Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on February 7, 2020

Awami League General Secretary and Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says negative politics caused BNP to suffer defeat in the recently-held Dhaka city corporation elections.

State Minister for Shipping Khaled Mahmud says that the government would take immediate action if any incident of river grabbing is reported anywhere in the country.

Locals in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria are in a state of panic as natural gas has been coming out of an under-construction tube-well for three days at a school, about two kilometres away from Salda Gas Field.

A fire that broke out at a shoe sole factory in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur is brought under control.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, the Taliban terrorist responsible for shooting Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai in 2012 and carrying out the deadly Peshawar Army school terror attack in 2014, which killed 132 students, has escaped from prison, according to an audio clip released by him.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam says that the matter of giving permission for BNP’s rally in front of its Naya Paltan central office is under consideration.

Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), loses the first stage of an appeal against the decision to revoke her British citizenship, reports Yahoo News UK.

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the government is planning to set up a national judicial academy at Shibchar upazila in Madaripur in order to provide training to the judges.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has requested the European policy-makers to ensure fair prices for apparel sourced from Bangladesh for incentivizing the ongoing reform initiatives in the industry of Bangladesh.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 7, 2020

President Donald Trump confirms that the US had killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- days after the jihadist group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US naval base.

Another 41 people on a cruise ship quarantined off Japan have the new coronavirus, the country's health minister says, confirming more on board will now be tested for the illness.

Bangladesh experiences both positive and negative developments in the case of rivers. Good developments include the High Court’s judgement declaring rivers as a “legal entity”; new energy that the government displayed in freeing rivers from encroachment; combating pollution.

An estimated 1.48 crore people of Delhi are to be eligible to exercise their franchise when they elect a new 70-member assembly for the city-state at the end of a high-octane and sharply-polarised campaign over protests against amended citizenship law (CAA).

US President Donald Trump expresses his "confidence" in China's ability to tackle the novel coronavirus epidemic during talks with his Beijing counterpart Xi Jinping, the White House said.

The head of a robber gang is killed in a gunfight with police in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur, police say.

US President Donald Trump celebrates his acquittal on impeachment charges with a pair of caustic, freewheeling speeches that drew on White House pomp and the solemnity of an annual prayer breakfast to underscore the fact that he remained in office.

The death of a whistleblowing doctor whose early warnings about China's new coronavirus outbreak were suppressed by the police unleashes a wave of anger at the government's handling of the crisis -- and bold demands for more freedom.

A young man dies after he was stabbed during a clash over a previous altercation at Tilagarh area of Sylhet city.