Terming coronavirus situation in Bangladesh “normal”, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the government will take initiatives, including closing educational institutions, if needed.

A 14-year-old girl has reportedly been gang-raped in Dhaka’s Kaula area.

At least 30 Italy-returnees, out of 142 who were quarantined at Ashkona Hajj Camp, have been protesting outside the camp claiming “mismanagement by the authorities”.

Police arrested an engineer in Boalkhali upazila under Chattogram last night for spreading rumour over coronavirus on Facebook.

Microsoft on Friday announces that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy.

President Donald Trump declares a national emergency in what critics say was a long-delayed admission of the gravity of the coronavirus crisis that's triggered the shutdown of schools, sporting events, offices and travel in the world's richest country.

A 68-year-old woman died of coronavirus in New Delhi, the Indian government says, in the country’s second death linked to the disease.

A freedom fighter and his younger brother are killed in a road accident in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila.

Europe has now become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed 5,000 lives across the world, “a tragic milestone”, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

A senior Australian politician tests positive for the new coronavirus and enters hospital quarantine, days after returning from Washington where he met Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General William Barr.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested negative for coronavirus, according to a post on his Facebook page.

Indian authorities order the release of Kashmir’s most prominent politician, Farooq Abdullah, one of dozens of leaders held since August, when the federal government withdrew the troubled region’s autonomy.

A retired surgeon suspected of raping or sexually abusing as many as 349 children over nearly three decades goes on trial behind closed doors in France in what could be the country’s biggest-ever pedophilia scandal.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard claim to have recovered two lakh yaba pills in a raid conducted at Patenga beach in Chattogram.

Vintage car collectors of Dhaka gathered at the Millennium Center at the capital's Tejgaon area today to showcase the automotive treasures of Bangladesh through immaculately maintained and restored classics.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh forms a special taskforce comprising several groups for smooth operation of health screening of all in-bound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka.

With the world’s governments scrambling to contain the coronavirus and the whole of Italy on lockdown as citizens quarantine themselves, the world of sports has taken a hard hit as large crowds and gatherings are being discouraged out of fear of the spread of the virus.

Indian immigration authorities of Changrabandha land port today wrote to Bangladesh Burimari land port asking it not to allow any Bangladeshis to cross to India through the port in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Mizanur Rahman, a youth living on a char on Brahmaputra River in Kurigram, is visually challenged since birth, but that did not prevent him from earning a living.

A Bangladeshi man who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from the Maldives has been sent to hospital to be quarantined.