Movies that skip the big screen will be allowed to contend for Oscars this year, the Academy said Tuesday in a significant rule change forced by the coronavirus pandemic.

A total of 51 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Japan due to the ban on passenger flights in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak, return to Dhaka on a special Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight.

A worker of a readymade garment factory, who was on quarantine in Pirojpur and had his samples taken for coronavirus test, is found positive for the virus after he returns to Dhaka.

Britain is on track to record one of the worst coronavirus death tolls in Europe, after data showed nationwide fatalities topped 24,000 nine days ago.

A total of 436 doctors have so far been infected with Covid-19 across the country till today, says Foundation for Doctors Safety Rights and Responsibilities (FDSR), a platform of doctors.

Jamalpur civil surgeon and five others have tested positive for Covid-19 in the district.

Pushing hundreds of starving and persecuted Rohingya refugees back out to the sea in the full knowledge that they have no safe place of refuge elsewhere are fundamental violations of their human rights, says Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya survivors and activists.

Sixteen civil society organisations of Bangladesh have urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres to appeal to the destination countries to refrain from the policy forced repatriation of migrants in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

National Professor Dr Anisuzzaman was admitted to a hospital in Dhaka this morning with underlying health conditions.

Bangladesh Public Service Commission has finalised its recommendation to recruit 2,000 doctors and 5,000 nurses to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

The government of Kuwait today repatriated 121 more Bangladeshi workers who were imprisoned or in deportation camps on various grounds -- including not having valid documents.

Farmers and entrepreneurs sold their dairy and poultry products worth Tk 26.72 crore through mobile sales centres across the country on Monday amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

A foreman’s leg is severely injured after a hatch cover fell on him while working at a shipbreaking yard at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram.

Many vendors, who are now jobless due to the ongoing countrywide shutdown, are engaging in the sale of PPE to make a living. Public health experts warn that the use of these PPE suits can be fatal for health and a source of Covid-19 infection.

A health worker was quarantined in a small thatched-hut on a raised platform just inches away from a water body at Gopalganj's Kotalipara upazila for seven days until she was rescued yesterday afternoon.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says steps have been taken so that garment workers cannot enter Dhaka from outside as RMG factories will be operated on a limited scale with workers currently staying in Dhaka.

Tech company Walton hands over prototypes of three locally developed ventilators to the Information Communication Technology division for placing it before the Directorate General of Health Services for clinical trials.

Member of a voluntary organisation has been accused of urging Hindus to convert to Islam when providing relief in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar. This has led to widespread criticism on social media.

Needs Assessment Working Group (NAWG)​ said vulnerable regions require immediate support to cope with the impacts of a coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is to operate three special flights -- one from Dhaka and two from Japan -- to repatriate citizens of the two countries following a ban on scheduled passenger flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic.