Bangladesh

Save the Children is urgently calling for international assistance to help Bangladesh meet a surge in demand for ventilators to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak and to help avert a humanitarian disaster in the country. Most...

The Bangalees across the country today celebrated this year’s Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year, in a different way, basically making virtual media and digital devices the major means of deriving joy and...

Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s convicted killer sacked military captain Abdul Majed was hanged after midnight overnight at Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital. “He was hanged at...

Bangladesh has commanded a lockdown on a southern district, home to refugee camps house more than a million Rohingya fleeing from Myanmar, to prevent the spread of coronavirus, reports BBC Officials stated no-one was permitted to...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first recognized in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Almost every country of the world has been affected by...

The United Kingdom (UK) has announced 21 million pounds of support to Bangladesh in containing the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate Dhaka’s National Preparedness and Response Plan. The support will also help take preparedness against...

Bangladesh Police is making all-out efforts to ensure maintaining social distancing and following ‘stay at home’ directives by the people to slow deadly novel outbreak that has already claimed nine lives in Bangladesh and over 64,000...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today unveiled the government work plan to overcome the possible COVID-19 impact on the country’s economy, declaring an allocation of Taka 72,750 crore under a set of stimulus packages. “Earlier I declared...

The government of Bangladesh has instructed the authorities concerned to postpone all the programs of Pohela Boishakh (Bengali New Year) to avoid mass gatherings aiming to contain the spread of coronavirus. In this regard, the Cabinet...

A free transport service for caregivers including doctors and nurses began today to help medical service providers go to hospitals in a fast and convenient way amid their fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic, reports BSS....