks compared to the people’s needs.

Yesterday was the last day of this year’s Ekushey Boimela. Marked by a delayed start and a lockdown announcement midway, the book fair -- originally scheduled to end on April 14 -- ended two days earlier due to the surge in Covid-19 cases across the country.

Attorney General AM Amin Uddin yesterday said the state will take necessary initiative for the Supreme Court’s hearing on the 2017 review petition challenging its verdict which upheld the cancellation of the 16th constitutional amendment that restored parliament’s power to remove judges for incapacity or misconduct.

An employee of Ekushey Television was run over by a train, while talking on mobile phone, in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area this morning.

A man died in the Double Mooring area of Agrabad in Chattogram this morning after a wall collapsed on him while painting it.

At least three workers sustained burn injuries in an explosion while working at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

At least 10 journalists, who were sacked from daily Janakantha recently, were injured in an attack during a protest in front of the newspaper’s office in Dhaka’s Eskaton area yesterday afternoon. ===-

Leaders and activists of left-leaning student organisations yesterday demanded that the government build a field hospital to deal with the Covid-19 situation.

Another case has been filed against “Shishu Bokta” Rafiqul Islam Madani under the Digital Security Act in Gazipur.

A 16-year-old who works as domestic help was abducted and raped in the port city’s Akbarshah area.

Works of the fast-track projects will continue amid the strict lockdown to be imposed from Wednesday to contain the sharp rise of Covid-19 cases and deaths.

A controversy has stirred up centring a painting of celebrated writer, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed that either got lost or stolen during the time of his death in USA in 2012, and has now resurfaced in Cumilla after almost nine years.

Pregnant mothers, mothers with newborns, children below five years of age, patients needing emergency care and those with chronic illnesses,

It is very important to work in an integrated way to control the price hike of essentials during the upcoming month of Ramadan, said speakers at a webinar yesterday.

With hospitals across the country, particularly in the capital, struggling to cope with a surging number of Covid-19 patients, the severely curtailed lifespan of a facility opened last year exactly for this purpose has drawn staunch criticism

Demolition process of a five-storey tilted building in Chattogram city started in the afternoon yesterday.

Process for demolishing a five-storey building, which tilted at Enayetbazar-Gowalpara area in Chattogram city last night, started today.

A man was found dead in a pond in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

A doctor died of Covid-19 at a private hospital in Chattogram city on Friday night, aged 65.

AKM Rafique Ahmed, director general of the Depart-ment of Environment (DoE), died yesterday with Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at Central