Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday said the police is gradually being transformed into a people-friendly force. “The leading role of the police in tackling the corona situation and militancy reminds us of Bangabandhu's Janata's Police (People's Police). Gradually, the police is truly becoming the Janatar’s Police of Bangabandhu and Prime Minister’s Janabandhab Police (People-friendly Police,” he said. Read:Bangladesh police opened a new chapter during pandemic: Home Minister The Home Minister was addressing the inaugural foundation training course for 3,000 newly-recruited police constables at Bangladesh Police Academy, Sardah in the district. “Our police will be a world-class force. We’ve shown it not only in words but also in works,” he said, adding that 3,000 trainee constables have been recruited through a transparent and modern process. He said the nature of crime is changing in the developed world and the police of Bangladesh is also moving forward accordingly to deal with the new offences. Read:Drugs sale has gone online, says home minister Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam, Public Security Division’s Senior Secretary Mostafa Kamal Uddin and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Benazir Ahmed also spoke at the function presided over by Principal of the Bangladesh Police Academy Khandker Golam Faruq.

These are very trying times for the media as public interest in usual issues are very low. Politics is gone and most are relieved because they say the same thing. Some politicians are still popular but that’s because they are amusing and make the audience smile loudly. People hardly care who has to say anything about anything. While activist-journalists care about who rules Bangladesh and “dhandabaz”  ones with whom to line up, for most media workers politics is a source of news. Now that politics is shut, news is shut too. How long can one report what the Opposition leader says about the ruling party’s failure to handle the Corona situation and the response of the ruling party that the Opposition doesn’t know what it's talking about? Read:Is it tackling dengue or tackling Porimoni? Economy never made much news because people are more busy making money or trying to survive than reading about it. As it is, most news is not positive with a corona hit economy so most stay away from reading them. Sometimes there is news but they are largely about people who have committed economic crimes but are now free for one reason or another or economic criminals but there are so many that the public no longer cares. However, a story with pics which show  a criminal leading a fancy life abroad sitting on a sofa in his plush home is a better read than hearing about a group of hyper rich who just got off  police charges as “ its ok now bro.” It happens so often that it’s no longer a crime, hence not news. Sports and Sex? Sports news is fun but not opinions. We are nowhere in any sports except cricket, - one of the top 11 in a sport which 15 play- so we want to see and hear about it. The problem is we are only in one sport but the most popular sport is soccer which we play so badly, we don’t want to hear or know about it. So it’s basically international sports and we don’t care about local politics or sports barring cricket. Which basically leaves "entertainment media", always full of juicy stuff. And the crowd loves it. As of now we know practically everything about Porimoni and her crowd including gifts of qurbani cows though not enough about their patrons. A newspaper did publish a list of sorts and that led to screaming and jeering and a well-known banker-author was named who has denied any involvement. It was bad media or media desperate for anything about sex and scandals? Read:Can the media survive without Porimoni… ? So was the Porimoni affair created by the authorities in partnership with the media to save the media industry now in trouble? But Porimoni as a source of news also has limits. So in view of the crisis, may we have Hurmoni please to keep us going when Porimoni ends?

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday again made it clear that without improvement of the COVID-19 situation the government will not allow to reopen the educational institutions for the sake students’ and teachers' safety.

BNP on Thursday alleged that the sudden warnings by the Prime Minister and other ministers about the second wave of coronavirus look mysterious when the official statistics suggest a decline in both the infection and fatality of the virus.

The residents of Old Dhaka have locked down alleys and not allowing outsiders to enter buildings to curb the spread coronavirus.