Zead Al Malum, a senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), died tonight. He was 67.

The authorities of Chittagong University today decided to postpone all exams indefinitely due to the deteriorating Covid-19 situation in the country.

The countrywide "complete lockdown" will be enforced from July 1 (Thursday), not from Monday (June 28), SK Rafiqul Islam, Additional Secretary of District and Field Admin Wing of the Cabinet Division, told The Daily Star this evening.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon all to protect farmland for sustainable agriculture.

Jashore’s road communication with other districts was cut off this afternoon ahead of the countrywide complete lockdown from Monday to curb the surge of Covid-19.

The Dhaka University authorities have asked all concerned departments to hold final examinations of all academic years online as the Covid-19 situation in the country has deteriorated.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has wondered why Bangladeshis are trying to reach Europe illegally, risking their lives, despite the country's huge economic progress.

All public and private services in the country will be available online by 2025, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said while addressing a virtual programme as chief guest at the launch of the Institute of Business Analysis’s (IIBA) Bangladesh chapter last night.

Crowds are forming at Shimulia and Banglabazar ferry ghat as the government has declared a seven-day complete lockdown from Monday.

Police today arrested another Indian citizen on charge of entering Bangladesh without proper documents and visiting the Padma bridge site in Shariatpur’s Jajira late at night.

A total of 300 more distressed and low-income people including tailors, rickshaw-pullers and transgender individuals hardest-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic were given financial assistance as gift from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A van driver was killed after a pick-up van hit his vehicle in Dhaka’s Natun Bazar area this morning.

Mehdadur Rahman Durand, Deputy Managing Director of Uttara Group who sustained burns in a fire at his Gulshan home a week ago, died at a hospital early today.

As the government has declared seven-day complete lockdown from Monday, people are rushing to leave Dhaka but they are suffering on roads as all long-route buses from the capital remains suspended from June 23 to stem the surge in Covid infections and deaths.

A bridge on Chawra canal, in Mahishdanga area of Barguna's ​​Amtali upazila, collapsed last evening. At least 25,000 people from six neighbouring villages used the bridge on a regular basis.

Speakers at a views exchange meeting today underscored the need to allocate adequate compensation from the state fund for torture victims and their families.

China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd has announced Tk two lakh reward for information on Chinese engineer Zhao Jianpeng (26), who went missing from Lauhajang upazila of Munshiganj on the night of June 22 while working in the Padma Bridge project.

Tunisian authorities on Thursday rescued 267 migrants, most of them Bangladeshis, who tried to sail from neighbouring Libya to Italy across the Mediterranean, reports AFP quoting the International Organization for Migration.

The World Bank’s board of executive directors has approved a $191 million credit to Bangladesh and a $18 million grant to Afghanistan to help the countries strengthen the higher education sector and respond better to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A study conducted by Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) revealed that millions of urban and new poor created by the pandemic remain unaddressed by the government’s social protection programmes.