The ordinance on allowing virtual court functions will be issued by the next week, Law Minister Anisul Huq said today. The function of the court will be for hearing and disposing of cases digitally through audio and video conferences, in line with the proposed ordinance.

At least 144 more police personnel were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24-hours across the country, according to a tally of the Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

Three people including two children and a pregnant woman were killed and six others were injured when a septic tank exploded in Narayanganj’s Bandar upazila this morning.

An alleged drug dealer is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at a field in Shorkhola village under Avoynagar upazila of Jashore district.

About 280 Rohingyas, who had been adrift in the Bay of Bengal for weeks, were rescued by the Bangladesh Navy and taken to Bhashan Char in Noakhali today.

Chattogram Port workers stage a demonstration demanding proper safety measures required to maintain physical distance following the death of a fellow worker who was diagnosed with Covid-19.

Cultivated fishes including carp and shrimp in a number of enclosures in Bagerhat are dying due to scarcity of water amid the hot weather prevailing for the last couple of weeks.

On April 18, a swarm of insects were seen in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila which raised concerns over locust attack amid the outbreak of coronavirus.

Police detain the chairman and the secretary of a union parishad (UP) for allegedly misappropriating 35 sacks of rice meant for the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in Shariatpur’s Vedorganj upazila.

Some 96 garment workers and a staffer have been found Covid-19 positive in the last 28 days in the country since April 9, according to a report of Bangladesh Garment Shramik Sanghati (BGSS).

Two police constables were injured in an attack by a group of people who were trying to free an arrestee from the custody of the lawmen in Narail Sadar upazila last night.

Movement restrictions will now be from 8:00pm till 6:00am, at which time no one is allowed to go out of their homes.

Sampadak Parishad (Editors' Council) has expressed grave concern over the recent suing of a cartoonist, a writer and journalists and the subsequent arrests of several of them under the Digital Security Act (DSA) on unsubstantiated grounds.

The ministry of public administration issues a circular asking all to refrain from making and sharing negative remarks, audio and video content against important persons within the government on social media amid the evolving coronavirus situation.

The US has provided over $22 million to complement Bangladesh’s ongoing efforts in preparing and responding to the spread of novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19).

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will place the national budget before the parliament on June 11, for the 2020-21 fiscal year, says a press note of the ministry.

Justice is yet to be delivered in the Ahsanullah Master murder case 16 years after the crime as the appeals are still pending with the Supreme Court.

Police arrest four people, including two journalists, in a case under Digital Security Act filed against seven people in Barguna for allegedly filming a mother and her daughter secretly and circulating it on YouTube.

Three more union parishad public representatives are suspended due to their alleged involvement in irregularities in distribution of rice allocated for the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock.

A laboratory for testing samples of suspected coronavirus patients was inaugurated at Noakhali Science and Technology University today.