A local Jubo League leader is shot dead at Headmanpara in Kaptai upazila of Rangamati.

Thirteen more Bangladeshis died of coronavirus in New York and New Jersey in 15 hours, from 7:00am (NY time), a local journalist says.

Former land minister and lawmaker of Pabna-4 constituency, Shamsur Rahman Sherif passes away at a private hospital in Dhaka. He was 80.

A Bangladeshi national is shot dead by Border Security Forces (BSF) on Indian territory along the Thakurgaon border.

At least 1000 samples of suspected Covid-19 patients are to be tested across the country by tomorrow to assess the situation.

A case is filed against suspended inspector (investigation) of Amtali Police Station, Manoranjan Mistry, in connection with the death of a man at the police station on March 27.

The biker, who allegedly ran into Assistant Commissioner (land) Kazi Nazib Hasan while he was on duty in Jhikargachha upazila in Jashore, has been arrested.

Two suspected criminals are killed in separate gunfights with police in Atrai and Patnitala upazilas of Naogaon, says police.

Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 56, says DGHS.

The US death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 5,000 late Wednesday, according to a running tally from Johns Hopkins University.

All students from grades I to VIII in schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of India will be promoted to the next class as their final examinations could not be held due to Covid-19 and the three-week lockdown, says an order passed by the Indian government.

A total of 327 Japanese citizens leave Dhaka on a special flight arranged by the Japanese government for those who opted to return home amid the coronavirus outbreak.

A state-run scientific research institution of India claims to have developed an anti-microbial coating that could kill a range of virus types including Covid-19 when applied on different surfaces such as textile and plastic.

With reports of one more death and five new cases in West Bengal, there has been a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 –affected patients during the past few days in the state of India.

The head of the World Health Organization voices deep concern about the rapid escalation and global spread of COVID-19 cases from the new coronavirus, which has now reached 205 countries and territories.

Legendary jazz musician Wallace Roney has died at the age of 59 of complications from the novel coronavirus in New Jersey, reports CNN.

A journalist is physically assaulted allegedly by a union parishad chairman and his associates for publishing a Facebook Live video depicting irregularity in relief distribution in Habiganj.

At least 25 establishments, including learning centres and accommodation for Chakma and Rohingya people, shops and clinics, are gutted in a fire that broke out at Puntibuniya Rohingya Camp of Hoaikyang union of Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

Two people suffering from fever, runny nose and cough die in the isolation unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

A 16-year-old girl who tested negative for Covid-19 has to return home in ailing condition after being refused admission by four hospitals.