Falsehoods and rumours thrive during a crisis and even more when the crisis revolves around a threatening disease.

The first Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh commences its session on April 10, 1972, with a promise to give the new nation a

Several thousand Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Middle East, Italy and some Southeast Asian countries are facing acute shortage of food and other essential commodities as their income sources remained shut amid shutdown enforced by the countries to contain coronavirus spread.

The University Grants Commission yesterday said it would not accept the private universities’ request to postpone its decisions on stopping awarding grades to students without holding semester finals, enrolling new students without admission tests, and holding tests online.

Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists say, a scenario that spells catastrophe for Karan Kumar, a struggling day labourer in the capital.

Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers, its education ministry said on Friday, after “very serious incidents” occurred in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.

In the emergency rooms of virus hotspots around the world, medical staff are seeing a greater number of men than women suffering severe symptoms of COVID-19, with obesity emerging as another potentially aggravating factor. But experts are still unsure why.

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog yesterday for the first time explicitly blamed Syria for toxic attacks in the country, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s regime used sarin and chlorine three times in 2017.

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A Kurigram court yesterday sent two teenagers to a juvenile correction centre in connection with the rape of a second grader in the district’s Rowmari upazila on Tuesday.

During the days of quarantine, people get a huge amount of time to spend inside the house with their nearest and dearest ones.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the White House yesterday during a conference call with staff, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive nominee to face Republican Donald Trump in the November 3 election.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is today elected leader of the Awami League Parliamentary Party in the Bangladesh Constituent Assembly. Bangladesh Constituent Assembly will open tomorrow to begin a new chapter in the history of the new nation.

The government has appointed Additional Inspector General Benazir Ahmed as the new inspector general of police (IGP).

On top of the coronavirus crisis and the feared economic aftershock, Bangladesh is now facing pressure from different countries to take back undocumented Bangladeshis working there.

Human rights groups urged three Gulf Arab states yesterday to lift bans on free internet calls to help their large migrant workforces stay in touch during the coronavirus pandemic.

US Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday over his mishandling of an outbreak of the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced.

Local administration arrested three people, including an Awami League leader, for misappropriating 13 sacks of rice of the government’s food-friendly programme in Natore’s Singra upazila.

Private universities authorities called for the review of the University Grants’ Commission directives to stop assigning students’ grades without holding semester finals, enrolling new students without admission tests, and holding tests online due to the coronavirus situation.

With the spread of coronavirus touching new heights every day, a loud and clear message to stay indoors and maintain social distancing has been sent out to the world.