The High Court yesterday requested lawyers, who are connected with virtual court functions, to work towards increasing awareness among people about the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid a worsening healthcare crisis in the city, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and community leaders have teamed up to turn two community centres into isolation centres, in a bid to deal with the increasing number of Covid-19 patients.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday claimed to have arrested five members of a gang who robbed Tk 80 lakh from a vehicle in Gazipur recently.

Mosquito menace, waterlogging, inefficiency in garbage collection and some other burning issues remained unresolved due to a lack of coordination among the inter-connected departments of the Dhaka South City Corporation, said Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday.

Sultan Uddin Bhuiyan, former lawmaker of Narayan-ganj-1 constituency and son of late Gul Baksh Bhuiyan, passed away on Saturday morning.

Authorities have categorised 45 areas in Dhaka city as red zones over coronavirus infections. Of those, 17 areas are under Dhaka North City Corporation while 28 are under Dhaka South City Corporation.

A nurse from Ibn Sina Hospital died without admission at the same hospital’s emergency yesterday, after allegedly being refused on grounds of her not having a Covid-19 clearance certificate.

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Director Prof Uttam Kumar Barua has been infected with coronavirus.

Not too long ago, Dipanpur -- a book café launched in memory of Faisal Arefin Dipan, former publisher of Jagriti Prokashoni -- was a hub for literature aficionados. However, after around four years since its inception, Jolly and the partners have decided to quit this emotional space, as the rapid fall in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to come to the decision.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines special flight, carrying 157 Bangladeshi citizens stranded in the UK due to suspension of regular passenger flights, have landed at Dhaka Airport.

A virtual court in Dhaka will hold on June 16 the hearing on a petition submitted for showing expelled Jubo League leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan arrested without his presence before the court in a money laundering case through videoconferencing.

Thirty-two people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

A doctor of Jemison Red Crescent Maternity Hospital in Chattogram died from a Covid-19 infection early today morning.

A China Southern Airlines flight from Dhaka to Guangzhou will be suspended for four weeks from June 22 due to concerns about Covid-19 infections, China’s aviation regulator said today.

Defence secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, who is fighting against Covid-19 at the ICU of Combined Military Hospital (CMH), has been promoted to senior secretary.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah, who passed away last night, was infected with Covid-19.

The death of veteran politician and Awami League presidium member Mohammed Nasim cast a pall of gloom in the country’s political and socio-cultural arenas.

Almas Bepari, a canteen staff of Bangladesh Bank was living in the capital’s Chittagong road for the past decade, until the pandemic forced his family to shift to Cumilla earlier this month.

Researchers at Bangladesh Agricultural University’s (BAU) Germplasm Centre have developed three new varieties of mangoes this season.

Fifty-year-old man Abdus Salam had been suffering from chronic kidney disease and needed routine dialysis.