Emphasising on online classes to recoup the losses caused by the suspension of academic activities due to coronavirus outbreak, Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman has said internet access for all students needs to be ensured before taking any decision in this regard.

A woman and her daughter have been killed when a sand-laden truck ploughed through a roadside shanty in Omarpur Bazar-haat area of Bogura’s Nandigram upazila early today.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd will try to produce any drug that can treat Covid-19, says Simeen Hossain, managing director and chief executive officer of the company.

Indian government-run Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has given its green signal to a multi-institutional project to develop human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that it claims can neutralise coronavirus in patients.

A total of 157 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Australia due to the ban on international flights amid coronavirus outbreak, have returned home from Melbourne.

Rival lawmakers scuffle in Hong Kong's legislature in a row over electing the chairman of a key committee, a fresh sign of rising political tension as the coronavirus pandemic eases in the Chinese-ruled city.

Thousands of migrants stranded “all over the world” are facing a heightened risk of Covid-19 infection, says António Vitorino, director general of International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency.

Incidents of so-called shootouts continue unabated during the Covid-19 outbreak with at least 40 persons killed across the country in March and April, the two months in which the country was hit hard by the virus.

Dhaka New Market Business Association decides not to reopen the markets from May 10 due to the growing number of Covid-19 infected persons in Dhaka and elsewhere.

A Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in Halda River is allegedly slaughtered to death by locals in Raozan upazila of Chattogram.

A decision of waiving 40 percent house rent for workers in Savar industrial area is taken with a view to reduce their burden during the crisis period of coronavirus outbreak.

A Dhaka court places three people on four-day remand each in a case filed over forging the signature of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A total of 99 prisoners have been released from Bogura district jail to lower coronavirus transmission possibility in jail.

All seven members of a family have recovered from Covid-19 following 11 days of treatment at a Chattogram hospital.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen terms the statements posted on social media by some diplomats on media freedom "unfortunate and disappointing".

One hundred and fifty-seven Bangladeshis, who were stranded in Australia due to a ban on international flights amid the coronavirus pandemic, have departed Melbourne for Dhaka on a special Sri Lankan Airlines flight.

A readymade garment worker suffering from fever, cold and respiratory problems dies in Sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat.

The Directorate General and Health Service has issued technical guidelines in order to reopen businesses, educational institutions, public transportation, and passenger flight services amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

President Vladimir Putin sends telegrams to US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggesting the need to rekindle their nations’ cooperation during World War Two to solve today’s problems.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading drug manufacturing companies of the country, successfully produces Remdesivir, the drug used to treat coronavirus.