Without data, companies are deaf and blind, it is often taught in business schools.

The pandemic, it seems, was the big bang the digital Bangladesh charge needed to level up.

Although Dhaka has by far the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, two neighbourhoods at the heart of the city have managed to crush the Covid-19 curve.

The European Union’s medicines agency suggested yesterday that a vaccine for the coronavirus could be ready in year, even as the World Health Organization warned that the disease may never go away.

A Rohingya refugee has tested positive for the novel coronavirus at the Ukhiya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

One of the institutional casualties of the global Covid-19 pandemic is people’s right to information.

Fifty-three-year old Anisur Rahman has been suffering from fever for the last few days. He also had cough, muscle pain and breathing complications.

Like most countries, Bangladesh is going through an unprecedented crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of both health and economic outcomes, with increasing number of infected cases and deaths from Covid-19, and severe economic losses in terms of production, exports and remittances, resulting in considerable unemployment, loss of income and rising poverty.

The government is hopeful that it would be able to “experimentally start” using convalescent plasma therapy for treating coronavirus patients from next week.

A team of Bangladeshi scientists at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) led by Dr Senjuti Saha has successfully managed to complete the

The number of infections and fatalities due to novel coronavirus continues to surge with 1,041 new cases and 14 deaths reported yesterday.

A report in this daily about the name of the industries and commerce affairs secretary of Brahmanbaria Awami League being in the list of

The government has once again extended the ongoing shutdown of public and private offices till May 30 in an attempt to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced that the government would provide Tk 2,500 crore to two specialised banks to help the youths and expatriate Bangladeshis who became jobless amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh faces the challenge of massive job creation as several lakh migrant workers are likely to return in the coming months following a sharp decline in overseas jobs due to the coronavirus-induced global economic slowdown, experts said.

It is the peak time of earning profit from selling shitol pati (cool mat) but the weavers here cannot sell a single piece of shitol pati due to ongoing countrywide shutdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.

The French government cried foul yesterday after its homegrown pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said it would reserve first shipments of any COVID-19 vaccine for the United States, slamming the move as “unacceptable” in a crisis that has killed nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said yesterday.

Nervous residents of China's pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queue up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign.

US President Donald Trump further hardens his rhetoric towards China saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning darkly he may cut ties over the rival superpower's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.