The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the number of coronavirus cases with no clear epidemiological link, although the total number of cases outside China remains relatively small, its director-general said on Saturday.

In an opinion published in Al Jazeera on February 7, Tun Khin, president of Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, expressed the view that the International Court of Justice’s order that Myanmar has to do all it can to prevent genocide offers the persecuted Rohingya minority people hope for the future.

Bangladesh Bank will launch a regular currency note of Tk 200 denomination alongside commemorative gold and silver coins worth Tk 100 on March 17.

Any unnecessary panic over coronavirus will intensify danger and create obstacles to preventing probable infection, says Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Another sex worker in Rajbari’s Daulatdia was buried following formal Islamic funeral customs today.

As The Daily Star honours students who achieved extraordinary marks in their O- level and A-level exams, at its award giving ceremony, one common dream seeped through the hall -- that the students would build the Bangladesh of tomorrow.

US President Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, a senior administration official says, a sensitive subject for the Indian government.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sharing a light moment with sister Sheikh Rehana and daughter Saima Wazed Hossain at the exhibition “Lighting the Fire of Freedom - Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman” on February 21.

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) today welcomed the government’s initiative to form a bank commission in a bid to reform the country’s banking sector.

Bangladesh Publisher and Book-sellers Association says they will keep their bookshops across the country close on February 24, protesting the government initiative of stopping the publication and circulation of “guide books”.

Samsung Electronics says that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning.

The fire that broke out at a cotton factory at Millgate area under Tongi Police Station in Gazipur today has been brought under control.

Here are the news headlines so far on February 22, 2020

A man is beaten to death, allegedly by his nephew, over land dispute in Sadar upazila of Patuakhali.

Members of Bangladesh Navy arrest 24 Sri Lankan fishermen and seize four trawlers for fishing illegally inside Bangladeshi maritime boundary in Chattogram.

A man suspected of shooting dead nine people across two shisha bars in a German town on Thursday had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views that envisioned complete extermination of people from a number of countries—including Bangladesh.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested Mazharul Islam alias Shakil, a close aide of top-listed criminal Zeesan Ahmed, from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area.

Two people are killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Golapganj and Bishwanath upazilas of Sylhet.

Lt Col Hasinur Rahman, a former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), returns home over 18 months after he went missing.

The United Arab Emirates says it registered two new coronavirus cases, including one Bangladeshi national, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the virus in the Gulf Arab state to 11.