Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced a new stimulus package of Tk 5,000 crore to give financial assistance to small and medium farmers and help them face the fallout of Covid-19

The novel coronavirus has spread to 38 of the 64 districts in Bangladesh in 35 days after the first known case was reported

Three more people died from Covid-19 and 58 new cases were reported yesterday with the government scrambling to expand testing facilities to grassroots level and set up facilities to treat coronavirus patients

Fashion and boutique houses in Bangladesh are staring at huge losses after the outbreak of the coronavirus dealt a massive blow to preparations for the upcoming Bangla New Year

Nearly 45 years after the assassination, killer of Bangladesh's independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been executed on Saturday midnight

Abdul Majed, the convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nation's founder, and most of his family members, will be executed tonight

The death toll from the coronavirus in Bangladesh has risen to 30 after three more fatalities were reported. Another 58 people tested positive for the virus from 958 samples during this period, taking the tally of infections to 482, according to Health Minister Zahid Malik

Envoys of Muslim countries in Dhaka have provided six tonnes of food aid for people living under the poverty line and hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak

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

Bangladesh authorities have put 34 Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar as well as the entire district on lockdown amid a surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the country, it was reported

A total of 123 citizens of Germany and several other European Union countries, who were stranded in Bangladesh following the outbreak of coronavirus, left Dhaka for Germany this afternoon

Bangladesh is seeking $700 million in financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund after rolling out its biggest-ever stimulus package to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, Tokyo-based Nikkei Asian Review reports

The government has extended the nationwide lockdown to Apr 25 amid a surge in coronavirus cases and deaths from the disease across the country

Mohammad Taslim Akhter, the managing director of Prince Garments, lost the battle for his life at the Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital around 3:30pm on Thursday

As the number of coronavirus tests outside Dhaka has increased, more Covid-19 cases have begun to surface, which experts say paints a grim picture of the spread of the virus in the country