The government has asked the authorities of worship places across the country to spread awareness against Covid-19 through loud speakers.

A total of 424 medical professionals including doctors and nurses have been tested positive in Mymensingh division until June 9.

Dhaka North City Corporation yesterday found Aedes mosquito larvae at 153 houses and establishments on the fifth day of its ongoing 10-day combined operation to eliminate mosquitoes.

A section of guardians demanded 50 percent waiver of tuition fees of all non-government schools and colleges as they are in severe financial crisis after losing income source due to the ongoing coronavirus situation.

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), the implementing agency of metro rail projects, yesterday signed a contract with a consortium of agencies both foreign and Bangladesh for general consultancy services for Line-5 (Northern Route) of the Mass Rapid Transit Development project.

Dhaka University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) have failed to make any progress in the latest QS world University ranking of 2021.

Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in Sylhet, a subsidiary 100-bed hospital under Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, was dedicated for treating Covid-19 patients, days before the first patient was detected on April 5.

When reports of people being denied treatment at various hospitals started circulating on social media, a youth in Chattogram took it upon himself to help alleviate such sufferings. He promptly set up a five-bed primary healthcare facility for those in need of the service.

An elderly man died after suffering a seizure on the platform of Rajshahi Rail Station yesterday. With no ambulance available, transport to the hospital was impossible, which eventually led to the man’s death, railway police said quoting doctors.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in a drive arrested three alleged robbers in possession with firearms from Kumira area under Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram early yesterday.

Dr Md Enamul Haque has been appointed as national director of SOS Children’s Villages International in Bangladesh, says a press release. He started serving the organisation working for humanitarian and developmental assistance to children in need on June 5.

The first day of experimental lockdown in the city’s East Rajabazar area was enforced strictly, with no residents except those in emergency duty allowed to go outside today.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will conduct judicial functions till June 30 through virtual system, without physical presence, in order to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

As Covid-19 hit the nation hard, some 11,025 women faced different forms of domestic violence during the shutdown across the country in May, says a tele-survey report of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

A virtual court in Dhaka has rejected bail petitions of three accused in a case filed over trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis who were killed in Libya on May 28.

US-Bangla Airlines will repatriate 45 Indian sailors stranded in Bangladesh due to suspension of passenger flights by a special charter flight today.

At least seven members of a family, including two children, suffered burn injures in a fire caused by a gas cylinder blast in Ashulia of Savar early yesterday.

With cases of coronavirus infection increasing among staffers, officials at Chattogram Customs House have started a token system to limit the number of visitors on the premises from Sunday.

Rana Shikder, who flew from Singapore to Bangladesh with the help of doctors of Singapore, died yesterday at his home. Thirty-two-year old Rana was waiting for death as he was suffering from stomach cancer.

The joint commissioner who allegedly offered bribe to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner was transferred yesterday.