Putting forward a five-point proposal, Jatiya Oikyafront yesterday urged the government to forge a national consensus to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

Local administration arrested three people, including an Awami League leader, for misappropriating 13 sacks of rice of the government’s food-friendly programme in Natore’s Singra upazila.

Private universities authorities called for the review of the University Grants’ Commission directives to stop assigning students’ grades without holding semester finals, enrolling new students without admission tests, and holding tests online due to the coronavirus situation.

With the spread of coronavirus touching new heights every day, a loud and clear message to stay indoors and maintain social distancing has been sent out to the world.

Bangladesh Awami League Council today unanimously adopts a resolution requesting Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to continue as the president of the organisation till the next session of the Council.

Rockets landed near a district that houses foreign workers in Iraq’s oil industry early on Monday, including U.S. oil service company Halliburton, but caused no damage or casualties, oil and police sources said.

The trajectory of coronavirus infections in Iran appears to have started a “gradual” downward trend, the government said Monday, but it warned the disease is far from being under control.

Seven people were killed when two suicide bombers, suspected to be members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist group, attacked a village in northern Cameroon on Sunday, police and a local official said.

Millions of lost jobs, mounting debt woes and plunging remittances are among the economic hardships African countries can expect because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the African Union said in a study published Monday.

It took Silvia Bertuletti 11 days of frantic phone calls to persuade a doctor to visit her 78-year-old father Alessandro, who was gripped by fever and struggling for breath.

At a time when many garment factory owners are facing criticism for keeping their units open during the countrywide coronavirus shutdown, an owner has set a good example by giving two month’s salaries to his workers and other staffers.

At least 12 people, mostly elderly, have died since Sunday after showing Covid-19-like symptoms, while many houses have been locked down and families home-quarantined in different districts to slow down the spread of coronavirus across the country.

Two suspected yaba traders were killed in a “gunfight” in Cox’s Bazar’s Taknaf upazila early yesterday.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, president of Bangladesh Awami League, asks his party men to rise above petty interest and engage themselves in constructive work to take the war-ravaged country towards the path of progress.

Self-isolation and social distancing are effective in slowing the spread of Covid-19. While staying home without any knowledge on exactly when the situation will improve, one can nurture a hobby and students can engage in extra-curricular activities with the aid of online materials.

When Sumaiya Akter got a divorce around four years ago, she had nowhere to go with her baby boy. Her own parents had died when she was a child.

Nine suspected militants and three soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said yesterday, as authorities enforced a lockdown to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra yesterday received the reagents that were needed to manufacture the low-cost kit developed by the organisation to detect novel coronavirus infection.

Dhaka city has been virtually paused. Streets are almost empty, shops shuttered, restaurants closed, families cloistered at home -- all attempted to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of Bangladesh Awami League today expels 16 Member of Constituent Assembly (MCAs) from the party for acting against the discipline, interest and directions of the party.