BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called on the government to send BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia abroad for advanced treatment for her post-Covid complications.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked all to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr at their present location to help curb the spread of coronavirus across the country.

Bus service resumed in cities across the country, including in Dhaka, today -- albeit with a limited number of passengers.

An elderly woman was dead after a motorcycle hit her in Dhaka’s Rayerbagh area this morning.

The deans' committee of Dhaka University today recommended holding final examinations -- of all academic years -- online from July 1 if the current Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh does not improve by June.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has congratulated Mamata Banerjee on her party Trinamool Congress' historic win in the West Bengal State Assembly elections and hoped to resolve outstanding issues.

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting a bumper production of Boro in the Sylhet haor area this year and hopes that farmers will collect 30,000 tonnes of paddy more than this year’s target.

Officials and employees of all government, non-government, autonomous offices and banks, financial institutions will not be allowed to leave their area of work during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday.

Two persons were killed and another was injured as a truck hit a battery-run rickshaw van at Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat this morning.

A Bangladeshi was shot dead by a group of indigenous villagers inside Indian territory near Kendribil in Sylhet's Jaintapur upazila this morning.

Bangladesh seeks adequate and sustained funding for the UN peacekeeping missions, allowing them to effectively carry out diverse mandates amid challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

China Town shopping mall in Dhaka’s Paltan area was shut down for around four hours after its authorities failed to follow health safety rules this morning.

Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan today said they are hopeful about starting railway service on Mawa-Bhanga section when the Padma bridge will open to public likely in June next year.

Rajshahi University administration suspended a syndicate meeting scheduled for today in the face of opposition from teachers.

A case was filed in connection with the speedboat accident that killed 26 people, crashing into a sand-laden bulk carrier in the Padma river in Madaripur.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir called Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal this evening to inform him of the health status of the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Bangladeshi students studying in German universities but unable to go to the country since last year amid the pandemic appealed to the German embassy in Dhaka and the foreign ministry to facilitate the student visa process as some universities asked students to attend in-person classes from next semester.

The Cabinet has decided to allow only three-day holiday for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of Muslims.

Seven global and regional human rights bodies have sent a letter to the United Nations Human Rights chief expressing concerns over the situation of media freedom in Bangladesh and urged her office to engage Bangladesh authorities to protect and respect freedom of expression.

BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has been shifted to the Coronary Care unit of Evercare Hospital in Dhaka this afternoon, as she is having breathing issues.