Fifty-year-old man Abdus Salam had been suffering from chronic kidney disease and needed routine dialysis.

An elderly man died on Friday, a day after he had been beaten by a Jubo League leader’s father following a dispute over money in Narayanganj city.

Legendary Indian composer and Oscar-BAFTA-Grammy winner AR Rahman has joined noted Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s next film No Land’s Man, as co-producer and composer.

A timber trader was murdered in Barishal city on Friday night and two people were arrested in this connection hours later.

Speakers during a virtual seminar yesterday urged the government to protect coastal people by providing budgetary allocation for embankment under the local government.

As Covid-19 cases and fatalities continue to rise alarmingly in Bangladesh, the government has taken all necessary preparations to bring some virus hotspots (‘red zone’) under lockdown and declaring general holidays there to prevent entry to and exit from those areas.

As coronavirus cases and fatalities continue to rise in Bangladesh, the government has taken all necessary preparations to bring hotspots (red zone) under lockdown and will declare closure in those areas to prevent entry and exit.

Four Supreme Court lawyers have filled a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directives on the government to ensure that no public or private hospital refuses to provide treatment to any patient -- coronavirus infected or general -- across the country.

Senior journalist Moazzem Hossain Nannu passes away at the intensive care unit of Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.

A university student was killed and another person injured in a road accident in Birol upazila of Dinajpur yesterday afternoon.

The government will take steps to send returnee migrant workers overseas again after providing them with training and helping develop their skills based on changing demands in post-pandemic international labour market, expatriates’ welfare minister Imran Ahmad said on Thursday.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Bangladesh Judicial Service Association and Universal Medical College Hospital Ltd in order to provide treatment to the lower court judges across the country for Covid-19 and other diseases.

Dhaka University’s annual senate session is going to be held tomorrow, but the university’s annual budget is not ready yet.

Abul Khair Group has come forward to ease the oxygen crisis by supplying a bulk amount of oxygen to hospitals for free to support coronavirus patients in Chattogram.

A total of 880 children are still detained in three “Shishu Unnayan Kendra” (children development centres) in connection with different criminal cases, even after 489 were granted bail in last 20 working days.

A bird taking flight is an exquisite and miraculous event. Raising its wings, it spreads them while kicking off with its feet to sail through the air. The swift and energetic display has visual drama. Capturing it on camera is a challenge for the photographer, mainly because one cannot predict the precise moment of takeoff.

Dhaka North City Corporation authorities are continuing their anti-mosquito drive for the seventh day today and have fined houses and establishments Tk 3.7 lakh for presence of Aedes mosquito larvae.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and his wife Laila Arjuman Banu tested positive for Covid-19 today, according to a press release issued by the ministry.

One new dengue case has been reported in the country in the 24 hours till 8:00am this morning, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the proposed budget for fiscal year 2020-21 is a balanced one made to help the country’s economy recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.