It has been more than a month since the world has been under lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of deaths will soar if the predicted second and third waves and the “biblical” famine—as UN warns—come true.

The prisons authorities are releasing another 2,329 convicted prisoners from jails in third phase to ease the accommodation crisis and minimise the risk of novel coronavirus transmission in overcrowded prisons.

Last Christmas break, I took my daughter out to dinner when she flew in to see me in Vancouver.

Pregnancy is a stressful and overwhelming experience in itself. Add to that a global pandemic and the whole ordeal can become even more difficult and frightening.

Eight people died and 636 tested positive for Covid-19 across the country in the 24 hours until 2:30pm yesterday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Think of a child in lockdown! I can only imagine a caged bird, trying so hard to be freed. I can imagine, I can see, because I have three of them!

Countries must return to “basic principles” of public health surveillance if they are to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) top emergency health expert said on Friday.

A spectre is haunting the conscientious citizens of Bangladesh—the spectre of the Digital Security Act, 2018 (DSA).

Although the government had announced that shopping centres and malls would reopen today ahead of Eid, most owners in Dhaka and Chattogram cities have decided to keep the establishments closed as the number of Covid-19 cases keeps surging in the country.

Another police personnel infected with Covid-19 dies at the Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.

The central bank almost doubles the volume of funding of three refinance schemes for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in order to protect the marginal entrepreneurs from the ongoing economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Yet another official of the Anti-Corruption Commission, who had tested positive for coronavirus, has died during undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka.

Google and Facebook tell most employees to keep working from home for the rest of the year as part of a response by the tech giants to the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The United States issues a new rule tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists, saying it was in response to the treatment of US journalists in China, a shift that comes amid tensions between the two nations over the coronavirus global pandemic.

India today began transporting essential commodities by railways, weeks after bilateral trade was hampered due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Most of the shopping malls and markets in Chattogram city will remain closed till Eid-ul-Fitr, despite the government allowing markets to reopen from tomorrow.

The Covid-19 induced shutdown has forced pretty much everyone into the confines of their homes or shelters, except for wildlife. Even though, there aren’t so many people out there to celebrate the wild right now, the wild rages on in its full (or what remains) glory.

EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to salvage some of the summer tourism season, the bloc’s executive will say next week.

Eight people died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

An order by the police in West Bengal, asking its personnel to play a “Covid-19 awareness song” penned by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Rabindranath Tagore's 159th birth anniversary, has sparked a row in the state.