The government has decided to promote all students from grade I to grade V without traditional year final examinations amid the coronavirus pandemic.

After seven months of shutdown, pilgrims have started to return to Mecca as Saudi Arabia eased coronavirus restrictions.

Although the government has shut all educational institutions across the country amid the coronavirus outbreak, a good number of English medium schools in Dhaka are reportedly forcing guardians to pay monthly tuition fees of their children.

Strongly opposing the government’s decision to hike bus fares, the BNP on Sunday said the move will add a new onslaught on the poor as well as those who lost their means of earnings amid the coronavirus shutdown.

Reaffirming her government’s stance to be there with people until the coronavirus crisis is over, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said this is not difficult at all to overcome any pressing problem if people remain united.

BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Thursday criticised the government for what he said not making adequate allocation for the health sector in the annual development programme (ADP) despite the coronavirus epidemic.

BNP on Friday alleged that the government is easing the shutdown only to protect the interests of big businesspeople  ignoring the threat to people’s lives amid the sharp spike in coronavirus cases in the country.

Overshadowed by the coronavirus outbreak, the Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated this year in a setting unlike anything the world has ever seen as worries and silence replace joy and festivities.

Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Bangladesh Manmohan Parkash has said a carefully-crafted exit strategy that draws a fine balance between normalising socioeconomic activities and containing the spread of virus is needed for Bangladesh.

Farmers in Khulna, who faced trouble over harvesting Boro crops due to labour crisis amid coronavirus shutdown, now have suffered yet another blow due to recent rains as that might damage the crop now lying in the field after it was cut down.