Amid a large contingent of police, thousands of BNP leaders and activists are staging a sit-in in front of their Nayapaltan central office, demanding the release of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia from jail.

India has reacted sharply to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remark -- backing Pakistan’s stand on the Kashmir issue -- and said Turkey should not interfere in the internal affairs of India.

A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student body of BNP, is hacked to death by miscreants in Bochaganj upazila of Dinajpur.

People returning to the Chinese capital Beijing from extended holidays are ordered to undergo a 14-day self-quarantine to help prevent spread of the new coronavirus, as hard-hit Hubei province reports more than 2,400 new cases.

After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.

Fifteen children died in a fire that swept overnight through an orphanage in Haiti run by a US Christian non-profit group, authorities say, triggering renewed controversy over the proliferation of non-registered orphanages in the poorest nation in the Americas.

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A wild elephant is critically injured after being shot by criminals at a remote area in Lama upazila of Bandarban.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 14, 2020

A police constable is injured in a misfire while cleaning his firearm at Rangunia upazila of Chattogram.

A woman and her two children were murdered and left inside a house in Dhaka’s Dakshinkhan, which the killer had locked from outside, police believe.

Police recover the body of a physician from a private hospital’s director’s room at Matuail in Dhaka.

Police have arrested two locals over an attack on members of law enforcement at Solambaria Bus Stand under Moralganj upazila in Bagerhat.

Terni, the birthplace of Saint Valentine in Italy, is looking for a “romantic” new sister city in the US.

“Cupid’s avocado” for dinner, heart-shaped messages for the crew, but also painful separation: for those trapped on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, Friday is no ordinary Valentine’s Day.

Saudi Arabia has sent back another 102 Bangladeshi migrant workers amid a deportation spree.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the issue of granting bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is under the jurisdiction of court.

Seven people are killed and 22 others injured in two separate road accidents in Gopalganj and Mymensingh districts.

At least 19 children were wounded when a primary school was hit by shelling in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a lawmaker and a military spokesman say.

Five persons have been taken to police custody to be quizzed in connection with spreading rumours on coronavirus outbreak in the country.