Ordinarily, it doesn’t make sense for a university to stop paying its staff in the middle of a semester that the students have already paid for.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a complete economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore, which is nearly 10 percent of the country’s GDP, to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and help the country achieve self-reliance.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with assistance from Ekshop of a2i, launches Anondomela, an online marketplace, via video conferencing.

In an effort to contain the spread of coronovirus, the health ministry issues a 13-point directive for the staffers and officials of all ministries and neighbouring offices.

Ten members of a family test positive for Covid-19 in Patiya upazila of Chattogram.

Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Abul Kalam Azad is in home isolation after one of his family members tested positive for Covid-19.

A newly erected billboard in New York's Times Square shows the number of US coronavirus deaths that its creator says could have been avoided if President Donald Trump had acted sooner -- and it's called the "Trump Death Clock."

The World Health Organization says that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the Covid-19 disease and that it was focusing on learning more about four or five of the most promising ones.

Agami Education Foundation (AEF) comes to the aid of thousands of under-privileged children and their families affected by joblessness and suspension of businesses during the coronavirus pandemic through food and relief distribution, says a statement issued by the organisation.

A journalist of The Daily Star has tested positive for Covid-19.

Eleven people died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday, news agencies report.

India’s state-owned Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and its constituent lab National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) in Bangalore have developed a non-invasive ventilator to treat Covid-19 patients.

The White House directed all people entering the West Wing, where the daily operations of President Donald Trump's administration are carried out, to wear masks after two aides tested positive for the coronavirus, administration officials says.

A total of 265 Bangladeshi citizens stranded in Indonesia and the UK return home on two special flights of Lion Air and Biman Bangladesh Airlines respectively.

A total of 265 Bangladeshi citizens stranded in Indonesia and the UK return home on two special flights of Lion Air and Biman Bangladesh Airlines respectively.

After a 46-day break, Supreme Court lawyers start filing cases with the High Court for their virtual hearing and disposal amid the ongoing closure stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.

Four retired and two serving members of the army died of Covid-19, Inter Service Public Relation Directorate says.

As part of US assistance to Bangladesh’s COVID-19 response efforts, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller and representatives of the US military’s Indo-Pacific Command hand over essential personal protective equipment (PPE) to Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense (FSCD).

The Dhaka University authorities have decided not to go for online classes before Eid-ul-Fitr as a large number of students have no or limited internet access.