Police press charges against eight people in a case filed over the killing of LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in 2016.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on May 12, 2019

The United States has started a psychological war in the region, the commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said in a parliament session on Sunday, according to a parliamentary spokesman.

Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) authorities have formed a committee to investigate the reason behind 14 children falling even sicker at the paediatrics ward of the hospital last night after they were administered four injections.

A Myanmar pilot safely landed a passenger jet without its front wheels on Sunday, after landing gear on the Myanmar National Airlines plane failed to deploy, the airline and an official said.

Seven of the 37 Bangladeshi migrants, who died after a boat carrying them capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tunisia, were from Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says climate change is moving to the centre stage at the United Nations, three years after the Paris agreement went into force, terming it “the defining issue of our time”.

The High Court (HC) has directed the authorities concerned to immediately remove from the market 52 food products which are found substandard by Bangladesh Standard Testing Institution (BSTI).

A journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and its nationalist allies was hospitalised after being attacked outside his home, his newspaper said Saturday.

Sri Lankan authorities have arrested a Saudi-educated scholar for what they claim are links with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings, throwing a spotlight on the rising influence of Salafi-Wahhabi Islam on the island's Muslims.

Hundreds of nurses in Rajshahi have staged demonstration demanding exemplary punishment for the culprits who gang-raped and murdered nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania on May 6.

Complaints about malfunctioning EVMs were reported from several places of Delhi today as voting in the sixth and penultimate phase of Indian parliamentary elections is underway.

An attack on a luxury hotel in the southwestern city of Gwadar was a bid to “sabotage prosperity”, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says, as police confirm that all the attackers have been killed.

Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli has confirmed the deaths of 37 Bangladeshis in the boat capsize in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia.

About 550 people are evacuated from an Australian university library after reports of a strong smell of gas.

Millions of Indians exercise their franchise as the long-drawn parliamentary elections entered its home stretch to winding down with voting in the sixth and penultimate phase underway across the national capital and six other states in another litmus test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election bid.

China and the United States have agreed to hold more trade talks in Beijing, Vice Premier Liu He says as US President Donald Trump orders his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, who was undergoing treatment in Singapore, will return to the country on Wednesday.

Nor’wester accompanied by hailstorm is likely to sweep over some parts of the country especially Dhaka and the northern districts this evening, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

A suspect in the murder of a woman in Chattogram is killed in a reported gunfight with police at Bakalia in the port city.