Prince Charles, the eldest son and heir of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, is no longer in quarantine after showing mild coronavirus symptoms, his office said on Monday, as scientists said strict measures put in place across Britain to limit close-contact transmission could be having an effect.

Three people, including a young couple, were killed as a car fell into a road-side ditch in Muradnagar upazila of Cumiila yesterday.

Bangladesh will remain an eligible country for the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) as the European Ombudsman has found no maladministration in a case filed over non-compliance of labour rights.

At least 31 Bangladeshis died of Covid-19 in the US as of last night, according to the US authorities.

A rough-edged black box with a plastic tube coming out of it, and a small LCD screen -- this could be the lifesaving ventilator for critical Covid-19 patients in the imminent future.

Three men -- two alleged robbers and a suspected drug dealer -- were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Bagerhat, Dinajpur and Pabna yesterday.

People over 60 are particularly vulnerable to severe or life-threatening symptoms if infected with coronavirus.

At least four people, including a teenage boy, died after showing Covid-19-like symptoms in four districts yesterday, while three patients exhibiting similar symptoms and fever have been kept in isolation in Chattogram.

Several thousand Bangladeshis have been stranded in nine Middle East countries amid suspension of air communications to and from Dhaka for containing Covid-19 spread over the last two weeks.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today urges farmers to take to cooperative farming for the optimum use of land and increase agricultural production.

Zimbabwean authorities yesterday began enforcing a three-week lockdown in its fight against the spread of coronavirus after the disease left one person dead and infected six others.

Facebook said yesterday it was donating $100 million to support news organizations globally hurting from the coronavirus pandemic, citing the need for reliable information about the crisis.

The EU yesterday announced nearly 40 million euros to help Western Balkan countries deal with the coronavirus, after Brussels came under fire for not doing enough for its neighbours.

Medical researchers and engineers have teamed up with Formula One outfit Mercedes to adapt a breathing aid for mass production that could keep coronavirus patients off much-needed ventilators.

At least 20,000 workers of 27 tea gardens in Sylhet went on strike yesterday morning demanding suspension of work to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus.

A schoolgirl and a housewife were allegedly raped in Pabna and Jashore on Sunday night.

At least 23 Bangladeshis died of Covid-19 in the US as of last night, according to the US authorities.

Four people were killed and two others injured as a train engine hit a battery-run three-wheeler on an unmanned level crossing in Rangpur’s Pirgachha upazila yesterday afternoon.

Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said the government and the media would work together to cope with the coronavirus crisis.

An estimated two lakh irregular Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus infections with the Southeast Asian country enforcing about a-month-long lockdown since March 18.