Bangladeshis should welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the country instead of protesting his visit, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 2, 2020

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received t-shirts, mugs and posters for the upcoming “Joy Bangla Concert-2020” to be held on March 7.

A total of 534 people were killed and 1,169 injured in 504 incidents of road accidents last month, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said in a report today.

A man has been shot and about 30 people taken hostage on Monday by a gunman at a mall in the Philippine capital Manila, where armed police and negotiators were trying to end the standoff peacefully.

Pete Buttigieg closed his presidential campaign much the same way he started it: with a reminder he began with just four staff, a big idea and an unknown -- and unpronounceable -- last name.

Author and activist Arundhati Roy has said the Modi government is acting as though the constitution does not exist and they are doing everything to completely dismantle democracy.

Two persons have been killed and another injured as a fire broke out at a tin-shed structure in Halishahar of Chattogram.

Tabith Awal files a suit with an election tribunal in Dhaka, demanding cancellation of the Dhaka North City Corporation polls held on February 1.

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing two officials at a checkpoint set up to control the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak.

The country does not want to face any situation which might affect secularism, Dr Gowher Rizvi, foreign affairs adviser to the prime minister, has said.

An alleged drug-trader is killed in a “gunfight” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf.

Health officials in Washington state say that a nursing home resident died after contracting coronavirus, while New York's governor confirms his state's first positive case, as the virus moves out of its West Coast foothold.

Rapid Action Battalion has said seven robbers were killed in an alleged gunfight in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

One more person who was injured in the fire that broke out at Eskaton's Dilu Road last Thursday died at a hospital in Dhaka today, raising the death toll to five.

Dhaka has been selected as the OIC Youth Capital 2020.

The High Court wants to know the details of former National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) officials who were found negligent in preserving and protecting hospital equipment, including their present addresses and status.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 1, 2020

Forty-four eminent citizens demand unconditional release of folk singer Shariat Boyati, who is now in jail in a case filed on charge of hurting religious sentiment under Digital Security Act.

Dhaka considers the recent Delhi violence as India’s domestic issue and expects the country’s authorities to control it, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen says.