The world is grappling to fight and overcome the coronavirus outbreak. But there is still no effective treatment or vaccine. The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasised on social distancing and self-isolation as an effective way to control the outbreak. And these measures of social distancing and lockdown have been implemented in all countries affected by coronavirus.

A total of 305 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in United Arab Emirates, South Korea and India due to the coronavirus lockdown, returned home by three separate special flights today.

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, has called for supporting the migrants and remittance-dependent communities affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Bidyanondo Foundation has started preparing a facility to turn it into a field hospital to treat the increasing number of Covid-19 patients in Chattogram.

A Chinese national has died after falling off the roof of a six-storey villa at a resort in Kuakata of Patuakhali.

Criminals stabbed a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to death allegedly over previous enmity Chatmohar upazila of the district on Sunday.

Speakers at Magurchhara Day programme in Kamalganj upazila have placed a seven-point demand including compensation to victims of Magurchhara gas well explosion in 1997.

They do not get much acknowledgement for what they have been doing for the community, but they are true heroes of the time.

The government-run fish spawn farm in Bagerhat has achieved a laudable success, producing optimum amount of prawn larvae with limited manpower and a small investment.

Authorities of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology have sued a student of the university under the Digital Security Act for an alleged derogatory post on Facebook about former health minister Mohammed Nasim who passed away recently.

Ongoing virtual functions of the High Court will continue until further orders, according to a notification issued by the Supreme Court administration.

Mokabbir Khan, member of the parliament from Sylhet-2 constituency, was admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka today with breathing problem.

Three people were detained with 1.5 lakh Yaba pills worth Tk 4.5 crore from Ukhiya upazila in Cox's Bazar, said a BGB official.

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was allegedly shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Nitpur border under Porsha upazila in Naogaon this morning.

Only a month after harvesting 85 maunds of Boro paddy from around five bighas of land, farmer Suresh Debnath of Sunamganj was able to gather another 25 maunds of paddy from the same field.

Bangladesh police have arrested around 52 people in 26 cases filed across the country so far over the killing of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya on May 28, Police Headquarters (PHQ) said in a statement today.

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) today pressed charges against seven people for robbing Liberation War Museum trustee Dr Sarwar Ali’s house in the capital’s Uttara on January 5.

Government’s lack of planning and coordination in tackling the coronavirus crisis has thrown the country into a disastrous situation, says a study by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today.

The prime accused in a gang-rape case was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Noakhali’s Senbagh upazila last night.

All offices in only red zones will remain closed for a certain period, the Cabinet Division says in a revised circular.