Youth Policy Forum (YPF) has been organising a series of webinars to analyse Bangladesh’s upcoming national budget with field experts and policy teams.

Incidents of mugging are happening on the apparently empty city streets, especially after dark, during the shutdown when law enforcers are focusing on containing the spread of Covid-19.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a televised speech to the countrymen on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious celebration of the Muslims, has stressed on following health guidelines amid the Covid-19 outbreak on an individual level to stay safe.

Novoair, a private airline, will operate two special flights from Kolkata to Dhaka end of this month to bring back stranded Bangladeshis from India.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Limited, one of the leading drug manufacturing companies of the country, received approval to market remdesivir, an effective drug for treating coronavirus.

A Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica), over seven feet long, is found dead in Halda River of Chattogram’s Raozan upazila.

An unsuspecting entrepreneur. A mode of transport. Accomplices in the crowd. These are the three ingredients being used for a brand new method of theft in Dhaka.

Cyclone Amphan has devastated Koyra upazila in Khulna district, leaving the marks of its fury at every corner of the upazila.

The British government has extended foreign nationals' stay in the UK until July 31 for those whose visas have or are expiring.

A private foundation of Suhana and Anis Ahmed sends out this message to society’s all-haves while taking some burdens off the shoulders of no-haves during an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that Bangladesh has ever faced due to coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation this evening on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Twenty-eight people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

A Covid-19 patient who escaped from Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal was found at his house in Bhola today.

Another police officer, who was tested Covid-19 positive, died at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka this morning.

India recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 6,767 new patients in the last 24 hours.

The Taliban declared a three-day Eid ceasefire in Afghanistan starting Sunday, via a tweet on Saturday from the hardline Islamist group, and the country’s president said the government would reciprocate.

Thirty-three more people have tested positive with Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar.

Thirty-six more policemen in Chattogram have tested positive for coronavirus.

Brazil has become the world no. 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry says.

The Indian Army troops are deployed in Kolkata and neighbouring districts in West Bengal to help civil authorities restore essential infrastructure and services which were badly hit by Cyclone Amphan on May 20.