European leaders yesterday agreed a massive aid package for their pandemic-ravaged economies, as US President Donald Trump finally came out in favour of face masks as a tool against the coronavirus.

A suspected rapist of a schoolgirl was killed in a “gunfight’ between Rab and a “drug-peddling gang” in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila early yesterday.

South Africa’s growing Covid-19 epidemic should be an alert to the rest of the continent to strengthen disease surveillance, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

Dhaka has planned to deploy additional troops in Indo-Bangla bordering areas to decrease border killings and alleged cattle smuggling.

Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Secretary of the law ministry Naren Das died from Covid-19 yesterday evening. He was 56.

With people mostly staying home to avoid coronavirus infection, land grabbers are using this opportunity to take over unguarded and empty plots of land in the capital’s Khilgaon.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been keeping indifferent health over the last few days. Even so, he continued with his usual busy programme despite his physician’s request, according to a health bulletin issued in Dhaka today by the personal physician to the prime minister.

Thailand’s premier said yesterday he was “worried” about a burgeoning student movement calling for the dissolution of his government, as pro-democracy protesters plot rallies and other creative displays of dissent across the kingdom.

The accused are Faisal Al Islam, 34, the managing director, Abul Hasnat, 52, the hospital’s assistant director, and it’s inventory officer Shahriz Kabir, 33.

A group of Rohingyas who survived a perilous sea voyage to Malaysia are set to be caned for entering the country illegally, activists said yesterday, decrying the “barbaric” sentence.

Turkey will maintain its military presence in northern Syria “until the people are free,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, blasting the “so-called” parliamentary vote in the war-torn country.

President Donald Trump on Monday said he would send law enforcement to more U.S. cities, as a federal crackdown on anti-racism protests in Oregon with unmarked cars and unidentified forces angered people across the country.

Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, has pleaded “not guilty” to second-degree murder, reports CNN.

A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died while dismantling an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard in 2018 can file a negligence claim against a British company involved in the vessel’s sale, London’s High Court ruled last week.

At least 14 prisoners have died from likely Covid-19 complications in scantly-monitored outbreaks of the disease at Egyptian detention centres, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

Fifty more people have died from Covid-19 and 2,928 people tested positive for the infection yesterday.

Governments around the world struggle to stem the spread of Covid-19 amid soaring infection rates and death tolls as people in Hong Kong, France and Melbourne have been ordered to wear masks when outside their homes.

Rickshaw puller Sagar Ali, 27, had asked Osman Gani for Tk 200 as loan, but Gani did not give him the money and rebuked him for not repaying the previous one.

The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed “Hope”, blasted off from Japan yesterday on a mission to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet.

A prime accused in a police official murder case and two suspected drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with Rab and police in Brahmanbaria, Dhaka, and Cox’s Bazar districts early yesterday.