As many as 536 permanent workers of Kaliti tea garden in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila are passing days amid utter hardship as they have not been paid for the last 13 weeks.

A total of 254 Bangladeshis who were stranded in India, Maldives and Turkey for over a month, return home on three separate special flights.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory.

Two men with breathing problems die in an isolation unit at Mohammad Ali Hospital in Bogura.

The local administration in Satkhira sends 170 brick field workers, who had arrived from Narsingdi, on institutional quarantine as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

UNDP and United Enterprises & Co. Ltd (UECL) have jointly taken an initiative to provide food support to 5,000 destitute women in Jamalpur, Kurigram and Gaibandha in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the largest hospitals dedicated to treating coronavirus patients is set to start operations soon at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) located in Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka.

A prison guard who used to discharge his duties for ailing prisoners at different city hospitals was tested positive for Covid-19 today.

The UN Refugee Agency warns of life-threatening consequences for Rohingya refugees and host communities if annual monsoon preparations cannot be completed on time amid the global outbreak of Covid-19.

A man is killed and at least 24 others injured as two groups of villagers locked into a clash at Bhanga upazila in Faridpur.

The Editors’ Council (Sampadak Parishad) today expressed deep concern over cases filed under the Digital Security Act against two editors and demanded immediate withdrawal of the cases against them in a letter.

Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB) urges the authorities concerned of the government to ensure relief or ration to those in remote areas and indigenous people during the coronavirus outbreak.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate a special flight from New Delhi on Friday to bring back Bangladeshi nationals who have been stranded in India for around a month due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Bogura court today sent a fifty-year-old man to jail for raping a domestic help in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila.

Another 164 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, return home by a special flight.

Habiganj's Lakhai Upazila Health Complex was declared closed after a doctor and two nurses of the hospital tested positive with coronavirus.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against a Union Parishad chairman of Perli in Narail for misappropriating 2,550 kg of rice meant for relief.

Two people die in Khulna and Patuakhali with coronavirus-like symptoms.

An unidentified elderly sick man aged around 65 was left at a char on the Jamuna river in Pabna’s Bera upazila for two days. He was unfed and untreated until a team led by an upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) along with medical staff rescued him yesterday evening.

Bogura district will be brought under lockdown from today to combat the spread of coronavirus.