In another twist to Malaysia's political drama, interim prime minister Mahathir Mohamad says he is back as PM candidate after securing backing of old rival Anwar Ibrahim.

A suspected robbery gang leader is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar.

Roman Polanski wins best director for "An Officer and a Spy" at a fractious ceremony for the French Oscars, the Cesars, that ends in walkouts and recrimination in Paris.

A section of teachers and students of Visva Bharati University offer legal assistance to the Bangladeshi student who was asked to leave India for engaging in “anti-government activities”.

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At least three people are killed and 15 injured as a bus falls into a road-side ditch in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla.

A woman dies after falling off a rickshaw while she was being mugged in Dhaka’s Mugda area.

Nine cultural organisations in Bangladesh express grave concerns over the clash and violence that erupted in Indian’s capital New Delhi between people for and against a new citizenship law.

Five people are killed and four others injured in separate road accidents in Jashore, Pabna and Manikganj.

Two policemen and a pedestrian are injured in an explosion near a traffic police box in Chattogram’s Sholoshahar Gate No-2 area.

A group allegedly led by the personal assistant of a Patuakhali lawmaker stabs the three sons of the owner of a fish enclosure when they protested the group’s occupation of the enclosure in the district’s Kalapara upazila.

Here are the news headlines on February 28, 2020

Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam says there are no plans to deploy army during the Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election set to take place on March 29.

At least 42 people have lost their lives and more than 250 are injured as armed mobs rampage through parts of northeast Delhi from Sunday till Tuesday, looting and burning buildings and attacking residents.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the government to provide state honour and honorarium to the language heroes and language martyrs in order to protect and preserve the memories of the Language Movement.

Mongolia's President Battulga Khaltmaa and other government officials have submitted to a 14-day quarantine after returning home from their visit to China, the state news agency Montsame reports.

A police official in India has been hailed for his bravery in saving families from the clutches of violent mobs during the recent spate of clashes in New Delhi, reports BBC.

Uncertainty grows over the political fate of Malaysia’s 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad after the royal palace rejected a plan for selecting a new prime minister announced by the man who has dominated the country for decades.

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) has again increased water tariff for residential and commercial use.

Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer S N Srivastava was appointed the new chief of Delhi Police today and will replace commissioner Amulya Patnaik who retires tomorrow, an Indian Home Ministry official told our New Delhi correspondent.