The heads of five international and domestic organisations published an open letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, decrying her government’s “repression of the freedom of press”.

Brazil and Mexico reported record daily coronavirus death tolls as governments in Latin America battled to fortify their defences against the pandemic with fresh lockdown orders and curfews.

Biman has now begun offering chartered flights on domestic routes due to frequent cancellations of all scheduled passenger flights over the last four days.

More than three years have passed and the Public Service Commission (PSC) is yet to announce the final result of the 38th BCS exams, testing the patience of over nine thousand university graduates to the limit.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today visits the emergency control room established to monitor food prices and distribution of food aid across the country. He enquires about the food situation of the country and checks the price list of various essential commodities.

Police recovered the body of an abducted HSC candidate in Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, jointly with the CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation Patrick Verkooijen, has written a piece for The Guardian where she said Bangladesh can offer lessons for others facing dangers like super-cyclone Amphan and Covid-19.

Noted medicine specialist Dr Ahsanur Karim, who had been suffering from leukemia, died from the novel coronavirus at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Police on Monday seized Ron Haque Sikder’s Range Rover which was allegedly used during the attempted murder of Exim Bank Managing Director Mohammed Haider Ali Miah.

The UN rights chief warned yesterday that China and other Asian countries were using the coronavirus crisis as an excuse to clamp down on free expression and tighten censorship.

Italy reopened its borders to European travellers yesterday as the continent slowly emerged from quarantines to restart battered economies even as the coronavirus pandemic carved its deadly path through Latin America.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to take steps to sell the Trading Corporation Bangladesh’s essential commodities to people at upazila level, beyond the city corporations and municipality areas, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

To curb the ever-growing spread of coronavirus in the country, a group of eminent citizens placed a five-point demand urging the government to impose an effective nationwide lockdown immediately and ensure food and cash to all unemployed people.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra has asked the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University to suspend the performance trial of the coronavirus antigen kit after detection of discrepancy in the collection of saliva.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines cancelled all its 24 flights scheduled to operate yesterday and today on three domestic routes due to lack of passengers.

Bangladesh has written to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging for measures to protect the rights of migrants being affected by the global coronavirus pandemic.

In a reception programme organised in the honour of British MP John Stonehouse, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman expresses his deep

Bangladesh will participate in the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Georgetown, Guyana, informs Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad after a meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak today.

Increased antibiotics use in combating the Covid-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond, the World Health Organization said Monday.

When Tariqul Islam, a resident of the capital’s Kathalbagan area, received the copy of his apartment’s electricity bill for March, he was caught off guard.