Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus has instructed the health ministry to increase the number of health staff to 30 in each shift for screening passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Private inland container depots (ICDs) stopped transporting export goods through containers of three foreign companies, demanding additional charges -- disrupting timely shipment -- this morning.

Shunning the poster culture in elections, an AL-backed ward councillor candidate in the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election has titled his campaign “Healthy Ward” and is going for a poster-free campaign.

Oil giant Saudi Aramco has come under fire after photos showing one of its migrant workers wearing a surgical mask and a large hand-sanitiser dispenser went viral on social media, reports Al Jazeera Online.

Up to 70% of the population is likely to be infected with the coronavirus that is currently spreading around the world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, adding that since there is currently no cure the focus has to be on slowing its spread.

China has closed most of the makeshift hospitals opened to receive coronavirus patients in the epidemic's epicentre as the number of new infections in the country hit a record low.

Indonesia today confirmed its first death from the coronavirus -- a 53-year-old British woman in Bali with several underlying health conditions including hypertension and diabetes.

A woman died after brick chips from a building fell on her at Kamrangirchar area in the capital this afternoon.

The High Court scraps the conviction and jail sentence of minors given by mobile courts -- run by executive magistrates -- across the country.

Sampadak Parishad expresses grave concern about the case against Editor-in-Chief of Manabzamin and 31 others under the Digital Security Act, for publishing news concerning the arrested Jubo Mahila League leader Shamima Nur Papia, and demanded immediate withdrawal of the case against the journalists.

Independence Day celebrations will be held on a smaller scale this year in wake of the recent confirmed coronavirus cases in the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today. .

The High Court today scrapped the conviction and jail sentence of children given by mobile courts run by executive magistrates across the country.

Amnesty International has urged the government to drop the case -- under Digital Security Act -- against Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, editor-in-chief of Bangla daily Manabzamin, and 31 others.

A section of nephrologists warn renal disease patients against stem cell therapy, as such treatments have not yet been established as safe and effective.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 11, 2020

Here are the news headlines so far on March 11, 2020

India will donate 150 ambulances to Bangladesh on the occasion of the birth centennial of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has prosecuted two “top yaba traders” in Cox’s Bazar for “amassing wealth illegally.”

Jubo Mohila League's suspended leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon have been placed on 15-day remand today, in connection with three cases.

The maternal uncle of Rajib Hossain, a third-year student of Titumir College, files a no-confidence petition against the probe report submitted by Sub-Inspector Idris Ali of Shahbagh Police Station in connection with the case filed over the death.