Ride-sharing service OBHAI has launched special travel arrangements “OBHAI Sheba” to commute healthcare workers and patients to hospitals or healthcare centres amidst the current Covid-19 crisis.

Around 2,000 Supreme Court lawyers have applied for loans from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) as the association decided to provide interest free loans to its members in need to tackle the financial pressure during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

A man suddenly falls sick and dies as he is purchasing medicine from a shop in Bhatara in Dhaka.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines extends the suspension of all international and domestic flights till May 15 amid the global Covid-19 pandemic.

A total of 51 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Japan due to the ban on passenger flights in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak, return to Dhaka on a special Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight.

Jinnat Ali, the tallest man in the country, died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday morning.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a senior doctor of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) from the bottom of an elevator shaft at Mamata Specialised Hospital in Barishal city.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is operating three special flights -- one from Dhaka and two from Japan -- to repatriate citizens of the two countries, following a ban on scheduled passenger flights due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Pointing to the international community’s continuous call upon Bangladesh to shelter Rohingya people who arrive floating on boats at Bay of Bengal, the country’s Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said other countries of the region are not being requested to share the burden.

Two siblings were killed and four injured after a bus and truck collided at Sherua Battola in Bogura’s Sherpur upazila yesterday morning.

National Professor Anisuzzaman was admitted to a city hospital yesterday.

A member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) tested Covid-19 positive in Chattogram’s Patenga on Monday.

Some 20 journalists were attacked, intimidated, harassed, or arrested for reporting on pilferage, corruption, and lack of accountability in food aid meant for the poor during the lockdown, noted Forum for Freedom of Expression, Bangladesh.

With pressures mounting on countries to ease their lockdown restrictions, International Labour Organization (ILO) has urged the government to take action to prevent and control the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace, with active involvement and dialogue with employers’ and workers’ organisations.

Many vendors, who are now jobless due to the ongoing countrywide shutdown, are engaging in the sale of PPE to make a living. Public health experts warn that the use of these PPE suits can be fatal for health and a source of Covid-19 infection.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says steps have been taken so that garment workers cannot enter Dhaka from outside as RMG factories will be operated on a limited scale with workers currently staying in Dhaka.

A physician of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) is found dead at a clinic’s basement in Barishal city.

Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) again announces to waive the store rent fully for import containers brought in by BGMEA and BKMEA members on condition that they take their cargoes by May 4.

The government has provided legal aid to 5,07,040 poor and helpless people of the country free of cost in the last 10 years, reported law ministry yesterday, on the eve of National Legal Aid Services Day.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate three special flights from Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai to bring back Bangladeshis stranded in India due to suspension of flights following the Covid-19 outbreak.