BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says that now there is no justice and rule of law in the country.

Donald Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president's political interference in the justice system.

India’s proposal to include the critically-endangered Asian elephant and two large species of birds -- Great Indian Bustard and Bengal Florican -- in the UN Convention on Migratory (CMS) Species, is unanimously accepted.

Four persons including two alleged robbery gang members are killed in three separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Cumilla, Narayanganj and Cox’s Bazar.

Chinese suffering under harsh measures used to fight the deadly new coronavirus should recognise that similar methods have been deployed against China's minorities for years, an exiled Uighur rights activist said this week.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have paid their rich tributes to the martyrs of the historic Language Movement on the occasion of Amar Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.

The streets of South Korea’s fourth-largest city are found abandoned, with residents holed up indoors after dozens of people caught the coronavirus in what the authorities described as a “super-spreading event” at a church.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says all the political parties except the anti-liberation forces will get invited to the Bangabandhu’s birth centenary programme.

The nation is paying tributes to the martyrs of the 1952 Language Movement, marking 'Amar Ekushey', the Language Martyrs’ Day and International Mother Language Day.

A man stabbed a 70-year-old muezzin leading prayers inside a London mosque and was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police and mosque officials say.

A suspected rapist and murderer of a seven-year-old girl in Chapainawabganj was killed in what law enforcers claim was a gunfight at Horishpur area of Sadar upazila in the district.

The government announces the names of nine persons and an institution for the Independence Award for their outstanding contributions to the nation in various fields.

A mobile court sends five people including a Jubo League leader to jail for illegally lifting sand from Meghna River at Araihazar upazila in Narayanganj.

Police arrest a man on charge of raping his neighbour, a speech-impaired woman, in a village under Saidpur upazila in Nilphamari.

US President Donald Trump has promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court is told.

A student of class 10 commits suicide last night after she was allegedly raped in Rajshahi’s Puthia upazila on February 16.

Here are the news headlines so far on February 20, 2020

Central Women’s University Vice-chancellor Professor Dr Perween Hasan has been elected chairperson of the trustee board of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) detains a Bangladesh national on Khalisakothal border in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila.

Cox’s Bazar Civil Society and NGO Forum (CCNF) demands that the government make the relief management for Rohingya refugees transparent and form an authority regarding the matter.