Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam says that the matter of giving permission for BNP’s rally in front of its Naya Paltan central office is under consideration.

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the government is planning to set up a national judicial academy at Shibchar upazila in Madaripur in order to provide training to the judges.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has requested the European policy-makers to ensure fair prices for apparel sourced from Bangladesh for incentivizing the ongoing reform initiatives in the industry of Bangladesh.

The head of a robber gang is killed in a gunfight with police in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur, police say.

A young man dies after he was stabbed during a clash over a previous altercation at Tilagarh area of Sylhet city.

A man was killed allegedly by his rivals over previous enmity in Singair upazila yesterday.

Dinajpur Diabetes and Swasthoseba Hospital has introduced facilities of diagnose and treatment of the patients with diabetes retinopathy, an eye disease among children and elderly people, for the first time.

Around 350 families of fishermen community are passing miserable life as they were obstructed from catching fish in Kumirdaha Beel of Saghata upazila.

Re-excavation work of a seven-kilometre-long canal remains suspended after the vice president of Charbhadrasan upazila unit of Awami League raised objection to the work in Ramnagar area of Sadarpur upazila.

The Women’s Corner at Satbaria Bazar in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, aiming at encouraging rural women traders, is about to be closed amid lack of sufficient backing.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal tells parliament that while there are some liquidity crises in the stock market, there is no liquidity crisis in the banking sector.

Forest officials in Panchagarh have rescued an Indian peacock from Chaklahat village and are planning to send it to the national park in Gazipur instead of sending it back to its natural habitat.

A Bangladesh national has died in an Indian hospital after Border Security Force (BSF) tortured him for intruding in the country through Lalmonirhat’s Durgapur frontier on January 20, the deceased’s family says.

Police have arrested 10 activists of Chhatra Shibir from a madrasa hostel in Chapainawabganj municipality area.

The High Court grants four-week anticipatory bails to 109 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the pro-BNP student body, in a vandalism case.

Opposition Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque in Parliament demands that the government investigates the allegations of negligence in screening inbound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, amid the Coronavirus scare.

Just two weeks ago, Ahmed Pharmacy, a small medicine store at Farmgate, had less than five customers looking for masks. But in the past week, the number of people buying masks has almost quadrupled, as panic around coronavirus spreads. The pharmacy is almost out of disposable surgical and N95 masks.

Law Minister Anisul Huq has said the image crisis of the sub-registrars will be reduced if they properly provide services to the people without harassing them.

Speakers demand exemplary punishment for those who raped women and children of ethnic minority communities, including the perpetrator who raped a 14-year-old Tripura girl in Cox’s Bazar six days ago.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming suggests all to remain alert but not to create any panic, saying that no Chinese national here and no Bangladesh national in China is infected with coronavirus.