A state of emergency is extended by Sri Lanka's President, going back on pledges to relax the tough laws introduced after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 258 people.

A fire that broke out at a factory inside the Cumilla Economic Processing Zone (EPZ) was brought under control after four hours of frantic efforts.

Researchers in Scotland say gray seals can copy the sounds of human words and songs including “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”

Thousands of protesters who had blockaded police headquarters in Asia’s leading financial centre had mostly dispersed by Saturday morning with some roads reopened for traffic as normal but it remained unclear whether further mass protests would take place.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines on June 21, 2019

A couple’s slit-throat bodies have been found in Karimganj upazila of Kishoreganj. The victims were identified as Md Abu Bakkar, 25, a rickshaw-puller, and his wife Hima Khatun, 20, of Saterdoria village in the upazila, our Mymenshingh correspondent reports.

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the government is not interfering with the judiciary and the other independent institutions of the country.

At least 30 people have died after a fire swept through a small factory producing matchsticks in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, authorities have said.

A seventh grader of Molani High School in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila has been missing for five days.

A teenage schoolgirl has been sexually harassed allegedly by a youth inside a toilet of a moving train in Pabna’s Ishwardi.

Law enforcers claim to have recovered two bodies from Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila and Jashore town.

A Dakhil examinee has been stabbed to death by some miscreants in Sadar upazila of Jashore.

Dear readers, here are the news headlines so far on June 21, 2019.

In the midst of escalating tension between the United States and Iran, India deploys two of its warships in the Gulf region to reassure Indian-flag carrying vessels sailing through the region about security.

If Facebook's new cryptocurrency should resonate anywhere it should be India, where the social media giant has more than 300 million followers.

A 12-year-old girl has been raped allegedly by a youth in Shampur area of Savar, on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.

Georgian police fire rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters demanding snap parliamentary polls after a Russian lawmaker addressed the assembly from the speaker’s seat, causing uproar in Tbilisi.

Thousands of protesters converge on Hong Kong's police headquarters, demanding the resignation of the city's pro-Beijing leader and the release of demonstrators arrested during the territory's worst political crisis in decades.

Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a civil society platform for good governance, has underscored the urgent need to reform the budgetary system for achieving the country’s desired goal.

Seventeen of the 64 Bangladeshi migrants, who had been stranded in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis for nearly three weeks, return home.