A China Southern Airlines flight from Dhaka to Guangzhou will be suspended for four weeks from June 22 due to concerns about Covid-19 infections, China’s aviation regulator said today.

Defence secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, who is fighting against Covid-19 at the ICU of Combined Military Hospital (CMH), has been promoted to senior secretary.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah, who passed away last night, was infected with Covid-19.

India saw a record single-day increase of 11,929 coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections to 320,922.

Veteran Awami League leader and former health minister Mohammed Nasim has been laid to rest at Dhaka’s Banani graveyard, after receiving a guard of honour.

The police chief in the US city of Atlanta resigned after an officer fatally shot a black man during an arrest, the mayor said Saturday, with the new killing injecting fresh anger into protests against racism and police brutality.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah passed away tonight after going into cardiac arrest.

The chief physician of the intensive care unit (ICU) of BRB Hospital Ltd Dr Sazzad Hossain died in Dhaka tonight after being infected with coronavirus.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has recovered after being infected with coronavirus, Dr Bijon Kumar Sil said today.

“We have plenty of relatives and are surrounded by neighbours. Yet, when people heard uncle died with coronavirus, no one came to see him. No one even came for the burial. But Councillor Khorshed was there by our side, that too on a night riddled with gusty winds and heavy rain. It is impossible to find another person like him.”

Several thousand people denounce police violence in an anti-racism protest in central Paris as a wave of anger continued to sweep the world following the death of African American George Floyd.

A total of 751 Bangladeshi workers returned home from Dubai by two special flights today.

India today reacted sharply to a bill passed in Nepal’s parliament redrawing the Himalayan nation’s map which reportedly includes parts of the Indian territory.

A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, arranged by the Bangladesh government at the initiative of Bangladesh High Commission, London, departed Heathrow for Dhaka 10:30am local time, carrying 153 Bangladeshis.

A Dhaka court today placed a member of a gang -- linked to the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28 -- on a three-day remand.

Two Bangladeshi teenagers return home from India, where they had been jailed for two years for illegally entering the country.

As coronavirus cases and fatalities continue to rise in Bangladesh, the government has taken all necessary preparations to bring hotspots (red zone) under lockdown and will declare closure in those areas to prevent entry and exit.

Tributes and condolences continued to pour in for veteran politician and Awami League presidium member Mohammed Nasim, who breathed his last during undergoing treatment at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital this morning.

Saltwater crocodiles in Sundarbans face multiple threats—habitat degradation, poaching, development pressure, climate change and rising pollution, to name a few.

Four Supreme Court lawyers have filled a writ petition with the High Court, seeking its directives on the government to ensure that no public or private hospital refuses to provide treatment to any patient -- coronavirus infected or general -- across the country.