Md Sharif Mahmud Apu, public relations officer of the home ministry, battles both dengue and coronavirus at the same time.

Standard Chartered Bangladesh (SCB) has teamed up with Brac to deliver support packages to 25,000 people from 5,000 low-income families residing in locked down areas.

Dental surgeons who passed 39th special Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination expressed frustration over the recent recruitment of 2,000 doctors, as none of them were included in the list.

Two isolation and treatment centers for Covid-19 patients were inaugurated in Cox’s Bazar – one at Kutupalong Rohingya camp and the other at Ukhiya upazila.

On top of the ongoing cooperation programme in Bangladesh, the European Union has allocated 334 million Euros and promised mobilising more funds in near future to mitigate the economic and social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sifat missed going out. There was a small open place in front of his house in Hatirjheel, where the four-year-old loved to play under his mother’s watchful eyes.

Results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent exams will be published on May 31.

The United States has appreciated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership and described Bangladesh as a “dynamic entrepreneurial society” whose social indicators have been a real success story.

People busy with Eid shopping at markets and shops in the capital are too reluctant to maintain physical distancing and health guidelines. Such an act is not only putting them at the risk of contracting coronavirus, but also spreading it to others.

Beximco Pharmaceuticals has introduced generic remdesivir for Covid-19 treatment.

All types of operations including loading, unloading and delivery have resumed at Chittagong Port hours after cyclone Amphan hit the country’s coastal areas yesterday and eventually weakened into a land depression.

Thirteen people were killed as a truck overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway under Palashbari upazila in Gaibandha today.

A total of 18,585 people, accused of criminal charges, have secured bail from the lower courts across the country in the last seven working days.

A total of nine people have been killed in seven districts of the country as super cyclone Amphan battered Bangladesh’s south-western part in the early hours of today morning.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka’s Agargaon area.

The government is adding 250 more isolation beds to three hospitals in Chattogram to provide treatment to the increasing number of Covid-19 patients.

The High Court yesterday stayed till May 28 a lower court order that granted bail to Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of Farmers Bank audit committee’s former chairman Mahbubul Haque Chisty, in a Tk 159 crore money laundering case.

To survive the financial crunch brought along by the coronavirus pandemic, the Advertising Agencies Association of Bangladesh (AAAB) has demanded immediate payment of arrears being withheld by government agencies. The organisation also asked the government to facilitate loans at two per cent interest to keep businesses afloat.

The Covid-19 outbreak caused a 10 percent decline in the government’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) coverage in Gazipur and its adjacent urban areas in March compared to February, said a Care Bangladesh report.

For the last three months, Belal Hossain (30) failed to pay his house or shop rent as the salon owner’s livelihood has been seriously hampered since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the country in March.