People are not getting any respite from the heatwave sweeping across the country in the next two days, says the Met Office.

The government has issued a gazette notification, extending the ongoing restrictions -- till May 5 -- imposed on public and vehicular movement to prevent the surge of coronavirus cases.

A fire that broke out at Bandura Bazar in Dhaka's Nawabganj upazila has been doused. The blaze gutted at least nine buses and several shops.

A strong earthquake, measuring 6.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, was felt in different parts of the country including Dhaka this morning.

University Grants Commission (UGC) has found an unauthorised study centre -- London School of Commerce, Dhaka -- and urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to close the centre.

Detectives have identified at least 313 persons who used to provide funds to Hefajat-e-Islam, which carried out violence and vandalism across the country in March this year.

Twenty-one days after the authorities claimed that none of its students took part in March 26 vandalism and arson, Al Jamia Al Islamia Al Yunusiya Madrasa expelled 20 students for allegedly taking part in the mayhem in Brahmanbaria.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today provided Tk 10 crore as assistance to the country’s journalists during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chinese State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe arrived in Dhaka this morning on a brief visit.

Md Abdur Rahim, officer-in-charge of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station, has been transferred.

Police recovered the body of a young girl from a rented flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area last night.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has expressed his deep condolence over the loss of lives at the tragic disappearance of an Indonesian submarine.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina recommended the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) to take four measures today, including one that will help the developed world, development partners and international financial institutions (IFIs) to come forward and ensure quick recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.

Police have arrested 10 activists of Hefajat-e-Islam including its Brahmanbaria district unit’s assistant publicity affairs secretary Mufti Maulana Zakaria Khan in connection with the mayhem in the district from March 26 to 28.

Crowds at shopping centres and malls have increased sharply, just a day after the government allowed shops and malls to reopen their doors ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Bangladesh has seen an exceptional growth in the number of social media users in the past year.

One person was electrocuted while working at an under-construction flyover in Chattogram’s Patenga early today.

State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian has announced Tk 2 lakh compensation for the family of each victim who died in a clash with police in Chattogram’s Banshkhali coal-based power plant.

One of the 11 members of two families, who suffered injuries after a gas explosion at a building in Narayanganj Sadar upazila, died at a hospital in Dhaka this morning.

Hours after dissolving its central committee, Hefajat-e-Islam announced a five-member convening committee.