Authorities have categorised 11 areas under Chattogram City Corporation as red zones for Covid-19 infection.

A nurse from Ibn Sina Hospital died without admission at the same hospital’s emergency yesterday, after allegedly being refused on grounds of her not having a Covid-19 clearance certificate.

Locals found an almost decomposed elephant covered by a mound of earth in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila today.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah was laid to rest at his family graveyard in Gopalganj this afternoon.

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Director Prof Uttam Kumar Barua has been infected with coronavirus.

Three separate virtual courts in Dhaka refuse to hold hearings on bail petitions of detained photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol because he has not yet been shown arrested in the three cases filed under the Digital Security Act.

The whole world is currently in a war against the novel coronavirus, a potential threat to a stable and growing economy. The havoc wreaked by the virus has pushed people to go into quarantine and contact by and large with the outside world is at standstill.

The government is going extend the closure of all educational institutions in the country in a bid to curb further spread of Covid-19. The decision in this regard is to be taken tomorrow.

The number of people killed in a tanker truck explosion on a highway in eastern China has climbed to 19, with more than 170 injured, local authorities said Sunday.

A Dhaka court today placed two members of a gang -- linked to the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28 -- on a seven-day fresh remand each, in a case filed with Paltan Police Station.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the parliament that the government would put the worst affected areas under lockdown to contain further spread of Covid-19.

Not too long ago, Dipanpur -- a book café launched in memory of Faisal Arefin Dipan, former publisher of Jagriti Prokashoni -- was a hub for literature aficionados. However, after around four years since its inception, Jolly and the partners have decided to quit this emotional space, as the rapid fall in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to come to the decision.

Nine areas under Bogura municipality have been declared “red zone” to stop the rapid rise of Covid-19 infection.

The High Court today granted ad-interim bail to Sushanta Dasgupta, editor and publisher of local newspaper Dainik Amar Habiganj, in a case filed under Digital Security Act.

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has been found dead in his house in Mumbai’s Bandra, his representative and Mumbai Police said today, according to media reports.

A Biman Bangladesh Airlines special flight, carrying 157 Bangladeshi citizens stranded in the UK due to suspension of regular passenger flights, have landed at Dhaka Airport.

A virtual court in Dhaka will hold on June 16 the hearing on a petition submitted for showing expelled Jubo League leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan arrested without his presence before the court in a money laundering case through videoconferencing.

Thirty-two people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

A doctor of Jemison Red Crescent Maternity Hospital in Chattogram died from a Covid-19 infection early today morning.

The High Court will deliver its order tomorrow on a writ petition filed seeking its directives on the government to ensure that no government or private hospital refuses treatment to any patient -- infected with Covid-19 or not -- across the country.