The White House and Senate leaders of both parties announce agreement on unprecedented emergency legislation to rush sweeping aid to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam has said seeking the court’s opinion to suspend jail sentence of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and release her from jail is not mandatory for the government.

Members of the Armed Forces have began their fieldwork in Dhaka and across the country to help the civil administration ensure that people maintain social distancing and coronavirus suspects remain in quarantine to prevent spread of the deadly virus.

At least six people were killed and 15 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Sherpur Upazila in Bogura district this morning.

A suspected robber, who was an accused in at least nine cases, was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Kushtia’s Sadar upazila early today.

The number of coronavirus cases in India, which has been put under a 21-day lockdown, rises to 562 while the death toll due to Covid-19 in the country is revised down to nine, according to the health ministry.

An elderly man has died after being denied treatment at several local hospitals in Sylhet due to the fear of coronavirus, civil surgeon of Sylhet said.

The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as India announced a full 24-hour nationwide lockdown in the world’s second-most populous country.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged leaders of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations on Tuesday to adopt a “wartime” plan including a stimulus package “in the trillions of dollars” for businesses, workers and households in developing countries trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Mainland China reported a drop in new confirmed coronavirus cases as imported infections fell and no locally transmitted infections are reported, including in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.

Facebook says the coronavirus pandemic has users flocking to its services while it undermines ad revenue on which the world's biggest social network depends.

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Russia's far eastern Kuril Islands and a tsunami warning has been issued for the closest shores.

An Arizona man dies and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

Terrence McNally, a revered American playwright, librettist and screenwriter whose long career earned him four Tony awards and an Emmy, dies following coronavirus complications aged 81.

Law enforcers placed an apartment in Chattogram’s Chandgaon and an entire building in the port city’s Bakalia area on lockdown last night after a person tested positive for coronavirus.

Four hundred years after the Mayflower crossed the Atlantic from Britain to the United States, a group of engineers plan to have a crewless-ship also named the Mayflower, navigate itself along the same route.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says China will provide Bangladesh with coronavirus testing kits, personal protection equipment (PPE), and other medical equipment as gift to Bangladesh on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day.

Global airlines urge governments to speed up bailouts to rescue the air transport industry as they doubled their estimate of 2020 revenue losses from the coronavirus crisis to more than $250 billion.

A woman has been beaten up by family members of a UAE returnee in Noakhali's Companiganj upazila as she allegedly informed police that the returnee was violating home quarantine.

Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) will go to people’s homes to recharge electricity meters if stores with point of sales are closed during the upcoming days.