786 tested positive for the coronavirus in 24 hours, the DGHS has confirmed. Meanwhile, 1 person died and 193 have recovered across the country.

The counter terrorism unit claims to have arrested 17 members of JMB from the capital’s Kakrail, who were planning to join a so-called jihad after migrating into Saudi Arabia.

As the Chris Hemsworth starrer “Extraction” continues on pace to become Netflix’s most-watched feature film ever, Joe Russo of “Avengers: Endgame” and “Avengers: Infinity War” fame has closed a deal to write another installment of the action film, according to online news site, Deadline.

A resident of Dhaka sens legal notice to the mayors of Dhaka north and south city corporations, health secretary and director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, requesting them to take necessary steps in 24 hours to kill aedes mosquito that causes dengue fever.

A journalist from Sunamganj is arrested in a case filed under Digital Security Act for allegedly posting a defamatory status on Facebook involving parliamentarian Mouazzam Hossain Ratan of Sunamganj-1 constituency.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has filed an application to show photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol arrested in a case file under the digital security act.

Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys,” was awarded the fiction prize Monday. Three years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel “The Underground Railroad.”

A new forecast projects nearly 135,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of August mainly due to reopening measures under way, says the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

The doctor who treated the first Covid-19 patient in the United States has he fears a second outbreak of the disease when lockdown measures are lifted.

The World Health Organization says that Washington has provided no evidence to support "speculative" claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.

The government appoints 2,000 doctors as assistant surgeons in the BCS (Health) Cadre to fight the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

A 50-bed health complex in Goshairhat upazila of Shariatpur has been put under lockdown after the domestic help of a nurse there tests positive for coronavirus.

A Saudi expatriate, who died on Monday morning at his home in Enayet Bazar area of Chattogram city, is found Covid-19 positive.

The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials familiar with US planning.

Italy’s coronavirus death toll is much higher than reported, statistics bureau ISTAT says in an analysis pointing to thousands of fatalities that have never been officially attributed to Covid-19.

United Nations leaders call for a global effort to develop and distribute to all at affordable prices vaccines, treatments and testing kits against Covid-19.

Counterterrorism officials claim to have arrested three suspected members of banned militant outfit Neo JMB in connection with an attack on a traffic police box in Chattogram city in February this year.

Japan has extended a grant of approximately Tk 24 million to three Bangladeshi NGOs -- Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS), Prism Bangladesh Foundation (PRISM) and Trust for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (TRP).

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen urges Non-Allied Movement (NAM) members to find innovative solutions and approaches to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Deputy commissioner of Habiganj district tests positive for Covid-19 and is placed in home quarantine.