About 13,000 drivers of CNG-run three-wheelers in the country are among this vulnerable group. They have mostly remained out of the radar of aid. The government’s assistance or wealthy people’s financial help have hardly reached them. Having exhausted meagre savings and loans from relatives, they’re bracing themselves for the seemingly inevitable.

The district agriculture extension office in Pabna says 22 to 25 percent of litchis -- worth around Tk 154 crore -- had been damaged by the strong winds whipped up by cyclone Amphan.

Nine more bodies have been recovered in Jashore, raising the death toll from super cyclone Amphan to 21 in Bangladesh.

Law Minister Anisul Huq distributes relief materials worth Tk 2.81 crore among 40,000 poor and helpless families at his Kasba and Akhaura constituency in Brahmanbaria since March 24 to tackle the crisis stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.

The government is releasing 17 prisoners, who were serving time for minor offences, ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Some 87 percent of returnee migrant workers do not have income opportunities now amid the shutdown enforced to contain coronavirus spread, says a survey report of Brac Migration Programme.

Egg collectors in Halda River have been delighted by what is this decade’s record haul of eggs in the lone natural breeding ground of carp-like fish in South Asia.

The fisheries and livestock ministry asks the disaster management and relief ministry to provide financial support, including interest-free loans, to farmers and entrepreneurs to offset their losses caused by cyclone Amphan.

Police recovered a bullet-hit body of a youth, aged around 24, at a Jaoban area, adjacent to Cox’s Bazar Beach early this morning.

Police arrested an 80-year-old man on charges of raping a six-year-old in Narayanganj Sadar upazila early today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun says that people can go to their village homes on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr using “personal” vehicles following health directives.

Fish farmers of Bagerhat suffer losses worth Tk two crore ninety lakh after Cyclone Amphan washed away almost 4,635 fish and shrimp enclosures in the district, according to the estimation by the authorities.

Kamrun Nahar Putul, a former Awami League lawmaker of the Bogura-Joypurhat reserved seat for women, tested Covid-19 positive following her death at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogura.

An alleged serial rapist was killed in a “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion at Madhumita rail track area in East Tongi at Gazipur early today.

Police claim to have arrested three people, including an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC), in connection with the killing of the city corporation’s executive engineer.

The budget dialogue is a webinar series organised by the Youth Policy Forum (YPF) to analyse Bangladesh’s upcoming national budget with field experts and policy teams and for their first discussion, they covered the healthcare sector.

One lakh twenty thousand metric tonnes of mango, which amounts to ten percent of the country’s annual production, was damaged in the gusty winds brought by the mighty Cyclone Amphan.

M Shamsul Alam, one of the pioneers of the country’s insurance sector, breathed his last on May 20 at the age of 83.

Beximco Pharmaceuticals has introduced generic remdesivir for Covid-19 treatment.

Thirteen people were killed as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway under Palashbari upazila in Gaibandha today.