Police today recovered the burnt body of a worker from a bakery that caught fire in Nager Bazar of Bagerhat town last night.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said 36.25 lakh poor families will get financial assistance as gift from the Prime Minister on the occasion of the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.

In total, 512 poor families received rice relief from the district administration in Chandpur today.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken Bangladesh to a new height of international diplomacy with her characteristic conviction and patience.

Joint Secretary General of Hefajat-e-Islam Mamunul Haque was arrested from a madrasa in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area around 12pm today.

As the "strict lockdown" rolled into the fifth day, public movement and vehicles increased on most streets in Dhaka on the first day of the week.

A total of 3,562 people were sued in two cases filed in connection with yesterday’s clash between police and workers of coal-based SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, which left five workers dead.

Rickshaw pullers in Barishal today staged a procession demanding relief and rations amid the “strict lockdown”, imposed to curb Covid-19 transmission.

Two people were killed, and 10 were injured, as two pick-up vans collided on Satkhira-Khulna highway in Subhashini area of Tala upazila under Satkhira today.

Police have recovered the body of Tareq Shamsur Rahman, a retired professor of International Relations Department, Jahangirnagar University, from his Uttara residence in Dhaka this morning.

People in Khulna were seemingly not abiding by the rules of “strict lockdown” on the fourth day despite an alarming number of infections in the city.

At least five coal-based power plant workers were killed and 15 were injured during a clash with police in Chattogram’s Banshkhali area this morning.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran today highlighted the significance of the historic Mujibnagar Day, which falls on April 17, and said the Mujibnagar government played a historic role in the freedom struggle of Bangladesh.

One of the shipbreaking workers who suffered burn injuries in an explosion at Jamuna Shipbreakers in Chattogram’s Sitakunda died today while undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Burn Institute in Dhaka.

Police recovered a touchstone statue of Lord Vishnu from a brick field at Jamun village in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon this afternoon.

A Bangladeshi artist and developer teamed up with the support of Facebook to develop an Augmented Reality (AR) filter for Bangla New Year.

With love, respect and grief, people from all walks of life bade farewell to Awami League lawmaker and president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Abdul Matin Khasru today.

From March 26 to 28, Hefajat-e-Islam activists attacked and vandalised 58 government and non-government institutions, two temples, and houses and offices of top leaders of the district Awami League and Chhatra League in Brahmanbaria.

Today marks the second day of a nationwide “all-out lockdown” to curb Covid-19 infections. Amid the lockdown, hospitals, banks, and industries are still open.

There is thin presence of people on the roads in most cities and towns in the country during the second day of the seven-day "strict lockdown", imposed from April 14.