The Rohingya settlement in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar caught on fire for the second time in a week yesterday.

Canada’s parliament has gone virtual through the pandemic, assembling MPs across six time zones and giving a rare peek at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bookcase, a deer head and a stifled opposition.

Shoppers flocked to Thailand’s top-end malls yesterday, eager for retail therapy as shopping centres reopened in a gradual easing of restrictions to revive the virus-ravaged economy.

Former US President Barack Obama criticised the Trump administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging America as restrictions were eased in parts of Europe yesterday.

An alleged Rohingya drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practised in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Saturday.

Following Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s declaration to introduce people-oriented education in Bangladesh, the government has formed a 21-member education committee.

A virtual court in Dhaka yesterday rejected bail appeals of cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed as a seven-day remand prayer was pending against them in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

In New Zealand, no one is exempt from the strict coronavirus prevention measures -- not even Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who was denied entry to a cafe because of her own social distancing rules.

China’s ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead at his residence on the outskirts of Tel Aviv yesterday, police said.

The litchi farmers of Dinajpur and adjacent districts are worried about how to transport the sweet summer fruit to the rest of the country during this coronavirus pandemic-driven ongoing shutdown.

An ultra poor man allegedly died by suicide after killing his wife and one and a half years old daughter in Balapara area of Rangpur’s Gangachhara yesterday.

Renowned singer, composer and music director Ustad Azad Rahman passed away at a city hospital yesterday. He was 76.

Bangladesh got a little break from the doom and gloom of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday when Hitachi in Tokyo launched its made-in-Bangladesh IoT application-based airCloud Pro device, which manages large cooling and heating systems remotely.

Imagine entering a market in your locality that has essentials like rice, potatoes, vegetables, facemasks, and soaps maintaining social distance, and that too for free!

A government watchdog fired suddenly by Donald Trump was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said a Democratic lawmaker who accused the president of committing a potentially illegal act of retribution.

An alleged criminal was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Commerce Minister M R Siddiqui today informs journalists that more than 4,000 fair price shops will be established across the country in June.

The United States is heading toward more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths by June 1, with leading mortality forecasts still trending upward, CDC Director Robert Redfield tweeted on Friday.

An explosion in remote working owing to the coronavirus pandemic could see companies slash office space, saving them money but not necessarily improving productivity among staff, according to experts.