Bangladesh records 3,288 new COVID-19 cases, death toll nears 2,000
In Bangladesh, the total number of infections stands at 1,59,679. A total of 3,288 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
Read Article →
Millions at risk in Bangladesh as monsoon floods add to coronavirus worries
The crisis was expected to worsen in the coming days and more than 200,000 people marooned are at risk
Read Article →
At least 30 die in Bangladesh ferry accident
The ferry -- which departed from central Munshiganj district -- sank as it was about to moor at Sadarghat
Read Article →
23 die, several missing after ferry accident in Bangladesh: Report
The Morning Bird vessel was hit by another ferry at Farashganj, just metres (yards) from the country's largest river port Sadarghat, according to report.
Read Article →
COVID 19: Bangladesh resumes international flights
As per the rules of the UK, they passengers will have to, however, quarantine themselves for 14 days.
Read Article →
Traffickers demand payments for Rohingya stranded at sea
People traffickers holding hundreds of Rohingya refugees at sea are demanding payments from their families before they will release them from boats off the shores of Southeast Asia
Read Article →
COVID-19 cases count in Bangladesh rises by 3,471 to 81,523
Despite the increase in the number of cases in the country, the Bangladeshi authorities did not extend the lockdown regime introduced on March 8.
Read Article →
Bangladeshi youth who planned to marry Karachi woman held at Attari
Nayanmiah Abdullah (20) decided to take the ardous journey after the woman expressed her inability to visit Bangladesh and asked him to come to Pakistan to marry her, he told police.
Read Article →
COVID 19: Bangladesh will not extend lockdown after May 30
The shops would remain open from 8 am to 4 pm strictly enforcing social and physical distancing and maintaining other health guidelines.
Read Article →
Bangaldesh: Five coronavirus patients die in hospital fire
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, said Zillur Rahman, a fire service director. Firefighters extinguished the flames in about an hour, Rahman said.
Read Article →
Cyclone Amphan kills 82 in India and Bangladesh, flooding lowlands
Authorities in both countries had managed to evacuate more than 3 million people to storm shelters before Amphan struck.
Read Article →
Bangladesh doctors claim to have found effective drug combination to cure COVID-19 patients
According to the research, a frequently used antiprotozoal medicine called Ivermectin in a single dose with Doxycycline, an antibiotic, yielded virtually the near-miraculous result in curing the…
Read Article →
Workers fear for their lives as Bangladesh reopens garment factories
The factories have been permitted to reopen, but only if social distancing measures are followed
Read Article →
Bangladesh plans to extend shutdown as COVID-19 death toll rises to 175
Bangladesh plans to extend the nationwide lockdown until May 15 as the cases increase.
Read Article →
UN urges Bangladesh to rescue two stranded boats carrying Rohingya refugees
International authorities are now urging Bangladesh government to allow entry of the boats via its ports which have been shut in the face of COVID-19
Read Article →