India's government on Thursday announced a one-day curfew for the 1.3-billion populations and banned international flights to test the country's ability to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Indians in a nationwide address to observe a "Janata (civil)…

The United States is fast-tracking the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said yesterday. "We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that's where the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)…

Amid the spread of the coronavirus across the country, the Election Commission (EC) is firm to hold polls as per the scheduled date, despite demands from various quarters to postpone these. When the government itself has announced that public gatherings—social, political, cultural, or religious—should…

The government has given nod to the country’s first health center/hospital Gonoshasthaya Kendra for production of the novel coronavirus-detection…

Dr Ashraf Siddiqui, a noted poet, folklorist and former director general of Bangla Academy, died due to old age complications at a hospital in the city…

In view of the increasing number of COVID-19 patients in the country, the home ministry yesterday decided to ban visitors at the Secretariat to prevent the transmission of the virus. A circular in this respect has been sent to the ministries and divisions concerned, advising them not to issue gate passes…

Mary Grace Aves is terrified of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, but the best weapons to protect her family—isolation and sanitation—are unreachable…