A band of Singapore superheroes created to help in the coronavirus fight has been shelved after internet users criticised the campaign for being too light-hearted and for mocking Liverpool football club.

Survivors of last year’s devastating Islamist suicide bombings in Sri Lanka held a private anniversary service yesterday because of a coronavirus lockdown as the nation paid tribute with a two-minute silence.

The British parliament returned from an extended Easter break, with MPs encouraged to attend via videolink for the first time as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

Researchers Monday unveiled a coronavirus “heat map” powered by Facebook data which is aimed at helping track the spread of the disease and plan for reopening society.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory.

A Bogura court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping his housemaid.

The coronavirus lockdown imposed in Madagascar’s three main cities was to be progressively lifted from yesterday, President Andry Rajoelina said, adding that a Malgache “remedy” for the disease had been successfully tested.

Twenty five rights activists, researchers and development professionals have urged the government to resume 4G mobile internet inside the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar to ensure flow of information that could help prevent coronavirus transmission.

Germany and other parts of Europe took tentative steps to ease lockdown measures yesterday but officials warned the battle against the coronavirus pandemic was far from over.

A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people including a female constable in a shooting rampage across Nova Scotia, Canadian federal police said Sunday, the worst case of its kind in the country’s history.

Police and local administration officials recovered over 4 tonnes of rice, provided under the government’s “rice at Tk 10 per kilogram” programme meant the for poor, in three districts since Sunday.

Garment workers were beaten up allegedly by a local union parishad member’s men when they gathered in front of a factory for their dues in Savar’s Ashulia yesterday.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been affecting virtually the whole world as both casualties and the number of infected are on the rise.

Clear and stagnant water at construction sites are the most hospitable breeding ground for Aedes mosquitoes and steps should be taken immediately to address the problem, experts said.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman calls upon doctors to devote themselves to alleviate human suffering . “Let the humanitarian ideals

Nigeria yesterday confirmed its first coronavirus case in the insurgency-hit northeast of the country, a medic with Doctors Without Borders who died from Covid-19.

More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, with church leaders asking worshippers to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.

The United States called on China on Saturday to stop “bullying behaviour” in the South China Sea and said it was concerned by reports of Beijing’s “provocative actions” aimed at offshore oil and gas developments in the disputed waters.

Iran allowed some businesses in the capital Tehran to re-open on Saturday as the country’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus fell to 73, its lowest in more than a month.

A Bangladeshi SSC examinee was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Panchagarh Sadar yesterday.