A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was forced to return to Dhaka after it failed to land in Kathmandu Airport today.

At least 10 people, including five police personnel, were injured in a clash between BNP activists and police in the port city’s Kazir Deuri area today.

Officials of the health desk and the Dhaka airport authority today gave contradictory statements on how many days a London-returnee passenger will have to stay in institutional quarantine.

At the moment, government is not considering general holidays or closure like last year to tackle the transmission of coronavirus, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain said today.

The Directorate General of Health Services today mentioned 29 districts -- considered “risk areas”-- with higher transmission of Covid-19.

Admission tests for MBBS and BDS courses will be held as per previous schedule, maintaining health guidelines, though the government has restricted all kinds of mass gatherings to curb the virus transmission, a health official said today.

A three-member probe committee has been formed to investigate yesterday’s mayhem by Qawmi madrasa-based organisation Hefajat-e-Islam in Brahmanbaria.

Rail communication on Dhaka-Chattogram, Dhaka-Sylhet, and Dhaka-Noakhali routes resumed 12 hours after suspension yesterday.

A faction of Bangladesh Chhatra Union announced that the organisation’s 41st central council will be held on April 12.

Over 400 people have been sued in a case filed over attacking police, vandalising their van, and torching two motorcycles in Habiganj’s Ajmeriganj upazila.

A union parishad member and his men have allegedly attacked the family and vandalised the house of a local Hindu leader in Pabna’s Sathiya upazila.

A woman, who suffered burn injuries following a gas cylinder explosion in Biswanath upazila of Sylhet district one week ago, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.

Three organisations of Rajshahi University (RU) employees laid siege to the university’s administrative building this morning, demanding easy corporate loan with low interest rate.

Gas supply -- both residential and commercial -- in Brahmanbaria municipality area was suspended since last night due to a technical glitch.

A case has been filed in connection with the clash at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area in Dhaka on March 26.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon all to establish the spirit of Islam at personal, social and national levels and shun religious prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

Chattogram-Khagrachhari regional highway, which was blocked since Friday after the clash between police and Hefazat activist, was opened to traffic after 72 hours.

Miscreants today set fire to Music maestro Ustad Alauddin Khan’s music academy “Sur Samrat Alauddin Sangeetangon” in Brahmanbaria’s Kumarshil area.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) today imposed a ban on carrying all types of explosives and crackers, as well as explosion of firecrackers, in the capital on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Barat, to be observed tomorrow night.

At least 10 vehicles were set on fire by Hefajat-e-Islam activists on Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet highways in Narayanganj this evening.