Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines on February 18, 2019

Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Md Shawkat Hossain, two sitting judges of High Court Division of the Supreme Court, have been appointed members of Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission (BJSC) for next five years.

Former shipping minister Shahjahan Khan slams opposition MP Fakhrul Imam for raising a question about formation of a committee headed by him for restoring discipline in the transport sector and demands that the Speaker expunge the Jatiya Party MP’s remarks.

A court in the Maldives orders the arrest and detention of former president Abdulla Yameen on suspicion of money laundering.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader tells the parliament that the country’s all highways will gradually be upgraded from two lanes to eight lanes as part of the government’s plan to develop the highway network.

The High Court questions the legality of Bangladesh Bar Council rules that allow the lower court lawyers having 25 years’ experience to practise at the High Court only after passing the viva voce.

Election Commission Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed says the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) will be used from the third phase of Upazila Parishad elections.

Seven Labour lawmakers quit Britain's main opposition party over leader Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Labour had been "hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left."

Gunmen have attacked a Pakistani security post in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan killing four paramilitary soldiers, officials say.

Hello readers! How are you doing today? Here are the headlines so far on February 18, 2019

Facebook is “open to meaningful regulation”, it says after British lawmakers said that big technology companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news and abuse of users’ data.

Police recover a grenade and 28 bullets from inside a dustbin in Dhaka’s Paltan area.

Raising a rural population that has been declining for come 30 years has long been near the top of the government agenda, with some municipal governments resorting to helping pay for foreign brides.

Four journalists have been beaten up allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists on Murari Chand College campus in Sylhet during a clash between two factions of the pro-Awami League front.

Two Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists suspected to be linked with last Thursday’s deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir on Indian paramilitary troops killing 40 of them, was killed in a gun battle in the state's Pulwama district today, defence officials said.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has instructed lawmen to remain neutral during the upcoming city corporation and upazila parishad elections.

Bangladesh’s leading cultural outfit Chhayanaut is conferred the Indian government’s prestigious Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Harmony award for 2015 at an impressive function in New Delhi of India.

The government blocks 55 more pornographic websites as per its initiatives of internet safety solution programme in the country.

Police arrest 22 people including two incumbent and former councillors of Narayanganj City Corporation following a clash over the committee of a local mosque that left 12 people injured.

The High Court (HC) rejects a writ petition that challenged the legality of oath taking by lawmakers elected in the December 30 general election.