Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists say, a scenario that spells catastrophe for Karan Kumar, a struggling day labourer in the capital.

Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers, its education ministry said on Friday, after “very serious incidents” occurred in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.

In the emergency rooms of virus hotspots around the world, medical staff are seeing a greater number of men than women suffering severe symptoms of COVID-19, with obesity emerging as another potentially aggravating factor. But experts are still unsure why.

European Union finance ministers have agreed to an economic recovery plan for the coronavirus crisis that France’s minister said implicitly opens the door to jointly issued debt and which he hailed as a French success.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) will keep its VAT offices open from April 12 to April 15 to facilitate submission of VAT returns for the month.

Indian and Pakistani troops in disputed Kashmir are engaged in their most frequent cross-border fighting of at least two years, official data shows, even as both nuclear-armed rivals battle surging coronavirus outbreaks.

Two minor girls were allegedly raped in Brahmanbaria and Jashore on Thursday, and two suspects were detained in these connections.

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog yesterday for the first time explicitly blamed Syria for toxic attacks in the country, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s regime used sarin and chlorine three times in 2017.

She is a cardiac patient.

A Kurigram court yesterday sent two teenagers to a juvenile correction centre in connection with the rape of a second grader in the district’s Rowmari upazila on Tuesday.

During the days of quarantine, people get a huge amount of time to spend inside the house with their nearest and dearest ones.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the White House yesterday during a conference call with staff, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive nominee to face Republican Donald Trump in the November 3 election.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is today elected leader of the Awami League Parliamentary Party in the Bangladesh Constituent Assembly. Bangladesh Constituent Assembly will open tomorrow to begin a new chapter in the history of the new nation.

The government has appointed Additional Inspector General Benazir Ahmed as the new inspector general of police (IGP).

On top of the coronavirus crisis and the feared economic aftershock, Bangladesh is now facing pressure from different countries to take back undocumented Bangladeshis working there.

Human rights groups urged three Gulf Arab states yesterday to lift bans on free internet calls to help their large migrant workforces stay in touch during the coronavirus pandemic.

US Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday over his mishandling of an outbreak of the coronavirus on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced.

Amid countrywide shutdown to prevent Covid-19, inhabitants of many remote hilly areas in several upazilas of Bandarban are facing a severe food shortage as authorities are yet to send any aid for these people.

The Taliban yesterday broke off talks with the Afghan government on a prisoner exchange, a main step in peace talks being brokered by the United States after it agreed on a troop withdrawal pact with the militants.

Two mentally challenged girls were raped in Bagerhat and Laxmipur on Monday.