A voluntary plasma platform – ‘Shohojoddha’ – was launched today as a joint initiative of ICT Division, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and some other public and private organisations to facilitate the collection and distribution of plasma from patients who recovered from coronavirus.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested positive for Covid-19 on May 24, is now feeling better.

A total of 677 Bangladeshi citizens, most of whom are migrant workers, have returned from Kuwait, UAE and Maldives by three separate special flights since Monday.

BNP calls upon the government to prioritise people’s lives and livelihoods in the context of the coronavirus pandemic over economic growth in the national budget for the 2020-21 fiscal.

India’s Bharti Airtel today said its subsidiary has acquired an additional 6.3 percent stake in Bangladesh's telecom operator Robi Axiata from NTT Docomo for an undisclosed amount.

Around 244 members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party, who earlier tested positive for Covid-19, have recovered till today with a recovery rate of around 58 percent, according to an official of the force.

The High Court refuses to grant bail to Dhaka Bank's Dhanmondi branch Vice President Md Aminul Islam in connection with a case filed on charge of misappropriating Tk 22 crore.

A Chattogarm based contractor is fined Tk 3 lakh for illegally flattening 24,000 square feet of hill without prior permission from the Department of Environment (DoE) at Raozan upazila of Chattogram, after The Daily Star ran a report on hill cutting at the area.

Ranajit Kumar Roy, lawmaker from Jashore-4 constituency, has tested Covid-19 positive.

Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation's defence minister said on Tuesday.

The total number of police personnel infected with Covid-19 across the country reaches to 6,718, according to a tally by the Police Headquarters.

A man accused in six separate cases including arms, narcotics and robbery, was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Naogaon’s Porsha upazila this morning.

The government has asked authorities of the country’s mosques and other places of worship to disseminate messages containing information on coronavirus regularly through loudspeakers, with the aim of make people more aware of the deadly virus.

In a virtual launch of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for next year’s assembly elections in West Bengal, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah today raised the issue of the amended Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and rebuked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her opposition to the law.

A tax official has died from Covid-19 infection at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

The joint commissioner who allegedly offered bribe to Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner has been transferred.

Forty-five people died with coronavirus infections, 3,171 were infected and 777 recovered in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice to the government authorities concerned to take necessary steps in 72 hours for the proper management of coronavirus-related medical wastage.

As industries in India struggle to restart operations after millions of labourers returned home, having lost their jobs amid the coronavirus outbreak, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has said this “reverse migration” of workers can offer fresh business opportunities for microlenders in the country.

Malaysian authorities detain 269 Rohingya refugees and find a body on board a suspected smuggling boat they say was intentionally damaged so it couldn’t be turned back to sea.