Cities and states on several continents re-imposed restrictions as new coronavirus infections spread like wildfire.

Police found a man’s handcuffed body in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila early yesterday.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today issues an order that the dependants of the civilians and member of the armed forces now detained in Pakistan should be paid subsistence allowance by the government.

To reduce public sufferings and ensure transparency, the government is going to get the land-related services of the whole country, except the three hill districts, automated.

Alamin Hossain alias Diamond used to call himself a dance teacher and had been running a so-called dance academy in the capital’s Mirpur for the last eight years.

Awami League candidates Shahdhara Mannan and Shahin Chakladar have respectively won the by-polls to Bogura-1 and Jashore-6 constituencies amid low voter turnout due to flood and the coronavirus outbreak.

Many embankments, roads and homesteads have been damaged in many districts of the country due to flood, causing immense sufferings to people.

Six people died after showing Covid-19 symptoms in Cumilla and Faridpur in 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.

As over 4,910 patients recovered yesterday, the number of Covid-19 recoveries in the country crossed the one-lakh-mark, taking the total to 103,227.

A Malaysian court yesterday heard contempt case brought by the government against independent news portal Malaysiakini and its editor-in-chief over readers’ comments posted on its website, in a case widely seen as a test for press freedoms.

The government has decided not to extend the three-day Eid holiday and also not to allow the government employees to leave their workplaces amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.

Thirty-nine more people died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours until yesterday, the death toll rose to 2,391.

The interior ministers of France and Britain on Sunday signed an agreement creating a new joint police intelligence unit to combat migrant traffickers and reduce the “unsustainable” numbers crossing the Channel illegally.

At least 11 people died after showing Covid-19 symptoms in Cumilla and Satkhira in the last two days.

The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours as South Africa re-imposed a nationwide curfew and Sri Lanka ordered schools to shut again following a surge in new cases.

The coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned yesterday.

Two parliamentary constituencies -- Bogura-1 and Jashore-6 -- go to by-elections today amid coronavirus scare as locals say the campaigns of only ruling Awami League candidates were visible.

A Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police Detective Branch died of Covid-19 while being treated at Rajarbagh Central Police Hospital in the capital early yesterday.

The deposed Pakistani president Gen Yahya Khan has blamed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and several army generals including Gen Tikka Khan for the genocide and massacre in Bangladesh and the defeat of the Pakistani military adventure against India.

The overall flood situation has taken a serious turn in many districts of the country’s north and north-eastern regions, causing immense sufferings to people.