Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government has decided to reopen markets before Eid-ul-Fitr and instruction has been given in this regard.

US President Donald Trump says he now believes as many as 100,000 Americans could die in the coronavirus pandemic, after the death toll passed his earlier estimates, but says he is confident a vaccine would be developed by the year's end.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with three quarters of them in Europe and the United States, an AFP tally based on official sources showed.

A legal notice is served to four government officials asking them to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and medicines to healthcare professionals and workers at all government hospitals of the country.

Seven youths are arrested in a case filed over killing of a schoolboy in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila, police say.

Alleged grabbers of jhum land at Dhekichhara Natun Mro Para under Lama upazila in Bandarban have reportedly destroyed a banana plantation in the village.

Around 50 current and civilian members of Rapid Action Battalion-11 test positive for coronavirus in Narayanganj, one of the hotspots for the virus in the country.

The number of patients that have recovered from Covid-19 jumps from 177 to 1,063 in just one day. Why is the sudden jump in number of recovered patients?

Four days after kidnappers abducted three farmers for ransom, law enforcers have not been able to rescue any of them in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

An international tribunal has ordered Canadian company Niko Resources to compensate Bangladesh for Chhatak gas field explosion in 2005, State Minister for Power, energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid says.

In the wake of increased usage of polythene as relief bags, the Directorate of Environment (DoE) have urged the concerned authorities to switch to jute bags to protect the environment.

A man is hacked to death by rivals in a clash following a dispute over the lease of a government pond in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila.

Law enforcers recover the bodies of two newborn babies from a dustbin in Cocacola area of Pragati Sarani in Dhaka.

Nine members of fire service and civil defence, including a deputy assistant director, have so far tested Covid-19 positive.

Our frontline soldiers, including nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, and many others, are at a higher risk of becoming infected with Covid-19, especially due to inadequate PPE supply. But the country’s private sector has committed to certain best practices in addressing the current Covid-19 situation, keeping people’s safety and wellbeing, including that of our healthcare professionals, at the heart of its business operations with a philanthropic perspective.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says that the readymade garment factories will be operated by strictly maintaining health rules for the sake of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Armed people recently tried to storm Michigan state governor’s office to force him to withdraw lockdown. In the US, there is debate about whether to follow science and continue the lockdown or withdraw it and resume economic activities.

221 Bangladeshi nationals return home from India on two special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines after being stranded in the neighbouring country for more than one and half months due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

At least 211 people are killed in road accidents across the country in one month of the ongoing shutdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) have issued a statement asking all its staff -- faculty members, physicians, officials and employees of the university -- to not to give any statements before media without taking prior permission from the concerned authority.