Thirty people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu today lauded Bangladesh’s progress, saying that the country has become a “rising star” in South Asia under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Incoming passengers from the United Kingdom will have to stay in seven-day institutional quarantine -- in order to prevent transmission of the new strain of coronavirus in the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

CID has appealed to the court to freeze all bank accounts and property of independent lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul and his family members.

Over 100 Saudi-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers were forced to return from Abu Dhabi airport last night following the sudden decision of the Saudi government to suspend all international flights, including to and from Dhaka.

Junayed Babunagari, amir of Hefajat-e-Islam, said Shah Ahmad Shafi, former amir of the Islamist group, died a natural death, calling the allegation of “killing” Shafi “politically motivated”.

A Bangladeshi national was shot dead by India's Border Security Force (BSF) along the Gubrakura border under Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh last night.

Twenty-nine Bangladeshi nationals, who were released from Malir and Karachi jails of Pakistan, are set to return to the country today.

Three French police officers were shot dead when a man opened fire on them when they arrived at a house in a remote village in response to a call about domestic violence against a woman, police said today.

Rab claimed to have arrested six drug peddlers along with two kgs of cocaine during separate drives in Dhaka’s Jatrabari and Gulistan areas yesterday.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that stayed the trial proceedings of a case filed against Prothom Alo Editor and Publisher Matiur Rahman over the death of Dhaka Residential Model College student Naimul Abrar Rahat.

Saudi Arabia’s Islamic affairs minister confirmed that many imams were fired in recent weeks after failing to follow the directive of warning citizens against the group called Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology.

Commuters of Sylhet continued to suffer as road communication of the division with the rest of the country remained suspended for the second consecutive day today.

As air quality in Dhaka has drastically worsened with the arrival of winter, the government has decided to conduct mobile court drives to curb the level of air pollution.

The coronavirus has landed in Antarctica, the last continent previously free from COVID-19, Chile’s military said this week, as health and army officials scrambled to clear out and quarantine staff from a remote research station surrounded by ocean and icebergs.

A section of lawyers of Dhaka Bar Association is holding a demonstration in front of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court demanding immediate withdrawal of the additional chief metropolitan magistrate for keeping a lawyer on the dock for two hours yesterday.

President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to not sign an $892 billion coronavirus relief bill that includes desperately needed money for individual Americans, saying it should be amended to increase the amount in the stimulus checks.

French and EU citizens will again be allowed to enter France from Britain from Tuesday midnight provided they have a negative Covid-19 test that is less than 72 hours old, the French prime minister’s office has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws granting former Russian presidents expanded immunity from prosecution and allowing them to become senators for life in the upper house of parliament once they leave the Kremlin.

India is likely to approve Oxford/AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use by next week after its local manufacturer submitted additional data sought by authorities, two sources with knowledge of the matter have told Reuters.