Bangladesh’s economic growth would weaken further to 1.6 percent in the current fiscal year, the World Bank said yesterday as it revised its prospects revealing a far deeper impact of the coronavirus pandemic than it had initially thought.

The Covid-19 infection in the country has increased fourfold in the last one month with 3,171 infections recorded yesterday -- by far the highest total for one day.

The capital’s East Rajabazar was put under lockdown yesterday midnight on an experimental basis as part of government efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

One can only hope, is what one would remark once learning of Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s revenue target for the upcoming fiscal year, due to begin from July 1.

Police arrested nine people, including a ruling Awami League leader and a journalist, on Sunday night on charge of attacking the house of Faridpur AL president.

The health ministry will not see a significant rise in allocation in the upcoming budget amid Covid-19 pandemic mainly due to its lack of capacity to utilise funds, say planning ministry officials.

The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) has filed a case against the owner of Elan Corporation for importing “substandard” KN-95 masks by showing “fake documents”.

Ten countries of South Asia, Middle East and Latin America have seen a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases over the last couple of weeks, according to World Health Organization data.

A glimmer of hope just appeared for the bruised and battered economy: exports seem to be looking up.

Faruk Mia came to Dhaka on Saturday, all the way from Narsingdi, to buy an oxygen cylinder for his 65-year-old ailing father as it could not be managed in his district.

Bangladesh has written to Kuwait seeking to know why lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam, also known as Kazi Papul, has been arrested.

Demonstrators filled the streets in major cities around the world yesterday, staging some of the most peaceful protests against racism following the death of unarmed African American George Floyd at the hands of police.

A police official was arrested in Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazila last night for allegedly assaulting a farmer who died of his injuries on Wednesday evening at the Dhaka Pangu hospital.

Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing, who tested Covid-19 positive, was admitted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka yesterday, said Aung Swi Prue Marma, civil surgeon of Bandarban.

Transnational human traffickers used the United Arab Emirates as a major transit point to send Bangladeshi job-seekers to Libya via Amman, according to officials of the Detective Branch of police.

The country yesterday recorded 42 deaths due to Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day.

A Bangladeshi lawmaker has been arrested in Kuwait over alleged involvement in human trafficking and money laundering.

Facing setbacks in its plan to enforce containment zones in four districts from yesterday, the government is now working to impose a total lockdown in areas that will be marked red and partially in the ones marked yellow in a day or two.

In the wake of rising Covid-19 deaths and infections across the country, the government today starts enforcing containment zones on a pilot basis in some areas of four districts, including Dhaka.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Shafiqul Islam has sought transfer of a joint commissioner of the unit on charge of offering him bribe.