The Committee for the Protection of Fundamental Rights yesterday demanded immediate withdrawal of a case filed recently against bdnews24.com Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi, Jagonews24.com Acting Editor Mohiuddin Sarker and six others under the Digital Security Act.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain will hold a meeting with Supreme Court judges today to decide about the judiciary, as its functions have remained halted since March 26 due to ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock yesterday directed its district and upazila-level officials to take measures for selling produce of grassroots farmers and entrepreneurs.

The Maldives expressed deep gratitude to Bangladesh for supplying much-needed food and medical supplies to address the adverse impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Dhaka should actively engage Kuala Lumpur to make sure that the Bangladeshi migrants undergoing hardships in Malaysia amid coronavirus pandemic get food through a government distribution channel, said migrant rights activists in Malaysia.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed says they would not allow anyone to cook and sell iftar items on the streets and footpaths during the upcoming month of Ramadan, in order to avoid public gathering and spread of coronavirus.

A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrests a man in the capital in connection with spreading “defamatory” remarks about Md Moyeen Uddin, the first doctor in the country to die of Covid-19 on April 15.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain will hold a meeting with Supreme Court judges tomorrow to decide about the judiciary as its functions remain halted since March 26 due to ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Seventeen police personnel of a station have been infected with coronavirus in Gopalganj, district officials have confirmed.

Youth for Bangladesh (YFB), a voluntary organisation, recently started an initiative to sell “10 days of food for Tk 10”, which particularly targets middle and lower-middle class residents in Dhaka city and other districts.

Bangladesh Press Council has urged deputy commissioners (DC) to look out for journalists and media workers during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

A total of 264 UK and 154 Turkey citizens left Dhaka on special flights yesterday afternoon. They had opted to return home amid the Covid-19 outbreak, for which their governments arranged their return flights home.

Although the state-owned Bangladesh Television has started broadcasting in Middle East and North Africa recently on a pilot basis, private TV channels from Bangladedsh are still out of reach in the regions, limiting some 70 lakh Bangladeshi migrants from knowing about their homeland’s present situation amid coronavirus outbreak.

Teachers, officers and employees of Jashore University of Science and Technology (JUST) will donate the amount of their one day’s salaries to the Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Funn order to expedite the government’s steps taken to fight the coronavirus, according to a press release.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Enterprises & Co Ltd (UECL) have taken a joint initiative to provide food support to 5,000 poor women in Jamalpur, Kurigram and Gaibandha.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary meeting of its executive committee at the level of foreign ministers via video conferencing today as part of its efforts to address issues related to the novel coronavirus.

Another 164 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in Chennai, India for over a month following the outbreak of coronavirus, returned home yesterday by a special flight of US-Bangla Airlines.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday urged all concerned to continue relief distribution work properly, and said that no discrimination during the process will be tolerated.

Karwan Bazar, one of the biggest kitchen markets in Dhaka city, has been closed for retail sales as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB) urges the authorities concerned of the government to ensure relief or ration to those in remote areas and indigenous people during the coronavirus outbreak.