A suspected drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Five people, including an eight-year-old girl, have died after showing coronavirus-like symptoms in Khulna, Khagrachhari, Gopalganj, Noakhali and Bogura since Saturday night.

The government yesterday suspended chairmen and nine members of three Union Parishads on charge of their involvement with irregularities in distributing relief materials amid the coronavirus outbreak.

In major cities of Bangladesh, people generally do not know much about their next-door neighbours even though they may have been living side by side for years.

Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, the Council of Senior Scholars, urged Muslims worldwide to pray at home during Ramadan if their countries require social distancing to curb the spread of the coronavirus, state news agency SPA reported yesterday.

The non-government organisations want the government to engage them in tackling the crisis caused by Covid-19 which has far-reaching impacts on people, health and economy, especially on the poor and vulnerable communities across the country.

Bangladesh Cabinet today discusses the report presented to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by DP Dhar, chairman of the policy planning committee of the Indian external affairs ministry, on matters relating to the India-Pakistan emissary level talks.

Around eight people, including two children, died while three were injured in separate incidents of being struck by lightning in four districts yesterday.

To prepare ground for the summit conference between Indira Gandhi and ZA Bhutto, the emissary level meeting between India and Pakistan will begin in Rawalpindi on April 25, 1972.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic could possibly be the best opportunity for smokers to quit their habit.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police is set to go tougher on those who would roam around streets as the number of Covid-19 patients has been ratcheting up in the country.

A coronavirus lockdown policy that lets men and women leave the house on alternate days has exposed a gender divide in Bogota within days of being introduced, while Peru has dropped a similar scheme after finding it made women’s days busier.

North Korea sharply stepped up trade in coal and oil products last year in defiance of UN sanctions through the apparent help of China’s shipping industry, a UN panel said Friday.

Ireland has successfully “flattened the curve” of coronavirus transmission and no longer expects a peak in infections, chief medical officer Tony Holohan said.

Leaders of Dhaka Union of Journalists have expressed deep concern over 16 journalists, including nine in Dhaka, getting infected with coronavirus.

A 35-year-old man died, after showing coronavirus symptoms, at Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital yesterday.

The World Health Organization issued warned Friday that there was no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected.

The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia yesterday driven by a rise in cases in India as the tiny Indian Ocean island nation of Maldives locked down its capital.

The Chinese city at the origin of the coronavirus outbreak revised up its death toll by 50 percent yesterday, as global criticism mounted over China’s handling of the deadly pandemic.

A member Arakan Liberation Party, locally known as Mogh Party, was shot dead at remote Kenaiju Para in Rowangchhari upazila of Bandarban yesterday morning.