The United States and China are embroiled in a trade war for almost two years with reciprocal tariffs and fiery rhetoric coming from both sides.

Two alleged criminals were beaten to death by a mob during a police drive in Pabna’s Santhia upazila.

A US court issues a warrant for the seizure of an Iranian tanker that British Royal Marines had seized last month in Gibraltar, a court document shows.

A teenage rickshaw-puller has been killed in Daldali Tea Garden area of Sylhet Sadar, say police.

Social media giant Facebook has recently added Chakma language as a second language option from Bangladesh after Bangla.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on August 16, 2019

A teenage house help dies after she “fell off” a high-rise building in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.

Villagers of Pankhyapara take some measures to prevent dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, in Khagrachhari Sadar as it has taken an alarming turn across the country.

At least three people are injured and over 1,000 shanties are gutted as the devastating fire that broke out at Chalantika slum in Dhaka’s Mirpur area is brought under control over three hours after it broke out.

Twenty-five buses on Dhaka-Aricha route are fined for charging extra fare from the passengers returning to the capital after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha.

Around 84 per cent out of total 49,999 patients, who have been admitted to hospitals across the country, have returned home after recovery.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the debt of Bangabandhu's blood will have to be repaid through materialising his dream to build a poverty- and hunger-free 'Golden Bangladesh'.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has restored mutual trust between Dhaka and New Delhi and brought a change in the mindset regarding bilateral ties, says High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Police recover body of a man at Krisnapur village in Kurigram town two days after he allegedly went missing.

Diplomats at a discussion in Washington DC have recalled the contribution of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to realising the rights of deprived people around the world, terming Bangabandhu a “Friend of the World”.

Noted novelist Rizia Rahman dies at a hospital in Dhaka. She was 79.

BNP alleges that the government has destroyed the leather industry after that of jute in a planned way to make the country dependent on others.

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At least 1,719 patients infected with dengue are admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours across the country, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).