Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called an all-party meeting on Friday to discuss the situation at the Sino-India border --days after the worst border military standoff with China left 20 Indian soldiers dead in eastern Ladakh.

Three more doctors have died of coronavirus in Dhaka, Dinajpur and Chattogram.

A doctor was sent to jail yesterday, allegedly for sexually harassing a patient in his chamber in Sylhet’s Bianibazar.

A group of youths has launched an online platform --‘Oxygen for Life’ -- to help people amid an oxygen cylinder crisis in Chattogram during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Forty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

The High Court has fixed June 22 for delivering its order on a writ petition filed challenging the decision of Dhaka Wasa to hike the price of water by 25 percent from April 1 this year.

The World Health Organization has hailed as a “lifesaving scientific breakthrough” the British use of a basic steroid to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients, saving about a third of them.

In a massive spike, India reports more than 2,003 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours for the first time with Maharashtra and Delhi accounting for most of them.

Scores of domestic flights in and out of Beijing are canceled as officials ramp up attempts to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese capital over the past week that sparked fears of renewed wider contagion.

Stormy weather is likely to prevail in coastal areas of Bangladesh as a deep convection is taking place over the north Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas.

The report of a powerful treatment for the new coronavirus brings skepticism along with optimism among US doctors, who say the recent withdrawal of an influential Covid-19 study left them wanting to see more data.

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has summoned Haider Shah, chargé d’affaires of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi, and lodged a strong protest on the issue of the abduction and torture of two officials of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad by Pakistan security agencies.

The High Court has granted bail to suspended jailer of Chattogram Central Jail Sohel Rana Biswas in a money-laundering case.

The High Court has upheld a lower court order that granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty in a corruption case involving Tk 9.28 crore.

The Indian army has said that 20 of its soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed a High Court order that had directed the authorities concerned to take legal action over death of patients due to negligence in providing treatment.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh says that it would take two to three more days to enforce complete lockdown in red zone areas.

The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) sacks 10 physicians because they refused to join a coronavirus isolation centre built by the city corporation at Agrabad Express Road to treat Covid-19 patients.

A virtual court today could not show photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol arrested in a case filed under the Digital Security Act as he was yet to be brought to Dhaka Central Jail from Jashore jail.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a youth -- cut up into three parts by unknown assailants.