Professor Dr AKM Nurul Anwar, former Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and a renowned physician, dies of Covid-19.

Fifty-five people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, said during a briefing.

If you ask anyone here, what do you do, he’d say I’m doing a job here, but I want them to say instead that they are running their own business here, this is what Mr Latifur Rahman, our LRN used to tell us. He believed in igniting aspiration among others; he used to take pride in the achievements of his people. I’ll never forget how proudly he introduced me to his fellow MCCI members as the first female professional reaching the height of being a General Manager in marketing arena of pharma industry, when I was promoted as the General Manager, Marketing of Eskayef in 2007.

Md Abul Kasem Azad, deputy director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of Bogura, died of Covid-19 in Mymensingh this morning.

A doa mahfil will be held at 5:30pm today in remembrance of Latifur Rahman, founder chairman and CEO of Transcom Group.

Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party has “closed” two members of the force who allegedly assaulted a photojournalist of a Bangla daily newspaper alongside a private university student on the premises of Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka.

Yesterday marked the 33rd death anniversary of Abdul Hakim Bikrampuri, former member of the undivided Bengal Legislative Assembly and Pakistan

A total of 49,750 people including 608 children, accused of criminal charges, have secured bail from the lower courts across the country in the last 35 working days.

Speakers at an online dialogue yesterday stressed the need for rigorous involvement of local communities in fighting coronavirus spread across the country.

At least 153 people were killed and 84 other injured in 106 waterways’ accidents in the last six months, two non-government organisations said.

Six people have died with Covid-19 symptoms over the last twenty four hours in Cumilla.

The authorities of Chittagong University (CU) have put the campus under 14-day lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Speakers at an online press conference yesterday urged authorities to arrange animal sacrifice during upcoming Eid-ul-Azha in the country under a system followed in Saudi Arabia, to avoid environmental and health hazards.

Every day, Rubel Hossain, a staffer at Bangladesh Water Development Board, would get ready and keep on waiting for a bus to reach his Motijheel office from his Keraniganj residence. But the pandemic has changed his lifestyle, maybe for the better, as he started commuting on his bicycle for the last few weeks.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday found Aedes larvae in 91 houses and establishments during the first day of the 10-day “combing operation” to destroy breeding grounds of mosquitoes.

The pandemic is leaving an adverse impact on almost every sector, but when it comes to drug smuggling, Covid-19 has just been a reason to come up with newer, more innovative ideas and techniques.

Today is the 25th death anniversary of Justice Muhammad Ansar Ali.

BNP yesterday demanded immediate cancellation of coronavirus test fee set by the government.

Artist Professor Mostafizul Haque has been selected as the new chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology (SMUCT).

The three-day long virtual graduation ceremony of Scholastica, a leading English-medium school, ended on Friday.