Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has disapproved a planned government initiative to expose Priya Saha to sedition charges ahead of obtaining her explanation about her comments during an interaction with US president Donald Trump, road transport minister Obaidul Quader says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Affairs Adviser and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy blasts the US embassy alleging that it is "the one that had an ulterior motive" behind what Priya Biswas Saha told Donald Trump recently.

The High Court directs the Green Line Paribahan to give Tk five lakh of first installment by July 28 to Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after one of its buses ran him over in April last year.

No electricity, no air-conditioning at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for seven hours!

Eight sedition cases filed against Priya Biswas Saha in different districts for her comments “against the state” during a meeting with the US President Donald Trump are dismissed.

A Chhatra League leader of Dhaka University unit has been shot in his leg in front of Surja Sen Hall on the campus.

Demonstrating students of Dhaka University (DU) threatens to continue their movement demanding cancellation of affiliation of the capital’s seven collages with the institution.

The flood situation in Kurigram district has been improving, despite three of its main rivers still flowing above the danger level.

Britain denounces Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a "hostile act" and rejects Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the Bangladesh envoys in European countries to pursue the economic diplomacy alongside the political one as she joined the first-ever Bangladeshi envoys conference in the British capital in London.

British Airways and Lufthansa have abruptly suspended flights to Cairo from Saturday over security concerns, but giving no details about what may have prompted the move.

A fire breaks out at a makeshift room for workers of metro rail project at Shahbagh.

World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its willingness to work jointly with Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) to control dengue prevalence.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on July 20, 2019

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit passes away at a private hospital in New Delhi aged 81.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir demands to nullify the present Election Commission and to form a new commission comprising “persons accepted by all”.

Rifat Farazi, one of the key accused in Rifat Sharif murder case, gives statement before a magistrate in Barguna.

Police Headquarters issue a press note asking people not to take the law in their own hands out of confusion by paying heed to the rumour of child-lifting in the name of human sacrifice required for building the Padma Bridge.

A female student of Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College in Dhaka dies after jumping off the college building.

Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam says that the law enforcers may “shoot if it is necessary” in order to prevent any untoward incident during the Kanchan Municipality elections to be held on July 25.