Dhaka Union of Journalists yesterday expressed deep concern over summoning of at least 10 journalists by the police after the publication of a report on the immoral activity of a senior cop.

Bangladesh today gets membership of the International Labour Organisation. The decision was taken unanimously by the ILO member countries. The membership will be activated next week.

While the Covid-19 outbreak has impacted the lives of everyone, women and girls from lower-income families are having to face deeper struggles, especially when it comes to the issue of maintaining menstrual health and hygiene.

Thirteen judges and 26 staff of lower courts across the country have so far been infected with Covid-19.

Multiple telecoms masts were destroyed Monday by Bolivian villagers who feared that 5G technology could transmit coronavirus, media reports said.

A five-member Egyptian delegation today calls on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at his official residence. They hand over a letter from Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Bangladesh prime minister.

Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among Covid-19 patients in what scientists hailed as a “major breakthrough”.

A Sri Lankan journalist working for The New York Times has said police raided her home and seized her laptop over the alleged kidnapping of a Swiss embassy staffer last year.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a two-month pregnant woman from a hut inside a brick kiln at Khajura in Jashore Sadar upazila.

A union parishad member died of bullet wounds at Chattogram Medical College Hospital late on Monday night, hours after unidentified criminals shot him at his Bandarban home.

China’s capital was facing an “extremely severe” coronavirus threat yesterday, as New Zealand reported its first new infections in almost a month and fears mounted that the deadly pandemic is still far from under control.

At least 13 people died with Covid-19 symptoms in six districts since Monday.

Many people were seen waiting in a long queue at a Qatar Airways ticket counter in the city’s Tejgaon area yesterday, the first day of resumption of international flight operations to and from Dhaka after nearly three months.

Schoolchildren in char areas do not even have the chance of accessing the government’s remote education programme because their families don’t own televisions or have electricity.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury tested negative for Covid-19 in an RT-PCR test yesterday.

Flight operations on the international routes, except China, will resume today on a limited scale after over three months’ suspension of flights to and from Bangladesh due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bangladesh has made great strides in power generation in the last decade as about 95 percent of its population now have the access to electricity, thanks to the government’s attention to renewable energy sources along with the conventional sources, says a global report.

In an unprecedented incident, Bangladesh Copyright Office granted the copyright of 260 “Masud Rana” books to its ghostwriter Sheikh Abdul Hakim on Sunday.

The government yesterday extended all educational institutions closure until August 6 as a preventive measure against the further spread of the novel coronavirus.

Here is some good news for healthcare professionals on the frontline against Covid-19.