US-Bangla Airlines will repatriate 45 Indian sailors stranded in Bangladesh due to suspension of passenger flights by a special charter flight today.

At least seven members of a family, including two children, suffered burn injures in a fire caused by a gas cylinder blast in Ashulia of Savar early yesterday.

With cases of coronavirus infection increasing among staffers, officials at Chattogram Customs House have started a token system to limit the number of visitors on the premises from Sunday.

Rana Shikder, who flew from Singapore to Bangladesh with the help of doctors of Singapore, died yesterday at his home. Thirty-two-year old Rana was waiting for death as he was suffering from stomach cancer.

The joint commissioner who allegedly offered bribe to the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner was transferred yesterday.

The novel coronavirus has begun spreading to villages in Rajshahi district due to unabated cross-district travels and ineffective lockdown measures, health officials and development workers said.

Army patrols have been increased in Dhaka’s East Rajabazar as the area prepares to go under lockdown on an experimental basis at midnight.

The Department of Environment (DoE) fines two people Tk 50 lakh for illegally cutting and eventually destroying around 50,000 square feet of hills in Arefin Nagar and Foy’s Lake of Chattogram.

The government has asked authorities of the country’s mosques and other places of worship to disseminate messages containing information on coronavirus regularly through loudspeakers, with the aim of make people more aware of the deadly virus.

A tax official has died from Covid-19 infection at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice to the government authorities concerned to take necessary steps in 72 hours for the proper management of coronavirus-related medical wastage.

At least seven members, including two children, of a family suffered burn injures in a fire, supposedly caused by a gas cylinder blast in Ashulia of Savar, early today.

The price of onion has come down to Tk 30 per kilogramme in retail markets of Dhaka due to falling demand amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Allocating adequate budget to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in the upcoming national budget should be a key priority to prevent and control Covid-19, said experts yesterday.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das is likely to be shifted, a year and a half after appointment. She is likely to be given either new responsibilities in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs headquarters in South Block or given another diplomatic assignment outside India, sources said.

Magistrates across the country can now virtually hold hearings on remand prayers of accused without physical presence in courts.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan had laundered at least Tk 8.5 crore in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, according to a primary investigation conducted by Criminal Investigation Department.

Three people have died in road accidents over the last 24 hours across two districts, report our correspondents.

Shahan Ara Begum, a freedom fighter, politician, cultural activist and a witness of the heinous August 15 killings, has passed away at the age of 72.

Rapid Action Battalion’s Director General (DG) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun warned that those involved in human trafficking and responsible behind the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya will not be spared and appropriate legal action will be taken against them.