Bangladesh Cabinet today discusses the report presented to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by DP Dhar, chairman of the policy planning committee of the Indian external affairs ministry, on matters relating to the India-Pakistan emissary level talks.

More than 260 million Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, with church leaders asking worshippers to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus.

The United States called on China on Saturday to stop “bullying behaviour” in the South China Sea and said it was concerned by reports of Beijing’s “provocative actions” aimed at offshore oil and gas developments in the disputed waters.

Iran allowed some businesses in the capital Tehran to re-open on Saturday as the country’s daily death toll from the new coronavirus fell to 73, its lowest in more than a month.

A Bangladeshi SSC examinee was shot dead allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Panchagarh Sadar yesterday.

A suspected drug trader was killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

Five people, including an eight-year-old girl, have died after showing coronavirus-like symptoms in Khulna, Khagrachhari, Gopalganj, Noakhali and Bogura since Saturday night.

A coronavirus lockdown policy that lets men and women leave the house on alternate days has exposed a gender divide in Bogota within days of being introduced, while Peru has dropped a similar scheme after finding it made women’s days busier.

North Korea sharply stepped up trade in coal and oil products last year in defiance of UN sanctions through the apparent help of China’s shipping industry, a UN panel said Friday.

Ireland has successfully “flattened the curve” of coronavirus transmission and no longer expects a peak in infections, chief medical officer Tony Holohan said.

Leaders of Dhaka Union of Journalists have expressed deep concern over 16 journalists, including nine in Dhaka, getting infected with coronavirus.

A 35-year-old man died, after showing coronavirus symptoms, at Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital yesterday.

The World Health Organization issued warned Friday that there was no evidence serological tests can show whether a person has immunity or is no longer at risk of becoming reinfected.

Around eight people, including two children, died while three were injured in separate incidents of being struck by lightning in four districts yesterday.

To prepare ground for the summit conference between Indira Gandhi and ZA Bhutto, the emissary level meeting between India and Pakistan will begin in Rawalpindi on April 25, 1972.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic could possibly be the best opportunity for smokers to quit their habit.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police is set to go tougher on those who would roam around streets as the number of Covid-19 patients has been ratcheting up in the country.

Thick smoke hung over Ukraine’s capital Kiev yesterday as forest fires smouldered on in the Chernobyl nuclear zone, while city officials said no radiation spike had been detected.

Britain’s Prince William yesterday revealed his concern for his father Prince Charles after he contracted coronavirus -- and his worries for his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump was too slow in taking major steps to address the threat to the United States from new coronavirus, a poll published on Thursday said.