Myanmar police say the army has filed a lawsuit against Reuters news agency and a local lawmaker for criminal defamation, weeks after the military objected to a news story published about the death of two Rohingya Muslim women as a result of shelling in Rakhine state.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines decides to reduce the number of flights on 10 different international routes by more than fifty percent due to low number of passengers, as well as flight bans in some destinations following the global coronavirus outbreak.

A British national of Bangladeshi origin succumbs to coronavirus infection yesterday at a hospital in UK’s Manchester, the third death from the disease in the country.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 9, 2020

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) increases the hotline numbers to report any suspected cases of coronavirus to 12 from four, after three cases were confirmed in Bangladesh on Sunday.

Department of Environment (DoE) fines Chittagong University (CU) Tk 9.05 lakh for cutting hills without obtaining clearance from DoE.

A Rohingya man, allegedly a yaba trader, has been killed in what law enforcers claimed to be a gunfight in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Bangladeshi expatriates who will not be able to return to Qatar on time after the end of their leaves have been asked to keep in contact with their respective employers.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says that the law ministry will take necessary steps to consider BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal to release her from jail.

Five years after the murder of a child in Narsingdi, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has disclosed that the father had assisted the criminals to kill his daughter in exchange for money.

Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, orders authorities to remove large displays of the names, pictures and addresses of dozens of anti-government protesters, amid fears that they encourage attacks by vigilante mobs.

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived an assassination attempt targeting his convoy as he headed to work in the capital Khartoum, officials say.

“Harun murdered my child. If there were a punishment higher than death sentence, that too would not be enough for his crimes.”

“Harun murdered my child. If there were a punishment higher than death sentence, that too would not be enough for his crimes.”

Women seem to be less likely to die from coronavirus in comparison to men, and children seem to be less likely to die than other age groups, according to data published on coronavirus deaths and reports published on various news media.

A judicial probe committee finds part negligence of Dhaka north and south city corporations over the outbreak of dengue in the capital last year.

Four people die and three others get injured as a tree falls on the rickshaw-van in Dhamrai, on the outskirts of the capital.

A day after the first cases of coronavirus were detected in Bangladesh, Health Secretary Md Ashadul Islam has said the situation is not bad enough to close schools and colleges of the country.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 9, 2020

Italy orders a virtual lockdown across much of its wealthy north, including the financial capital Milan, in a drastic new attempt to try to contain a outbreak of coronavirus that saw the number of deaths leap again sharply.