The WHO chief’s subsequent lavish public praise of China’s leadership for its efforts to combat the disease came even as evidence mounted that Chinese officials had silenced whistleblowers and suppressed information about the outbreak. His remarks prompted criticism from some member states for being over the top. US President Donald Trump has led the charge, accusing the WHO of being “China-centric” and suspending American funding of the health agency.

Summit Group receives $140 million (Tk 1,190 crore) in project financing from international commercial financial institutions for its 300-megawatt Summit Gazipur II Power Plant.

India’s exports contracted by a record 60.28 percent to $10.36 billion in April amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, official data shows.

A traffic police constable showing some Covid-19 symptoms died at Chattogram General Hospital today.

Dharmaraj Tanchangya, moved by the state of some indigenous communities hit-hard by the coronavirus outbreak, put up some of his photograph for sale on his Facebook account.

Police recover the body of a female garments worker from a two-storey building in Savar’s Ashulia area, on the outskirts of the capital.

The Covid-19-induced nationwide lockdown and a much cleaner Yamuna river have ensured that the Taj Mahal in India’s Agra is free from swarms of insects for the first time in five years, an official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has said.

The coronavirus has now taken 300,000 lives globally, according to official figures. But depending on the way deaths are counted, the real human cost could be far greater.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has so far provided interest free loans to more than 600 Supreme Court lawyers with the SCBA ranks so they can face the ongoing financial crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

MP Anwarul Azim Anar, lawmaker from Jhenidah-4 and the teachers of a school have voluntarily lent their hands for harvesting Boro paddy in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah.

Two people are killed and another is injured in a tank lorry explosion at a workshop in Dakshin Surma upazila of Sylhet.

Veteran Bengali novelist Debesh Roy -- a fierce fighter against communalism who was conferred the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for his novel 'Teesta Parer Brittanto' -- dies at a private hospital in Kolkata, his family members say.

Fifteen people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours while the total number of infected has crossed the grim milestone of 20,000, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Three more Rohingya refugees have tested positive for Covid-19 at Ukhia refugee camp a day after the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the camp.

UN Security Council European member states and Britain on Thursday denounced violence in Myanmar and expressed concern over the coronavirus pandemic in the country, in a document China refused to endorse, diplomatic sources say.

National Professor Anisuzzaman is laid to rest at Dhaka’s Azimpur graveyard.

Eighty-seven-year-old Kabir Uddin Jamader dies at his home in Jajira upazila of Shariatpur, only five hours after he was declared “cured” of coronavirus.

Two alleged criminals were killed in so-called “shootout” incidents with law enforcers in Dhaka’s Banani and Khilgaon areas last night.

Amnesty International expresses concern about media reports on hospitals in Bangladesh not admitting people exhibiting Covid-19 symptoms.

Nervous residents of China's pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queue up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign.