Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the apathy of voters during the recently held Dhaka city elections is not good for democracy.

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A section of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Jahangirnagar University is demonstrating on campus, demanding a new BCL committee.

Two people are killed and seven others injured as a bus plunges into a roadside ditch in Tanore upazila of Rajshahi.

The newly elected councillor of ward-23 under Dhaka North City Corporation was sent to jail, hours after police arrested him on the charge of physically assaulting two police officers.

The High Court has wanted to know whether the public and private universities are conferring PhD and equivalent degrees to the students following rules and regulations of the University Grants Commission.

Myanmar has reimposed an internet shutdown in two conflict-torn western states, after partially lifting the blackout five months ago, says a leading telecoms operator.

A lecture on the usage of visuals in citizen journalism by internationally acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam kicks off at Rajshahi University (RU).

Bangladesh has advised all airlines that fly between the country and China to make health clearance mandatory from the government health administration of the latter while carrying passengers from China with valid visa.

A Rohingya man, identified as a robber by law enforcers, has been killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Cox’s Bazar.

Japanese officials begin screening more than 3,700 passengers and crew on a cruise ship quarantined off the port of Yokohama near Tokyo after a Hong Kong man who sailed on the vessel last month tested positive for coronavirus.

Hong Kong reports its first coronavirus death, a 39-year-old male who had been suffering from an underlying illness and had visited China's Wuhan city in January, hospital staff says, marking the second death outside mainland China.

Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announces her engagement to the head of a consulting firm.

Iowa Democrats met at caucus sites around the state to kick off what could be a bruising months-long national presidential nominating fight, but the results are delayed and still unreported more than three hours after the process began.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Rome on a four-day bilateral visit to hold talks with her Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte.

China's top leadership has admitted "shortcomings and difficulties" in its response to the coronavirus outbreak, as state media said a new hospital built at breakneck pace began receiving patients in the epicentre of the crisis.

Fourteen students are reportedly killed in a stampede as they rushed down a staircase at a primary school in western Kenya.

A police constable reportedly shoots himself in the chest on the roof of the Bishwanath Police Station barracks in Sylhet.

Four Bangladeshis are killed when a bus rams into their bicycles on a road in Oman.

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