The 2020-21 budget of Bangladesh, under preparation now, could have been exciting. The country was having an unbroken run of 6 percent or higher growth rate for the last nine years.

The government has already taken a number of measures to save Robi Cropconsidering the lockdown and because the haor region—especially Sunamganj, Sylhet and some northern districts such Gaibandha, Jamalpur—may suffer flashflood.

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic we have begun to analyse, forecast and speculate the impact on economies, societies, political systems, governance mechanisms, and on many more areas.

It is disturbing to learn that the police hospital in Dhaka has been overwhelmed by patients due to the number of COVID-19 infected police personnel.

Around 50 current and civilian members of Rapid Action Battalion-11 test positive for coronavirus in Narayanganj, one of the hotspots for the virus in the country.

The number of patients that have recovered from Covid-19 jumps from 177 to 1,063 in just one day. Why is the sudden jump in number of recovered patients?

The central bank today directed banks to transfer all interest accrued or to be accrued between April 1 and May 31 this year from all of their loans to an interest-free blocked account.

Nine members of fire service and civil defence, including a deputy assistant director, have so far tested Covid-19 positive.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says that the readymade garment factories will be operated by strictly maintaining health rules for the sake of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Armed people recently tried to storm Michigan state governor’s office to force him to withdraw lockdown. In the US, there is debate about whether to follow science and continue the lockdown or withdraw it and resume economic activities.

221 Bangladeshi nationals return home from India on two special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines after being stranded in the neighbouring country for more than one and half months due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

At least 211 people are killed in road accidents across the country in one month of the ongoing shutdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.

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

One hundred and thirteen police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 across the country since yesterday noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for greater protection of journalists who are providing the “antidote” to what he has characterised as a pandemic of misinformation surrounding the Covid-19 crisis.

Government agencies and banks have almost completed their preparations to implement 18 stimulus packages worth Tk 95,619 crore to tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

In recent years, Dhaka was developing an eating-out culture for iftar and sehri, like in the cosmopolitan cities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia,

Press freedom in Bangladesh has been in decline long before the coronavirus came to our shores.

As COVID-19 spreads, repression and disinformation have generally followed in its wake.

It is a matter of grave concern that we still do not have enough designated hospitals or institutions to conduct Covid-19 tests. While initially only the