Awami League MP and former chief whip of parliament Abdus Shahid tested positive for Covid-19 today.

The Daily Star’s official mobile application is now available for download via Huawei’s proprietary App Gallery.

As the Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the world, it has also induced countless rare incidents. Whilst the virus is trying to defeat humanity, people are fighting against it -- setting examples of solidarity. The volunteers of Quantum Foundation in Pabna have set such an example.

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order will seek to improve how police officers treat African Americans and others by improving credentialing, training and mental health resources, administration officials said.

British citizen Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join ISIS in February 2015, has no Bangladeshi citizenship rights, the foreign ministry said in a statement today.

Taking advantage of lax monitoring and thin presence of public transport amid the Covid-19 outbreak, smugglers are allegedly using courier services to send narcotics from bordering districts to Dhaka.

Members of Kotwali police under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) starts home delivery of medicines to ensure city dwellers get their medicines at fair prices and do not have to get out of the house.

A police sub-inspector and his associate are caught red-handed with 11,600 pieces of yaba while selling the drugs to narcotics dealers in Mohamamdpur area of the capital.

US airline passengers who refuse to wear face coverings during the novel coronavirus pandemic could have their flying privileges revoked under tougher enforcement policies, the industry’s main lobby group says.

Giving low doses of the generic steroid drug dexamethasone to patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 reduced death rates by around a third among those with the most severe cases of infection, shows trial data.

Mukabbir Khan, member of the parliament from Sylhet-2 constituency, who is admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka yesterday tested positive for coronavirus.

A mobile court last night jailed a fake doctor of a private hospital in Dhaka’s Shyamoli area and fined its owner and manager Tk six lakh in total on charge of providing substandard service to patients.

The world is grappling to fight and overcome the coronavirus outbreak. But there is still no effective treatment or vaccine. The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasised on social distancing and self-isolation as an effective way to control the outbreak. And these measures of social distancing and lockdown have been implemented in all countries affected by coronavirus.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) says it launched a technology-aided system in some of its facilities to maintain social distancing, called ‘Distance Assistant’.

Bangladesh Army will intensify patrol in the ‘red zone’ areas.

The government files an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court order asking authorities concerned to ensure that no government or private hospital in the country refuses treatment to any patient -- infected with Covid-19 or not.

A virtual court in Dhaka today has both the remand and bail petitions of four accused, including cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.

Flight operations on international routes, except to China, resumed today on a limited scale after over three months’ suspension -- to and from Bangladesh -- due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

A virtual court in Dhaka has placed expelled Jubo League leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan on a three-day remand in a money laundering case through videoconferencing.