Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from China's Wuhan city -- epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak -- on a special Indian flight which landed in Delhi today.

At least three people including a child die as a fire broke out in a building in Dhaka's Eskaton area.

Delhi High Court Judge Justice S Muralidhar, who grilled the Indian centre and state government on Wednesday over the violence in the capital that left 27 dead and over 200 injured, has been transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

The Scottish parliament has approved plans to make sanitary products freely available to all women, the first nation in the world to do so.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, also the lead investigators of the of blogger and writer Avijit Roy murder case, releases a video that reveals how the banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam planned and executed the killing.

Pakistan has confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus but both patients are in a "stable" condition, the country's health minister says.

Here are the news headlines so far on February 26, 2020

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal says the interest rate on postal savings will go up again from March 17, once the automation process of the Directorate of Posts is completed.

The newly elected mayors and councillors of Dhaka south and north city corporations will take oath tomorrow.

A farewell programme has been organised recently for IUB’s outgoing Vice Chancellor Professor M Omar Rahman.

The High Court has stayed the trial proceedings of a corruption case filed against former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique for six months.

Malaysia’s Interim Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad reveals his plan for the new government, saying that he wants a cabinet comprising capable individuals and not just party loyalists.

The ban was quietly introduced last month, said Nurul Islam, curator of the zoo.

A suspected drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with police at Bagoan village in Doulatpur upazila of Kushtia.

Here are the news headlines so far on February 26, 2020

The University Grants Commission has decided to introduce a "cluster system" to enrol students to public universities after five leading universities opted out of the "centralised admission test" proposed by the commission last December.

Export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port remains suspended for the second consecutive day.

In an urgent sitting, the Delhi High Court has directed police to immediately escort some 20 persons injured in the ongoing clashes in Mustafabad to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital for treatment, Indian news website The Wire reports.

A Dhaka Court frames charges against expelled Jubo League leader Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan in connection with a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) has sent a report on the medical treatment of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to the Supreme Court registrar general's office, to be placed at the High Court.