Renowned educationist and writer Burhanuddin Khan Jahangir passed away at his Gulshan residence in the city yesterday. He was 84.

The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has suspended electronic and machine-readable passport (MRP) operations as of yesterday, as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Kitchen markets, pharmacies and hospitals will remain open during the March 26 to April 4 general holiday, Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam says.

Confidence Group and Bangladesh Independent Power Producers Association (BIPPA) jointly start distribution of 4000 personal protective equipment (PPE) to fight coronavirus epidemic.

The university authority enforces a lockdown in Buet's Dhakeshwari teachers' quarters as a coronavirus case was confirmed there.

The High Court directs police to immediately record a case from journalist Ariful Islam against former Kurigram Deputy Commissioner Sultana Pervin, three of her colleagues and concerned Ansar personnel, on charges of torturing and attempting to kill him.

The University Grants Commission has urged all universities to continue their academic activities online during closure of higher educational institutions due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The Ministry of Industries asks the Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association to halt the import of scrap ships till April 7.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that a 500-member committee had been formed to tackle the coronavirus situation in the country.

The medical officer, who treated a coronavirus patient at the capital’s Delta Medical College Hospital, has also tested positive for the virus.

Bangladesh has committed to contribute $1.5 million to the Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Covid-19 Emergency Fund, becoming the sixth country to join the regional initiative to fight the spread of the virus under a common strategy.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police have arrested three members of a fraud gang over the weekend, for misappropriating about Tk 50 lakh from over 100 bank accounts in Dhaka, Faridpur and Cox’s Bazar.

The Covid-19 outbreak hit Italy hard at a time when many Bangladeshi wage-earners and traders living in the country were hoping to increase their income during a busy tourist season.

Authorities at most prisons across the country -- that are housing double their capacity of inmates -- are struggling to follow the Department of Prisons’ directives to screen for coronavirus.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a 25-year-old youth from a pond in port city’s Bayezid area.

A Chattogram court yesterday granted a three-day remand for quizzing Dr Iftekhar Adnan, who was arrested by police on Saturday night for spreading rumors about novel coronavirus on social media through an audio clip.

Five returnees from abroad were fined Tk 32,000 in total for violating home quarantine order in three districts during the last two days. Meanwhile, three traders were fined Tk 55,000 for hiking prices of essential commodities taking advantage of coronavirus fear.

The iron-like object which fell on a village at Bhatiyari union of Sitakunda on Saturday afternoon, is part of a crane that was being used to drag fragments of a larger barge crane weighing 5,000 tonnes.

With expatriates -- most susceptible to coronavirus -- continuing to return to the country, the authorities concerned in Rajshahi are struggling to make residents aware of social distancing for precautionary measures against the deadly virus as they keep on gathering at various places in large numbers.

Qulkhwani of freedom fighter Wazed Ali Khan will be held after Zohr prayers today at his village home in Tangail’s Dhanbari upazila.