India has handed over Risaldar Moslehuddin, a key conspirator convicted for assassinating Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, to Bangladesh, Indian officials say.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Joypurhat.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih expresses his gratitude to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sending medical equipment and relief materials to his country to face the Covid-19 situation there.

Re-excavation work of 10 canals in the district has begun recently, bringing new hope for farmers.

Over 1 lakh handloom and power loom workers, the ones that weave the famous Tangail saris, are in dire need of help after they went out of work since their factories were shuttered nearly a month ago amid the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus.

Everything has come to a halt due to the countrywide shutdown to flatten the spread of highly contagious Covid-19.

As many as 536 permanent workers of Kaliti tea garden in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila are passing days amid utter hardship as they have not been paid for the last 13 weeks.

A total of 254 Bangladeshis who were stranded in India, Maldives and Turkey for over a month, return home on three separate special flights.

One of the largest hospitals dedicated to treating coronavirus patients is set to start operations soon at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) located in Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka.

A man is killed and at least 24 others injured as two groups of villagers locked into a clash at Bhanga upazila in Faridpur.

Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB) urges the authorities concerned of the government to ensure relief or ration to those in remote areas and indigenous people during the coronavirus outbreak.

A Bogura court today sent a fifty-year-old man to jail for raping a domestic help in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against a Union Parishad chairman of Perli in Narail for misappropriating 2,550 kg of rice meant for relief.

Bogura district will be brought under lockdown from today to combat the spread of coronavirus.

Visitors of Pakshey railway office in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila are often surprised to see the awful condition of five graves of Liberation War martyrs near the Pakshey divisional railway office, often try to read the nearly deleted plaques.

It has been more than two weeks when they came to Bangladesh’s Burimari land port in Patgram with their trucks carrying jute seeds imported from India. But 61 drivers of the vehicles from that country are still stranded there.

Once unproductive and full of water hyacinth, a five-decimal pond at Moulvibazar’s Nuna village has become the centre of attention in the region, as a youth successfully farmed pearls in the waterbody.

In Chong Mro, a Jhum farmer of remote Langkom Mro Para under Lama upazila of Bandarban, is worried about arranging food for his family as their earning virtually stopped during the ongoing lockdown imposed to check the spread of novel coronavirus.

Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra and a faction of Dhaka Union of Journalists demand withdrawal of the case filed against four persons including editors of two online news portals under the controversial Digital Security Act after the media outlets ran reports on misappropriation of OMS rice in Thakurgaon's Baliadangi upazila recently.

The government is set to launch a short code 333#5 for farmers to sell their produce using the platform, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak says.