Rohingya activists have urged the host countries to stop hatred against them and treat them as human beings, saying the refugees, who have fled genocidal acts in Myanmar, are now facing higher level of xenophobia amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Iran has said it will strengthen Syria’s air defences as part of a bilateral military deal aiming to “fight terrorism” and counter American pressure.

Police arrested the owner of Mayur-2 launch, which hit another one causing the latter to sink in the Buriganga late last month, from the capital’s Sobhanbagh area early yesterday.

People in the flood-hit districts of northern Bangladesh are struggling to survive with their families as a wave of unemployment hit them hard.

Ten more people died after showing coronavirus symptoms at the Covid-19 unit of Cumilla Medical College Hospital in the last two days.

Rats are less likely to assist a fellow rodent in need if other members of their group are being unhelpful, according to a study that sheds new light on the so-called “bystander effect.”

Three Rohingya men, suspected to be yaba smugglers, were killed in a “gunfight” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The World Health Organization, which faced fierce US criticism over its handling of the coronavirus crisis, launched an independent panel yesterday to review its response to the pandemic.

In a major setback for many Bangladeshi expatriates waiting to return to their workplaces in Italy, the European country yesterday put restriction on entry of passengers from Bangladesh into its territory till October 5.

For more than two weeks, Champa Raptan and her husband Uttom Mondol from Khulna’s Dacope upazila have been waiting anxiously for their coronavirus test results.

Feeling still very week, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman comes to his official residence, the Gono Bhaban, today and immerse in work and meetings with political leaders.

Less than a day after the Regent Hospital’s scam of came to surface, law enforcers on Wednesday arrested the owner of a private clinic in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on charge of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Moscow has angrily told the US embassy to “mind your own business” after Washington’s diplomatic mission raised concern about curbs on media freedom in Russia.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government made diplomatic efforts to stop different Middle Eastern countries sending Bangladeshi migrant workers home.

Amid escalating coronavirus pandemic, the United States has started its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the world body which is at the forefront of the war against the deadly pathogen.

The Bangladesh Society of Medicine (BSM) has found effectiveness of Favipiravir as a clinically proven drug for the treatment of Covid-19 patient.

The government decision to impose fees on Covid-19 testing is “discriminatory”, “inhuman”, and “suicidal” during a rise in the positive cases, Transparency International Bangladesh said yesterday.

Many flood victims, who took shelter elsewhere, are returning home in several districts as floodwater has started receding from their houses.

Thousands of workers of nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna-Jashore industrial belt, passing days in mounting tension before the announcement of closure, are now sunk in gloom with the mills shut down.

Veteran journalist and former chief editor and managing director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Deba Priya Barua died at his residence in the capital early yesterday.