Foreign nationals staying in Bangladesh with valid visas will have the option of extending their visas by three months, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

Responding to the government’s call, United Hospital has established a crisis management centre in Munshiganj for isolating patients who have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19).

The government has withdrawn Kurigram Deputy Commissioner Sultana Pervin, following her controversial role in the conviction of a journalist in the district.

The Supreme Court has stayed a High Court verdict that scrapped the convictions and jail sentences handed down by the executive magistrate-run mobile courts to juveniles across the country.

The High Court has sought all relevant documents regarding the conviction and jail sentence of Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam, the case against him, bail order and formation of task force and mobile court.

Detectives press charges against the lone accused, Majnu, in a case filed over the rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area on January 6.

Three tourists have been mugged and stabbed at Cox’s Bazar beach.

Three more persons were diagnosed with COVID-19 in Bangladesh yesterday, raising the current number of affected people in the country to five, says Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

The Tour Operators Association of Bangladesh (TOAB) has postponed its biggest programme 'Bangladesh Travel and Tourism Fair' to October 29-31 due to the coronavirus situation.

Education Minister Dipu Moni today said all educational institutions will remain closed till March 31, starting from tomorrow, as a preventive measure against spread of the coronavirus.

General students of Jagannath University (JnU) are boycotting classes and examinations for an indefinite period, in a bid to resist the coronavirus spread.

Authorities of seven top public universities have suspended all academic activities aiming to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Father and an uncle of five-year-old Tuhin Miah, who were brutally killed in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on October 14 last year, have been sentenced to death in the murder case.

Bars, restaurants, theatres and movie houses in New York and Los Angeles were ordered to shut down and several nations in South and Central America closed their borders in the latest moves around the world to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

Police today claimed that a mugger was killed in a gunfight with members of Detective Branch of police in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area early today.

The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose in Seattle of US on Monday.

The Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital opens a flu corner to ensure special care of people coming to hospital with flu.

Cafes, shops and restaurants shut down across France and Spain and travellers face chaos at US airports as governments step up their fight against the coronavirus pandemic which has now reportedly killed more than 6,000.

All Dutch schools, cafes, restaurants and sport clubs are ordered to be closed as the government seeks to prevent further spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands.

Police arrest a student of Jagannath University (JnU) in a case filed over physically assaulting a female student on campus.