The novel coronavirus has begun spreading to villages in Rajshahi district due to unabated cross-district travels and ineffective lockdown measures, health officials and development workers said.

As many as 43 staffers and officials of parliament secretariat have been infected with Covid-19 so far while the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban goes into budget session on Wednesday.

BNP yesterday made a 13-point proposal on the budget for the upcoming fiscal, urging the government to focus on saving people’s lives and livelihood.

Twenty-seven noted citizens yesterday condemned incidents of police brutality that happened recently in the USA and Bangladesh.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice to the authorities concerned to take necessary steps in 72 hours for proper management of coronavirus-related medical waste.

Sudhangshu Kumar Saha, a deputy commissioner of taxes, passed away from Covid-19 recently. Tragically, his cremation could not be completed at his village home, nor did his wife and children bid him farewell.

Army patrols have been increased in Dhaka’s East Rajabazar as the area prepares to go under lockdown on an experimental basis at midnight.

The Department of Environment (DoE) fines two people Tk 50 lakh for illegally cutting and eventually destroying around 50,000 square feet of hills in Arefin Nagar and Foy’s Lake of Chattogram.

The government has asked authorities of the country’s mosques and other places of worship to disseminate messages containing information on coronavirus regularly through loudspeakers, with the aim of make people more aware of the deadly virus.

A tax official has died from Covid-19 infection at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice to the government authorities concerned to take necessary steps in 72 hours for the proper management of coronavirus-related medical wastage.

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

The price of onion has come down to Tk 30 per kilogramme in retail markets of Dhaka due to falling demand amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan had laundered at least Tk 8.5 crore in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, according to a primary investigation conducted by Criminal Investigation Department.

Three people have died in road accidents over the last 24 hours across two districts, report our correspondents.

Shahan Ara Begum, a freedom fighter, politician, cultural activist and a witness of the heinous August 15 killings, has passed away at the age of 72.

Rapid Action Battalion’s Director General (DG) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun warned that those involved in human trafficking and responsible behind the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya will not be spared and appropriate legal action will be taken against them.

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking it’s directives on collection of monthly tuition fees by private educational institutions, which get the monthly pay order (MPO) facilities during coronavirus pandemic.

Medicine traders are hiking price of pain and fever medicine and disinfectant items with the excuse of supply shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic in Chattogram city.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) yesterday called for more allocation in the upcoming budget for women-friendly infrastructure.