Bangladesh maintains a “zero tolerance” policy towards terrorism and violent extremism, says Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Rabab Fatima, at the UN Headquarters.

Some $3.1 billion or TK 26.4 thousand crore is being illegally remitted from Bangladesh a year, says a report of Transparency International Bangladesh.

The elections failed badly due to EVMs (electronic voting machines), the paddy sheaf symbol was not even included in many of the machines, Ishraque Hossain alleges.

Seven teachers have been discharged from their ongoing SSC examination duties on allegations of distributing wrong question papers among examinees at a centre in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Bangladesh Railway is increasing the number of train trips to neighbouring India from this month onward, according to the railways minister.

Rapid Action Battalion claimed a robber was killed in a gunfight with the elite force members near Beribadh area under Turag Police Station in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh has attained an ability to advance further by competing any nation of the world and asserted that none can pull the country backward any more.

A bitter feud between US President Donald Trump and top Democrat Nancy Pelosi boiled over at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, with Trump snubbing her outstretched hand and Pelosi ripping apart a copy of his remarks behind his back.

The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China has passed 490 as two US airlines suspended flights to Hong Kong following the first fatality there and 10 cases were confirmed on a quarantined Japanese cruise ship.

The US Department of Health and Human Services says it is partnering with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc to develop a treatment for the coronavirus, making the drugmaker the latest to join the race to develop a therapy.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on February 4, 2020

The BNP to hold a rally in Dhaka city and stage demonstrations across the country on Saturday marking two years of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s imprisonment.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid today in parliament termed the election commissioners worthless and demanded their resignation for their “failure in arranging fair elections”.

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A police official was closed yesterday for letting a rape-accused walk free and for refusing to file a complaint from the victim’s family in Rangpur’s Kaunia upazila.

The Supreme Court clears the way for the government to recover the land of Turag river from illegal possession of Nishut Jute Mills Ltd of Hameem Group, and Hossain Dyeing and Printing Mills Ltd of Anwar Group.

The lack of representation of opposition parties at voting centres has made the election questionable, Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder opine while talking to journalists on the recently concluded Dhaka city polls.

Journalists strongly condemn the attacks on media persons covering the city polls and demand the immediate arrest of the perpetrators.

China has agreed to allow US health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization (WHO) effort to help fight the fast-spreading coronavirus, as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount.

The International Criminal Court has officially launched an investigation into Myanmar. The intergovernmental organisation and international tribunal that sits in The Hague today said they will be investigating the crime of deportation which also includes crimes against humanity.