At least 63 garment factories across the country are closed in 2019, leaving 32,582 RMG workers unemployed, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi tells Parliament.

Indian authorities have set up coronavirus screening and testing centres along the borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials say.

With chants of “Porbo Boi, Gorbo Desh, Bangabandhur Bangladesh”, government officials and students in Tangail have celebrated National Library Day 2020.

A fire breaks out in Popular Diagnostic Centre in the city’s Dhanmondi area.

Criminal Investigation Department arrests three members of a gang allegedly involved in doctoring lower courts’ documents and helping people secure bail by presenting those in the High Court.

The prices of most everyday commodities including onion, ginger and garlic have risen at the country's largest wholesale market at Chattogram's Khatunganj, largely due to the spread of coronavirus in China.

At least 445 people are killed and 834 others injured in 340 road accidents across the country in January this year.

A Dinajpur court sentences five people to death for killing a child after abduction in Ghoraghat upazila in 2015.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) destroys 370 litres of South American liquid cocaine that were smuggled into Chattogram Port from Bolivia in guise of sunflower oil consignment in 2015.

Twenty eminent personalities and an organisation will receive the country’s second-highest civilian award, Ekushey Padak, this year in recognition of their contributions to various fields.

Counterterrorism officials arrest the alleged chief of the female wing of militant group “Neo JMB” from the city’s Kamalapur area.

The High Court (HC) observes that Bangabandhu’s historical March 7 speech, declaring independence of Bangladesh, should be included in textbooks for all students so that the youths can learn about its significance.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the Chancery Building of Bangladesh Embassy in Rome.

A Dhaka court places a man on a one-day remand in an arms case filed over shooting at a clash between supporters of BNP and Awami League candidates in Wari on January 26.

US President Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, dubbed the “Deal of the Century”, will die before Trump dies, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says in a tweet from his official account.

Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China’s Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73 percent of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirmed infections.

Six trained horses are imported from India for the Bangladesh Police through Benapole Port.

The general secretary of ruling Awami League Obaidul Quader says no instance of vote rigging or forgery are reported by any foreign observers in the recently concluded Dhaka city polls.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 5, 2020

Nazia Anadaleeb Preema’s solo exhibition and book unveiling takes place at Bangladesh National Museum in Dhaka.