The government finalises an emergency preparedness plan to tackle the possible spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh.

A 17-year-old boy of Bangladeshi origin is killed allegedly by unidentified miscreants in London, UK.

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A newborn baby girl is found inside an abandoned shopping bag beside a road in Dhaka’s Savar.

A 15-year-old girl is found murdered in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila.

A parliamentary body recommends that only government officials who have at least four years left before retirement be sent abroad for training.

Twenty-five Tokay geckos, rescued on December 1 from Zakiganj upazila in Sylhet, are released in Khadimnagar National Park.

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) announced the discovery of a new gas field in Srikail of Cumilla’s Muradnagar upazila on Tuesday.

Police arrested a youth for allegedly sexually abusing a three-year-old boy in the city’s Motijheel area today.

Law Minister Anisul Huq gives an explanation about the government decision behind the stand release of Pirojpur District and Sessions Judge Abdul Mannan, saying that the judge has been transferred in order to control and restrain the situation over the bail of Awami League leader AKMA Awal and his wife.

Italy is closing all schools and universities from Thursday until mid-March to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, Ansa and other Italian news agencies cited government sources as saying.

Despite its endangered status and international efforts to conserve the species, an Indian Pangolin was tied and beaten up by locals in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila.

Former Awami League lawmaker AKMA Awal alleges that Pirojpur district and sessions judge, who was stand-released yesterday, rejected his bail after being “influenced by a minister”.

Scientists have discovered organic material preserved in 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, including cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes, and DNA.

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain dissolves the party’s central committee amid expulsion and counter-expulsions by a section of party leaders.

The High Court questions the legality of a government decision to stand release Prirojpur’s District and Sessions Judge Md Abdul Mannan, who had ordered the authorities to send a former Awami League lawmaker and his wife to jail in three corruption cases.

All types of security measures have been taken on the occasion of Mujib Borsho, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.

The Taliban killed at least 20 Afghan soldiers and policemen in a string of overnight attacks, government officials told AFP Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had a "very good" chat with the insurgents' political chief.

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Since most neighbouring countries have reported cases of coronavirus infections, Bangladesh is now at risk and Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh has urged all to stay alert.