At least five million people in Bangladesh are currently affected by extreme poverty, says Planning Minister MA Mannan.

Two construction workers die of electrocution when they were working at an under-construction building in Dhaka’s Rayerbazar area.

Amid talks of Nepal-Bangladesh dedicated transmission line passing through the Siliguri corridor in India, the secretary level meeting between energy officials of both countries has agreed to use the existing setup of Indian transmission lines to trade power in the short run.

​India rejects a US report on religious freedom, saying it sees no locus standi for a foreign government to pronounce on the state of its citizens' constitutionally protected rights.

Australia's competition watchdog is poised to call for far-reaching new regulations on Facebook, Google and other tech giants which could have global ramifications for how they make money and choose the content people consume.

For the fifth time, the most exciting competition for creative professionals ‘Young Lions Competition Bangladesh’ has been held in the capital.

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) submits a report to the High Court saying that it has recently tested seasonal fruits and found no health hazardous chemicals in them.

A local Jubo League leader is hacked to death by miscreants in Naria upazila of Shariatpur.

Political affiliation of upper-level officers is given emphasis when it comes to promotion rather than merit, skill or seniority, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) says.

The High Court wants to know the names and particulars of the companies and firms that are producing and supplying milk and curd in Dhaka without having any license.

Ethiopia's army chief of staff has been shot, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announces on television as the government said it had thwarted an attempted coup in a regional state of this Horn of Africa nation.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a personal letter from US President Donald Trump and will put serious thought into its content, North Korea's state-run news agency KCNA said.

Two alleged human traffickers including a Rohingya youth are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

A Supreme Court full bench upholds a High Court verdict that declared illegal the government circulars and gazette notifications fixing the minimum age of freedom fighters at 12 and a half years in 1971.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would impose fresh sanctions on Iran but that he wanted to make a deal to bolster its flagging economy, an apparent move to defuse tensions following the shooting down of an unmanned US drone this week by the Islamic Republic.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that Awami League was formed on this day in 1949 to bring back the independence of Bangladesh which was lost in Amrakanon on June 23, 1757 through the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal.

Lawmakers from treasury and opposition benches lambaste Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal for keeping insufficient allocation for education, health and culture sectors in the proposed budget for 2019-20 fiscal year.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on June 22, 2019

BNP has decided to announce a month-long programme within four weeks to realise its demand for immediate release of party’s imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Disclosing the names of defaulters will not be enough to arrest the rising default loans in the banking sector, two experts say.