The death toll rises to 93 in India’s Assam after tea plantation workers drank toxic bootleg liquor when they received their weekly wages, reports The Times of India.

Four people, including a rights activist, are killed and 26 others injured in separate road accidents in Tangail and Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka.

At least two persons are shot dead and 10 others sustain bullet wounds in a clash over land dispute in Pekua upazila of Cox's Bazar.

At least 300 vehicles are destroyed in a massive fire at a parking lot near the Aero India venue in Bengaluru’s Yelahanka Air Force Station.

Key parts of the internet infrastructure face large-scale attacks that threaten the global system of web traffic, the internet's address keeper warns.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on February 23, 2019

A California couple pleads guilty to torture and years of abuse that included shackling some of their 13 children to beds and starving them to the point they stopped growing.

The fire that left 67 people dead in Old Dhaka originated from a blast of a private car’s gas cylinder, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon says quoting police.

The government is to form a commission very soon to find out the people who were behind the conspiracy of killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family member on August 15, 1975.

The US government could announce new sanctions to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as early as next week unless his military defies orders to block convoys of humanitarian aid planned for this weekend, a senior administration official says.

Ambia Khatun, the mother of Sheltech and Envoy Group Chairman Engr Kutubuddin Ahmed, dies at a city hospital at the age of 92.

There is a "standing directive" from the prime minister to remove all chemical establishments from Old Dhaka immediately, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

At least seven people are injured when two rival groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League clashed on Chittagong University campus last night.

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, facing the country's biggest popular protests since he came to power 30 years ago, declares a one-year state of emergency and calls on parliament to postpone constitutional amendments that would allow him to seek another term in a 2020 presidential election.

R Kelly, the R&B star who has been trailed for decades by allegations that he violated underage girls and women and held some as virtual slaves, was charged Friday with aggravated sexual abuse involving four victims, including at least three between the ages of 13 and 17.

The Awami League used party men, police and administration officials to influence the 11th parliamentary polls, BNP-led Jatiya Oikyafront leaders said yesterday at a “mass hearing”.

But one thing is sure, chemicals and flammable objects had fed the flames that almost gutted Haji Wahed Mansion and partly damaged three other adjoining buildings on Wednesday night, causing the fire to last longer, said exerts and members of a probe committee.

With dazed eyes on a blank face, five-year-old Sanin lay nestled in the arms of her father Suman, who was standing just yards off the Dhaka Medical College morgue yesterday.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government cannot avoid its responsibility for the Chawkbazar tragedy.

The old town blaze that claimed at least 67 lives could have been even more devastating had the flames came into contact with the huge stockpile of chemicals in the basement of Haji Wahed Mansion.