A group of youths has launched an online platform --‘Oxygen for Life’ -- to help people amid an oxygen cylinder crisis in Chattogram during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The High Court has fixed June 22 for delivering its order on a writ petition filed challenging the decision of Dhaka Wasa to hike the price of water by 25 percent from April 1 this year.

Taking advantage of the current crisis, a section of unscrupulous port city pharmacies has created an artificial shortage of life-saving medicines for treating Covid-19. Despite repeated drives and warnings in the last few days, the medicine sellers are desperate to make a quick buck, holding the general people hostage.

Bidyanondo Foundation has started preparing a facility to turn it into a field hospital to treat increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients in Chattogram.

A police sub-inspector and his associate were caught red-handed with 11,600 pieces of yaba while selling the drugs to narcotics dealers in Mohamamdpur area of the capital yesterday.

A massive plantation drive is underway along the 50km stretch of scenic Cox’s Bazar marine drive road led by Cox’s Bazar Development Authority, in a bid to restore the nature of the tourist destination.

Fifty-three professors and teachers from universities across the country and beyond yesterday decried the arrest of Sirajum Munira, a teacher from Begum Rokeya University Rangpur.

Two more lawmakers yesterday tested positive for Covid-19.

A virtual court in Dhaka yesterday rejected both the remand and bail petitions of four accused, including cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

UN Migration Agency, IOM, has called for supporting migrants and remittance-dependent communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

A man was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Barishal highway in Nowpara bus stand area under Bhanga upazila in Faridpur yesterday.

Police yesterday detained and filed a case against a hospital staffer who was accused of sexually harassing a Covid-19 patient from Khulna city’s Hafiz Nagar area.

A Chinese national died after he had fallen from a six-storey resort building at Kuakata tourist centre in Patuakhali on Monday afternoon.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to Sohel Rana Biswas, suspended jailer of Chattogram Central Jail, in a money laundering case.

Multiple drives are underway in the port city against shops selling fake hand sanitisers. In many cases, the traders are making the product themselves and selling them, without approval of drug administration department.

Ganasamhati Andolon yesterday demanded the government’s approval of a coronavirus testing kit developed by the Gonoshasthaya Kendra and starting of mass testing immediately to reduce people’s sufferings.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh says that it would take two to three more days to enforce complete lockdown in red zone areas.

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) sacks 10 physicians because they refused to join a coronavirus isolation centre built by the city corporation at Agrabad Express Road to treat Covid-19 patients.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a youth -- cut up into three parts by unknown assailants.

Awami League MP and former chief whip of parliament Abdus Shahid tested positive for Covid-19 today.