An accused in several drug cases is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Chougachcha upazila of Jashore.

A Kurigram court today granted bail to journalist Ariful Islam, who was arrested from home in the dead of night and jailed for one year on charge of "possessing narcotics".

Students of Dhaka University and Rajshahi University are demanding suspension of academic activities, fearing potential coronavirus (COVID-19) spread.

A man and two madrasa students are killed and 15 others injured when a bus carrying them plunges into a ditch, as a truck rams into it on the Dhaka-Sirajganj Highway in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj.

A man who had suffered burn injuries in an explosion "caused by a gas line leak" at a house in Narayanganj yesterday, dies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

Detectives today claimed to have arrested four people in connection with the death of a woman in Mugda. On February 29, muggers in a moving car snatched the purse of Tarina Begum Lipi, who then fell from the rickshaw she was on and later died.

US President Donald Trump has tested negative for coronavirus, the president's physician, Sean Conley, says a statement.

A total of 152 Bangladeshis have returned to Dhaka from Italy. They were primarily tested and then taken to Ashkona Hajj Camp.

Begona Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez, has tested positive for coronavirus, the prime minister’s office says.

Italians came out to sing together from windows and balconies and applaud their hard-pressed doctors and nurses as the death toll from Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreak kept climbing.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran’s fight against the coronavirus is being “severely hampered” by US sanctions, as state television reports that the death toll from the illness rises to 611, up nearly 100 from a day earlier.

US President Donald Trump takes a coronavirus test, and his administration extends a travel ban to Britain and Ireland to try to contain a pandemic that has shut down much of the daily routine of American life.

A woman councillor of Gazipur City Corporation is arrested for allegedly assaulting two traffic constables at Chandana Intersection in the city.

Leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will hold a videoconference to chalk out a strong common strategy to fight the COVID-19 in the region.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) terms the Kurigram journalist’s arrest and his imprisonment illegal and demanded immediate inquiry into the matter.

Two new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in Bangladesh.

Nearly eleven hours after the 142 Italy returnees were taken to the Ashkona camp, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has now said they can go home but will have to self-quarantine.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 14, 2020

A mobile court has sentenced a Manikganj homeopath to six months in jail for claiming to have a cure for coronavirus (COVID-19) and trying to market the products.

Human Rights Watch said Bangladesh authorities should immediately locate journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, who has been missing from Dhaka since Tuesday.