India’s coronavirus death toll passed neighbouring China’s yesterday, with 175 new fatalities in 24 hours taking the total to 4,706, according to official data.

To ensure fair prices for Boro farmers, the government under its procurement programme should only buy paddy from the growers instead of rice from millers, a study suggested.

The government has taken a decision to nationalise export of jute, informs Commerce Minister MR Siddiqi today at a meeting organised by the Bangladesh Jute Association.

As the novel coronavirus wreaks global havoc, Bill Gates is the new bete noire for conspiracy theorists worldwide including in Africa where a Kenyan politician’s false online post has added major fuel to the spread of misinformation.

China’s parliament yesterday approved a decision to go forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong that democracy activists in the city and Western countries fear could erode its freedoms and jeopardise its role as a global financial hub.

Bodies of five more people who drowned in a boat accident in the Jamuna on Tuesday were recovered yesterday, taking the death toll to 10.

Another police officer, who tested Covid-19 positive days after suffering a stroke, died at Impulse Hospital in the capital yesterday afternoon.

The US coronavirus death toll passed 100,000 as the pandemic tightened its grip on South America, which is outpacing Europe and the United States in daily infections.

Australia and Bangladesh agree to expand economic cooperation to strengthen bilateral relations between the two friendly countries, says a joint communique issued today in Dhaka.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested positive for coronavirus on May 24, is currently doing well in home isolation and has sought the blessings of countrymen.

The budgetary allocation for safety net programmes would see a major uptick in the next fiscal year as the government looks to widen the number of beneficiaries struggling to make ends meet because of the coronavirus outbreak.

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to sell arms to Saudi Arabia again, one year after pushing through a controversial $8.1 billion contract despite congressional opposition, an influential US senator revealed on Wednesday.

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains since Monday has inundated Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet, while overflowing water of the Sari river submerged vast area in the upazila.

A senior consultant of Narayanganj 300-bed hospital, who tested positive for coronavirus, breathed her last at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday.

An alleged serial rapist was killed in a “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion at Madhumita rail track area in East Tongi at Gazipur early yesterday.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday issued a 14-point instructions for devotees and mosque committees for observing the Eid-ul-Fitr and attending Eid prayers.

Myanmar has done nothing credible to improve the situation for the Rohingya in Rakhine state of Myanmar, said Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights yesterday, a day ahead of the deadline for Myanmar, as asked by UN top court, to submit its first report today on actions taken to prevent genocide against the Rohingya.

The fortunes of US billionaires rose 15 percent in the two months since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a study found, with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seeing massive gains.

China warned yesterday that its huge economy faces an immense challenge from the coronavirus, as the ongoing pandemic and national lockdowns caused massive job losses in the US and Latin America.

Police have arrested Sushanta Dasgupta, editor and publisher of local newspaper Dainik Amar Habiganj, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.