As air travel remains suspended during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the airlines industry is taking steps to keep their customers satisfied. National airliner Biman Bangladesh Airlines and popular international airlines Qatar Airways have made special announcements pertaining to the pandemic over the last few days.

Brac is going to set up 100 walk-in kiosks across 19 risky regions of the country, to expedite the government’s initiative of scaling up testing capacity for the novel coronavirus.

No cacophony of metals clinking, no yelling of experts to apprentice mechanics, only skeletons of under-repair vehicles parked by the roadside testifies that there used to be automobile workshops on Motiheel’s Culvert Road. These days, an eerie silence pervades the area.

Distribution of stipends for some 1.37 crore primary level students resume today, with the beneficiaries set to get the money of October to November 2019 quarter.

An entomological survey team supporting Sylhet City Corporation’s (SCC) anti-mosquito drive found Aedes larvae at five locations of two wards in the city, as the drive resumed after being disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

A US-based charity organisation run by Bangladeshi expatriates has extended support to underprivileged families hit by the Covid-19 shutdown.

Unilever Bangladesh, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) and 2030 Water Resources Group are collaborating to prevent spread of Covid-19 at deputy commissioners’ (DC) offices that are still operating amid the pandemic.

The High Court yesterday again denied bail to suspended deputy inspector general of prisons Bazlur Rashid in a case over amassing Tk 3.08 crore beyond the known source of his income.

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) is to set up eight booths to collect samples of suspected Covid-19 patients.

Robi declares 33GB free data for the next six months to their 27,000 customers who are doctors and registered with the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Five accused of a gang rape case were arrested during overnight drives in different areas of Thakurgaon’s Ranisankail upazila.

The High Court has refused to grant bail to Abul Asad, editor of Bangla daily Sangram, in a case filed under Digital Security Act on charges of “circulating provocative report and sedition”.

A team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) successfully completes the genome sequencing of the SARS Cov-2 virus in Bangladesh.

A total of 451 Bangladeshi nationals from India, Pakistan and Kuwait return home on separate special flights.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned of the government to immediately take necessary steps to prevent the killing of dolphins in Halda river in Chattogram.

A total of 34 accused in 18 different cases got bail from five virtual courts in Dhaka yesterday, on the first day of online hearing.

Police yesterday shut down the Bangabazar market and two fashion outlets in the capital for flouting health safety directives to prevent transmission of coronavirus.

Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam takes charge of office today while his counterpart for south city corporation Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh will assume office on May 16.

A prisoner of Sylhet Central Jail died at the isolation centre of Sylhet Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital on Sunday.

A total of 332 Indian and Pakistani citizens stranded in Bangladesh left Dhaka for their respective countries by two separate special flights of Air India and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) yesterday.