At least 13 people died after a pick-up van collided head-on with a salt-laden truck on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at Lohagara upazila’s Jangalia in Chattogram.

“Other sufferings are bearable, but not suffering for lack of water.”

Coronavirus: what ministers, leaders said

Beijing yesterday accused US President Donald Trump of trying to “shift the blame” for the global coronavirus pandemic in an escalating row between the two powers.

South Korea is planning to send two chartered flights to Italy to evacuate some 570 citizens from the country with the most deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, reports said.

Italy has closed its ports to foreign cruise ships and suspended the operation of its own services in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Under pressure from anxious parents, Chinese citizens living in virus-hit Europe are flocking back home, with some even flying on private jets to escape the spiralling number of infections overseas.

Amid coronavirus fears, three parliamentary constituencies -- Dhaka-10, Gaibandha-3, and Bagerhat-4 -- are going to by-elections today.

Qatar’s old industrial zone has emerged as a hot spot for the coronavirus in the Gulf Arab state, putting at risk many migrant workers who live and work in the area of car service centres, warehouses and small shops.

India executed four men yesterday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.

Bangladesh is now happier than before! At a time when the country is gripped by panic over coronavirus pandemic, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has published its World Happiness Report 2020.

A fossil unearthed in Belgium dubbed the “Wonderchicken” is providing a rare glimpse into the early evolution of modern birds at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, right before an asteroid impact altered the course of life on Earth.

At least five Tripura children died of measles over last three weeks and 130 others were also infected in Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila.

The Dhaka city dwellers continued to throng grocery stores, super shops and kitchen markets yesterday amid looming threat of coronavirus, causing a hike in prices of essential commodities.

The US Senate today unanimously approves a resolution calling for prompt US recognition of Bangladesh. The resolution, already approved by the Foreign Relations Committee, is adopted by the Senate by voice vote with no opposition heard.

Many public hospitals across the country have set up isolation units for possible coronavirus patients, but a lot of them lack adequate resources and equipment to provide necessary services.

A rare Phayre’s leaf monkey, locally known as chosma pora honuman, atop a tree in Lawachhara forest in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar.

First lady Melania Trump will urge Americans to wash their hands and keep their distance from one another to fight coronavirus in a new TV ad campaign produced with major U.S. broadcast networks, the White House said on Wednesday.

Italy’s death toll from coronavirus overtook that of China, where the virus first emerged, on Thursday as hospitals said they were being overwhelmed and the government prepared to prolong emergency lockdown measures.

Romanians face up to 15 years in prison if they violate measures imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the government announced yesterday.