Members of Kotwali police under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) starts home delivery of medicines to ensure city dwellers get their medicines at fair prices and do not have to get out of the house.

A mobile court last night jailed a fake doctor of a private hospital in Dhaka’s Shyamoli area and fined its owner and manager Tk six lakh in total on charge of providing substandard service to patients.

Bangladesh Army will intensify patrol in the ‘red zone’ areas.

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

Flight operations on international routes, except to China, resumed today on a limited scale after over three months’ suspension -- to and from Bangladesh -- due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A virtual court in Dhaka has placed expelled Jubo League leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan on a three-day remand in a money laundering case through videoconferencing.

Thirteen judges and 26 staff members of lower courts across the country have tested positive for coronavirus till today.

A total of 305 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in United Arab Emirates, South Korea and India due to the coronavirus lockdown, returned home by three separate special flights today.

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

Abul Kalam Azad, former principal secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, has been appointed as special envoy of Climate Vulnerable Forum’s (CVF) presidency.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its order of injunction on the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority’s (Wasa) decision to hike the water price by 25 percent from April 1 this year.

A mobile court of Barishal district administration yesterday found a makeshift factory running inside a residence, and seized fake medicines, cosmetics and sanitiser worth Tk 10 crore at the city’s Sagardi Darga Bari.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday raided a photocopy shop in the capital’s Mugda area and recovered a huge number of fake Covid-19 certificates.

Bangladesh Police have so far arrested around 52 people in 26 cases filed across the country over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28, Police Headquarters (PHQ) said in a statement yesterday.

The US has announced $173 million in new funding to support Bangladesh’s Covid-19 response efforts and the development and economic recovery plan in the aftermath of the pandemic.

With the significant decline in money sent home by migrants due to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) yesterday called for governments across the world to declare remittance service providers essential businesses in times of crisis.

An owner of around 60 warehouses in Chattogram has been missing since Thursday, worrying importers and traders as they said goods worth Tk 200 crore remained stocked there.

In just three years of its launch, Dipanpur -- a book store in Dhaka’s New Elephant Road -- became a hub for literature aficionados.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 100 million loan to expand coverage of an ongoing rural road network improvement project in Bangladesh. This network will connect the rural population to agricultural development zones.

Amid the pandemic crisis, mismanagement of non-Covid-19 patients at Chattogram Medical College Hospital has reached a whole new level in the last