Khaleda urges everyone to stay home

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia urged the countrymen to stay at home following the World Health Organisation guidelines to contain COVID-19 pandemic.

Zafrullah Chowdhury tests positive for COVID-19

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday using the institution-developed Rapid Dot Blot kit.

Sunbeams School principal Niloufer Manzur no more

Niloufer Manzur, principal of Sunbeams School, died of COVID-19 while undergoing treatment at the Combined Medical Hospital in Dhaka on early Tuesday.

Report: Brazil's indigenous people are dying at an alarming rate from Covid-19

Far from hospitals and often lacking basic infrastructure, Brazil's indigenous people are dying at an alarming rate from Covid-19 with little help in sight.

Businesses fear the worst for Hong Kong's future

Hong Kong's status as Asia's premiere financial hub survived months of political unrest last year. But news this week that China is planning to further..

This is now the world's busiest airport... on certain Saturdays

Alaska's Anchorage International Airport lacks the waterfalls and razzmatazz of Singapore Changi or the eight runways of Chicago O'Hare.

Online courts grant bail to 18,000 prisoners in Bangladesh in eight days

A total of 18,585 detained people were granted bail by lower courts in eight working days after the inception of online justice services across the country on May 12.

Arrested police ASI tests positive for COVID-19

A recently detained police sub-inspector was tested positive for COVID-19 in Khulna District Jail.

DU decodes five genomes of coronavirus

A Dhaka University team on Saturday announced that they decoded genome sequence of five samples of the novel coronavirus.

Bangladesh PM to address nation Sunday

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation Sunday evening on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festival of the Muslims.