Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says a vested quarter is spreading rumours on social media to mislead people over the coronavirus issue and party men must be alert to curb those.

Remittance hits a 15-month low in March due to the economic fallout in the global economy stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Kajol -- the editor of the daily Pokkhokal -- went missing on March 10. He left home and went to his office in Hatirpool. His son, 20-year-old Monorom Polok, wrote a heartfelt letter to his father in the hopes that he will see it, wherever he is.

A couple in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh named their new-born twins as 'Corona' and 'Covid'.

A hundred and ten Bangladeshis are among 960 foreign Tablighi Jamaat participants who were blacklisted and their tourist visas cancelled by India for violating visa conditions, officials say.

Around 0.2 per cent to 0.4 per cent of Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate may be lost due to Covid-19 outbreak, forecasts Asian Development Bank.

A case was filed with Kotwali Model Police Station yesterday under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act in connection with the rape incident of a 30-year-old mentally disabled woman at Teghoria village under Jashore sadar upazilla.

A 35-year-old man who died at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital on March 31, tested negative for coronavirus from the samples collected by IEDCR.

Government officials recover a whopping five and a half tonnes of rice belong to vulnerable group development (VGD) programme from the house of a local Awami League (AL) leader in Naogaon's Raninagar upazila.

Dr MD Habibur Rahman, director of Management Information System of DGHS, yesterday during a press briefing said that PM had directed to test at least 1000 samples -- two from each upazila -- from people with Covid-19 symptoms by today.

Five more people have tested positive for coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed cases to 61, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the people to visit physicians if they experience any symptom of coronavirus and not to pay heed to any rumour about the virus as she issues a 31-point directive in view of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Authorities place about 100 families in self-isolation on both sides of a road in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj after a local woman who died earlier tested positive for coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press conference on April 5 on the steps the government is taking to make a stimulus package amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

India has decided to allow transit arrangements for foreign nationals who are stranded in the country following the coronavirus outbreak and the ongoing nationwide lockdown.

From being a killer in the shadows, to having its own international day and UN programme, HIV's emergence into a global reality can offer many lessons in how to respond to Covid-19, the head of the International Aids Society told AFP today.

Canada now has more than 10,000 coronavirus cases and the death toll has jumped 21% from a day earlier to 127, according to data posted by the country’s public health agency.

With most places closed down, street animals which occupy urban spaces with us and often rely on scraps from people are having to go hungry. In Sylhet, people have taken it upon themselves to feed the monkeys at the shrine of Chashni Pir at Amberkhana area.

Saudi Arabia imposes a 24-hour curfew in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, extending measures to combat coronavirus, while other Gulf Arab states lock down districts with large migrant worker populations.

The Access to Information (a2i) programme under the ICT division has identified 3.70 lakh unique callers who have queried on different hotline numbers about Covid-19 and can use the data to find out how many people are at risk, says Anir Chowdhury, policy advisor of a2i.