At least five persons died of Covid-19-like symptoms in five districts since Tuesday.

Garment workers continued demonstrating on the streets for the fourth consecutive day yesterday demanding last month’s pay.

The Directorate General of Health Services on Sunday wrote to the health and family welfare ministry recommending names of 20 city hotels for accommodating doctors and nurses dealing with Covid-19 patients.

Due to the continued shutdown, people are staying home to contain the spread of the highly contagious and the deadly coronavirus.

In a letter to the organising committee of Indo-Bangla Friendship Fair, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman recalls with gratitude the great help and assistance advanced by the people and the government of India,

Global efforts to join forces against the coronavirus pandemic faltered yesterday after Donald Trump halted funding for the World Health Organization as number of infected people globally soared past two million mark.

Two suspected robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Bejgaon bus terminal area of the district’s Sreenagar upazila on Tuesday.

Several thousand transport workers and their families in Tangail have been passing days in hardship since bus services were suspended on March 26.

As evening falls, an eerie silence now replaces the usual cacophony of honking buses, hawkers shouting out their wares, and music blaring from sidewalk shops at Gabtoli Bus Terminal.

Spain reopened parts of its coronavirus-stricken economy yesterday as slowing death tolls in some of the worst-hit countries boosted hopes the curve may be starting to flatten and lockdown restrictions could soon be eased.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today calls upon the people irrespective of their political opinion, cast or creed to take a determined vow to dedicate themselves to the welfare of the suffering masses of Bangladesh.

Due to the countrywide shutdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, children have been confined to their homes and their daily routines have changed completely all of a sudden.

Saudi Arabia has quarantined thousands of people in hotels, some in luxury suites, to combat Covid-19, throwing a temporary lifeline to an industry struggling just months after tourist visas were launched.

A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A Sirajganj court on Sunday sent seven college students to jail in two cases filed in connection with raping and spreading the video clip of the incident via internet.

President Hassan Rouhani urged Iranians to continue to respect measures to guard against the new coronavirus as “low-risk” business activities resumed in most of the country on Saturday, state news agency IRNA reported.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that public schools in the largest US city would stay closed until the end of the school year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, even as the state’s governor stressed that the decision was his to make.

Hundreds of readymade garment factory workers in Savar, Narayanganj and Gazipur took to the streets yesterday demanding wages of the previous month and arrears.

The indigenous communities of the hill tracts will not celebrate their new year amid the coronavirus fears.

Billions around the world celebrated Easter Sunday from lockdown at home as the European death toll from the virus topped 75,000 despite cautious hope that the pandemic is slowing in the continent.