A Facebook page by the name of ‘Bangladesh Sangbadik Samity’ has been spreading a rumour that The Daily Star’s sports reporter Ramin Talukder has been infected with coronavirus and had been attending office till April 12.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is to go tougher with an aim to ensure social distancing in the capital.

Fortify Rights yesterday called on Malaysia not to push back the ships of Rohingyas adrift at sea, and to deploy urgently search and rescue missions for such boats and ensure their safe disembarkation.

Police arrested four people from Bangla Motor area in the capital on Thursday night on charges of storing coronavirus testing kits and other equipment used in combating the virus and selling those at hiked prices.

More than 4,300 undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers are waiting to be repatriated from Kuwait, after they applied under a special amnesty declared by the Gulf country to reduce migrant population amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Yesterday (April 17) marked the 20th death anniversary of Shabnam Huq, wife of Arham Masudul Huq, chief executive officer of Dhaka Bank Foundation, says a press release.

Last week I wrote about the book African Silences by Peter Matthiessen recounting a series of trips he made in Africa in search of birds and wildlife. Along with other animals, the book taught me about the White Rhino.

Sadek Ali, a boatman who plies his trade on the Buriganga, took loans from his relatives to send his only son to Brunei two months ago. This, he hoped, would bring his family better days, and finally allow him to retire from after a 20-year long career.

The religious affairs ministry has extended the deadline for registration of intended hajis till April 30, says a notice.

A total of 542 Canadian and Australian citizens, who were stranded in Bangladesh following outbreak of Covid-19, left Dhaka for their respective countries by separate chartered flights from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

About 2.8 million students of madrasas, technical and vocational institutions, and English version are deprived of television education although their peers in general stream are receiving lessons to recover losses during the shutdown.

Renowned art director and filmmaker Mohiuddin Faruque passes away at his residence in the capital’s Banani at the age of 78.

Law enforcers have arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman for allegedly beating up a farmer in Lalpur upazila of Natore as the farmer called a helpline number and sought relief.

Forty-eight Bangladeshis who remained stranded in Thailand for over a month, have returned back to Dhaka from Bangkok.

Workers of a garment factory stage demonstration on Dhaka-Sreepur road in Sreeur upazila of Gazipur demanding their due salaries for three months.

A youth has been shot dead and another sustained bullet injuries at hands of the gunman of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozzammel Haque at Kutubdia area under Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district.

Ramna Police arrests four people from the Bangla Motor area in Dhaka on charges of storing Covid-19 testing kits and other equipment used in combating the virus and selling those at hiked prices.

Even though social distancing is one of the best tools we have to avoid being exposed to coronavirus and slowing its spread locally and across the country, many in Chattogram are not following this important practice.

Sweety Dhar, in her mid-30s, is a cancer patient and has been in Australia for treatment since September last year.

It has been exactly two years since college student Rajib Hossain died after losing a hand that got stuck between two buses racing in the city, but his family has neither got justice nor any compensation yet.