Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a video conference with the public representatives and officials of eight districts of Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions today on the present coronavirus situation in the country.

With several thousand Bangladeshis passing days in hardship in stranded situations in India for over a month, the government yesterday urged Bangladeshi citizens to have patience, assuring them of their gradual repatriation after bringing back patients from South India.

While it may sound reassuring to hear that Sylhet division has 589 beds dedicated to treating Covid-19 patients in isolation centres. However, that enthusiasm might start to fade in the face of some details -- out of these 589, only two are ICU beds.

Voluntary organisation Swapno Chaka has taken an initiative to deliver food among middle-income families for free, who cannot publicly seek support over the financial crisis following the coronavirus outbreak.

Four people have died of coronavirus-like symptoms in Khulna, Khagrachhari, Noakhali and Bogura since last night.

For the last one month, while about 500 ultra-poor people in Rajshahi’s Godagari were waiting to buy their shares of government allocated relief rice at Tk 10 per kg, a local rice dealer had been refusing them.

An alleged yaba trader is killed in a “gunfight” with Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) members in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

The government has urged Bangladeshi citizens stuck in India to have patience, assuring them of their gradual repatriation after bringing back patients from South India.

Voluntary organisation Swapno Chaka has taken an initiative to deliver food among middle-income families who cannot publicly seek support over the financial crisis following the coronavirus outbreak.

Voluntary organisation Swapno Chaka has taken an initiative to deliver food among middle-class families that cannot publicly seek support over the financial crisis following the coronavirus outbreak.

Like the kingfisher dive-bombs into rivers to prey on small fish, these boys plunge into the Kirtankhola to collect stray watermelons every day of the season.

As the clock hits 12:30pm, a group of people can be seen busily organising meal-plates at the Mazaa restaurant in front of Mohammadpur Tajmahal Road’s Krishi Market.

Law Minister Anisul Huq’s mother Jahanara Huq died yesterday at a hospital in the capital. She was 86.

Some employees of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) yesterday assaulted a journalist while they were selling locally-brewed alcohol at its Barishal office, defying the ongoing shutdown.

The law ministry has opened a national helpline -- 16430 -- to provide legal aid to the poor, especially the labourers, without any cost during the ongoing crisis.

Four special flights will be operated from Dhaka to London between April 21 and 26 to take back British citizens and their direct dependants.

Around a thousand fish egg collectors at Halda river, a unique natural breeding ground for carp fish in South Asia, are hoping for a high yield this year due to drop in pollution following the countrywide shutdown to tackle Covid-19.

A coalition of leading development organisations yesterday called on the government and other development actors to prioritise needs of the marginalised by taking comprehensive, inclusive and far-sighted measures to protect them amid the evolving coronavirus situation.

With coronavirus positive cases increasing in the country, many are expressing dissatisfaction over the small number of tests being conducted every day and wondering about the possible reason behind this.

Mobile courts under Dhaka District Administration today fined 61 people nearly Tk 71,800 for ignoring government directives on physical distancing in Dhaka and nearby areas.