Educational institutions can keep their offices open for administrative work such as enrollment of students, maintenance of laboratories, libraries and cleaning up the campus, the education ministry said today.

This year’s budget session will take place with the presence of only those lawmakers who are essential for the day-to-day activities of the parliament in a bid to maintain social distancing and curb the risk of coronavirus infection.

Kuwait’s interior ministry has started opening files of three major companies to investigate suspicions of human trafficking of some 4,000 foreign workers, mostly Bangladeshis.

Kamal Uddin had trafficked over 400 people to Libya in the last 10 years. Some of the Bangladeshis killed and injured in Libya on Thursday were among them. The man even forced some of the victims’ families to pay ransom recently when they were tortured in Libya, days before being killed.

Rights bodies across Asia and Middle East fear migrants will face debt bondage and their families will slip into poverty if millions are repatriated without compensation during the coronavirus pandemic.

The government is planning to divide the entire country into three zones -- red, yellow and green – depending on the severity of the spread of the coronavirus infection, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Ninety-one new cases, including those of five Rohingya refugees, have tested positive for Covid-19 at the IEDCR field office in Cox’s Bazar Government Medical College.

Three people, including a man and his son, are killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Panchagarh.

Detained photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol’s attempt to file a bail petition remains stuck as he could not be produced before a Dhaka Court today from Jashore Jail due to the ongoing court shutdown amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Department of Environment (Chattogram) fines two people Tk 28 lakh for illegally cutting through a portion of a hill, locally known as Greenledge Bank hill, in Askar Dighirpar area in Chattogram.

US-Bangla Airlines today offered Tk 1,999 airfare on Dhaka-Chattogram route.

A youth has been arrested in connection with the death of Jubo League activist Tapas Das, who was killed in a clash between two factions of Awami League in Baufal upazila of Patuakhali on May 24.

Libya has condemned the killings of 26 Bangladeshis by Libyan human traffickers in Mizdah and said it would bring the killers to book.

A suspected drug peddler has been killed in what was claimed to be a gunfight with members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Naikhyangchhari upazila of Bandarban.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says the government will take harsh steps if health guidelines are not followed and social distancing is not maintained in public transport during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

A 29-year-old police constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) died with Covid-19 like symptoms at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) this morning.

The number of police personnel infected with Covid-19 has crossed 5,000 this noon, according to a tally of Police Headquarters.

A 19-year-old pregnant woman died with Covid-19 symptoms one hour after her admission at Bogura’s Mohammad Ali Hospital last night.

Local airlines saw very few passengers on the first day of resumption of regular passenger flight operation on three domestic routes this morning after more than two months of flight suspension, sources at different airlines said.

Rab claims to have arrested a human trafficker who trafficked some of the 26 Bangladeshi nationals killed in Libya on May 28.