Police have arrested 708 people for defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines in Dhaka today.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will set up 10 cattle markets including a permanent one at Gabtoli during upcoming Eid-ul-Azha by maintaining health guidelines, said DNCC mayor Md Atiqul Islam.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has suggested UK to refrain from using any form of “insinuating and misleading” statements about Bangladesh government or the ruling party, Bangladesh Awami League.

Several new houses of Ashrayan-2 project in Santhia upazila of Pabna already require repair work. Out of 372 houses, over 100 are 1.5ft shorter than others.

The High Court today stayed for 30 days an order by Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) managing director for demoting its Executive Engineer Md Mozammel Haque for giving information to media in 2017 on irregularities of Wasa that resulted in waterlogging in Dhaka.

The district administration distributed food aid as humanitarian assistance from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina among 1,000 transport workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock has called upon farmers and customers to use online platform for selling and purchasing sacrificial animals ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

Cabinet Division has asked all government offices to conduct their official activities virtually.

Expressing deep concern over the ban on providing information of patient and health services in government hospitals to media during Covid-19, Transparency International (TIB) yesterday demanded immediate revocation of the order signed by Dhaka District Civil Surgeon on Thursday.

Police today foiled a human chain formed by Ganasamhati Andolon in Narayanganj city, demanding justice for the 51 victims, who died in the fire at a food factory building in Narayanganj's Rupganj.

Manikganj district administration today provided food assistance to 13 members of a circus party, who lost jobs due to the ongoing strict lockdown enforced to tackle the spread of Covid-19.

Mobile courts of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) today fined East West Property Development (Pvt) Ltd, a concern of Bashundhara Group, Tk two lakh as they found Aedes mosquito larvae at an under construction building in Gulshan-2 in Dhaka on the first day of an eight-day combing operation.

Police have arrested 791 people for defying Covid-19 restrictions and health guidelines in Dhaka today.

A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee will be held tomorrow (Sunday) to fix the date of Eid-ul-Azha.

Ferries on Shimulia-Banglabazar route are allowing private cars only if the passengers can give valid reasons behind their commute today, a day after BIWTC issued a circular ban -- saying transportation of all sorts of public and private vehicles is suspended as per a government decision.

With the coronavirus cases and deaths surging every day, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) decided to reduce the number of cattle markets to 10 instead of 13 for Eid-ul-Azha.

Three hundred and fifty low-income families received food assistance from the local administration in Bagerhat town’s Maria Palli area this morning.

Government officials, lawyers, engineers, owners of construction companies, private clinics and doctors mostly whitened their undisclosed wealth last fiscal year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday placed a five-point proposal, including on the green recovery of climate vulnerable countries with support from the developed nations, as the climate change has brought them to a threshold.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has extended his decision to run the court functions across the country in a limited scale through virtual system till July 14 in order to retrain the Covid-19 pandemic.