Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said all public transport would be operated during the Eid-ul-Azha vacation.

Regent Group chairman Md Shahed claimed that he is Covid-19 positive and has been unwell for the last one and a half months.

Two police personnel, who earlier tested positive for Covid-19, have died at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.

The government has set the merchandise export target at $41 billion for fiscal 2020–21.

Two persons are killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Airport and Uttara area.

India’s first locally-developed vaccine to combat pneumonia has been given the green signal for production by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), according to the health ministry.

The death rate for Covid-19 intensive care patients has dropped by about one-third since the start of the pandemic, due at least in part to better hospital care, a review of published studies found.

Twitter says hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform's top voices including US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former US President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency.

Regent Group chairman Md Shahed and its managing director Masud Parvez have been placed on 10-day remand each in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 test results and charging patients for the tests and treatment, violating an agreement with the government.

Inland waterways development between Bangladesh and India can become a vital and cost effective way of multimodal connectivity that can improve economic wellbeing of people from both countries, policymakers and experts have said.

The number of children worldwide getting life-saving vaccinations has declined this year largely because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization and UNICEF warn.

Former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University (DU) Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique has been made chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the state-run news agency.

The flood situation in Jamalpur worsened as the Jamuna river waters rose 126 cm above danger mark at Bahadurabad Ghat point in Dewanganj upazila of the district as of this noon, according to the Water Development Board.

Canada’s efforts to flatten the curve of coronavirus cases have put the country on the cusp of zero deaths from Covid-19 for the first time since March, but officials see worrying signs of a new spike as provinces lift restrictions.

To help small and medium businesses recover from the fallout due to the Covid-19 crisis, ShopUp has planned to stand by their side to help them get back on their feet, with an attitude to do “whatever it takes”.

A team of river police arrested drivers of MV Mayur-2 from city’s Sutrapur area early hours of today.

Initiatives taken by the government of Bangladesh over the last two decade priotitising girls and women have come in tremendous use for their support amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, said Saima Wazed Hossain, advisor to the director general of World Health Organization on Autism and Mental Health.

The United States and six Gulf countries impose sanctions on six targets, accusing them of being affiliated with Islamic State, the US Treasury Department says in a statement.

Fazle Kabir has been reappointed as the governor of Bangladesh Bank (BB) for two more years.

Around 85,405 employment visas of different labour-receiving countries are yet to be processed amid the coronavirus pandemic, Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies said today.