The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Thursday issued directives outlining that people and vehicles associated with emergency services and supply chain will remain out of the purview of the transport shutdown and restriction of movement imposed to check transmission of…
Chinese researchers have identified a key gene related to body height and bone development, providing a reference for treating people with short stature.
Though she has completed her a 14-day quarantine at her Gulshan residence, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who was recently released from jail for six months, will remain in self-isolation until the coronavirus situation improves in Bangladesh.
Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim assured that the government will provide all kinds of support to continue the production of fish, meat, milk and eggs during the coronavirus pandemic.
Prof Dr Shahidullah Sikder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has tested positive for coronavirus.
An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years.
The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed in the country on Thursday.
Failing to bear the agony of abject poverty amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, a man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at Dalbhanga village in Maheshpur upazila on Tuesday night.
The government has once again extended the dateline for hajj registration until April 16 considering the outbreak of coronavirus across the globe.
The district administration has decided to impose a lockdown on the district to prevent spread of coronavirus.
As New York City faced one of its darkest days with the death toll from the coronavirus surging past 4,000 — more than the number killed on 9/11 — the Chinese city where the global pandemic began lifted its final…
A slum in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar was put under lockdown on Wednesday after a resident tested positive for coronavirus.
Police and Armed Forces members, the government’s frontline staff, are playing a proactive role in convincing people about government directives to maintain social distancing as well as home-quarantine by overseas returnees in a bid to curb the deadly coronavirus, apart…
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has requested people to refrain from offering ziarat at the graveyards under the city corporation to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.
DHAKA, April 7, 2020 (BSS) – Tabligh Jamat Bangladesh today urged its followers, who are now in different chillas (pattern of spending time to different mosques for preaching Islam), to return home from their respective tours. In a statement signed…
Three Tablig Jamaat attendees tested positive for coronavirus in Singair upazila of the district on Tuesday.
Calling for forging a national consensus to tackle the coronavirus crisis, Jatiya Oikyafront, led by Dr Kamal Hossain, on Tuesday placed a five-point proposal.
Five more people died from coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 17, according to the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).
LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tazul Islam on Monday underscored the need for participation of NGOs and civil society alongside the government to tackle the challenge of coronavirus.
Bangladesh has strongly condemned the recent missile attacks targeting Riyadh and the southern city of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jazan by the Houthi rebels.
Jalal Uddin Mohammad Saifuzzaman, director (Administration) of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) who died from the coronavirus, was laid to eternal rest at Azimpur graveyard in the capital on Monday afternoon.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Monday ordered the closure of recognised kitchen markets and super shops in the capital by 7pm starting from 6 am every day.
The death toll from coronavirus has touched 12 in Bangladesh as the country confirmed three more deaths on Monday, said IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora on Monday.
The Cabinet on Monday directed the administration and law enforcement agencies to implement the government directives on social distancing in a stricter manner to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Monday directed all to avoid mosques and offer prayers at home to prevent the transmission of fast-spreading coronavirus or COVID-19.
Uncertainty looms large over the invitation of a planned international bidding for hydrocarbon exploration in the country’s gas blocks due to the coronavirus impact on the global economy.
The government on Sunday declared April 12 and 13 as general holidays, aiming to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Like many others, political leaders in Bangladesh are also stuck at their homes, but still they are trying to use their time in their confined spaces.
Cyber Police of Detective Branch (DB) arrested a lawyer from Uttar Badda in the city on Saturday night for spreading rumour on Facebook.
No one should have known Bella Lamilla’s name.But within hours of her diagnosis as Ecuador’s first coronavirus case, it was circulating on social media along with photos showing the retired schoolteacher unconscious and intubated in a hospital bed.