Hinting at a conspiracy regarding dengue outbreak around the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says there is no country in the world which does not have the viral disease.

United Nations investigators urge world leaders to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.

Four members of a family suffered burn injuries after an air conditioner (AC) reportedly exploded at their house in Kathalbagan area of Dhaka.

Hong Kong is plunged into fresh chaos as a general strike followed another weekend of violent protests, paralysing transport, leading to more than 200 flight cancellations and bringing the city to an unprecedented standstill.

Three people die after they were diagnosed with dengue and were being treated at different hospitals in Dhaka.

Aysha Siddika Minni files a petition with the High Court through lawyer seeking bail in a case filed over the murder of her husband Rifat Sharif.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is testing a smartphone equipped with Hongmeng, the company’s self-developed operating system, which could potentially go on sale by the end of this year, Chinese state-media outlet Global Times reported.

Five people, including an accused in a case filed over a gang rape incident, are killed in reported gunfights in Mymensingh, Habiganj, and Cox's Bazar districts.

Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir place large parts of the disputed region under lockdown while India sends in tens of thousands of additional troops and trades accusations of clashes with Pakistan at their de facto border.

Inter-district bus owners in Chattogram call an indefinite transport strike.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to India in October this year to improve further the bilateral relations between the two friendly neighbours.

None of the members of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s family and her relatives has applied to the government for her release from jail on parole, says Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, a lawyer for Khaleda and a BNP leader.

Coming down hard on the government over the dengue epidemic across the country, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that the country has been made worse than the land of Hirak Raja.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on August 4, 2019.

The online application process for admission into the first-year honours programmes in Dhaka University (DU) under 2019-2020 academic session will begin tomorrow.

Two girls, including a student of Eden Women College, die of dengue fever in Dhaka.

The traffic lawbreakers from now will be able to pay fines by using their debit or credit cards on the spot.

The bus owners’ association ask all the bus operators to use mosquito spray inside their vehicle before leaving Dhaka with Eid holidaymakers.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) releases five images of the Earth taken by Chandrayaan 2, the country’s second unmanned lunar mission, two weeks after its launch.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) begins an investigation whether there had been any corruption in procuring the mosquito insecticides by Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).