China urges its citizens to postpone trips abroad as the country expands a massive effort to contain a viral outbreak that has killed more than 100 people nationwide.

Eight people were killed in a late night fire that swept through docked boats on a lake in the southern US state of Alabama, the local fire chief says.

The United States and other nations race to get their citizens out of the locked-down Chinese city at ground-zero of a virus epidemic, as the death toll surges to 106 and the number of confirmed infections doubled to over 4,500.

A student of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) files a case against 10 activists of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League including its president and secretary for allegedly physically assaulting him.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 27, 2020

A delegation of the ruling Awami League led by their Election Conducting Committee Co-Chairman HT Imam informs Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda that the people who resorted to arson attacks in previous elections are gathering in Dhaka to foil the city polls.

The government is considering abolishing the three streams -- science, humanities and business studies -- at the secondary level, Education Minister Dipu Moni informs the parliament.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda brushes aside all allegations of lack of level-playing field ahead of the Dhaka city corporation elections.

Indian government decides to prepare for possible evacuation of its nationals in Wuhan, the central Chinese province which is the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Three ninth graders have allegedly been held hostage and raped in Ghatail upazila of Tangail.

The High Court rejects two separate petitions seeking bail of Rashedul Haque Chisty, son of Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee, in two corruption cases filed on charges of misappropriating and laundering Tk 230 crore of the bank funds.

Starting from 12:01am on February 1, vehicular movement will be restricted till 6pm that day for Dhaka City Corporation elections.

Countries are supposed to make a ‘tentative list’ of sites eligible to be a Unesco World Heritage Site every year, but Bangladesh has not done so in 20 years.

A locally improvised vehicle driver is killed as his vehicle overturned after police chased it in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

West Bengal legislative assembly passes a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), becoming the fourth Indian state to do so.

A BNP delegation meets Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda and alleged of having no level-playing field ahead of the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for February 1.

Indian immigration at Agartala checkpost allegedly refused entry to a Bangladeshi national, owing to his travel to China around two months back.

The Taliban claims a US forces aircraft has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, hours after a plane went down into an area controlled largely by the insurgents.

The High Court summarily rejects a writ petition seeking cancellation of BNP’s mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation Tabith Awal’s candidacy.

The Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) Centre of the University of Dhaka is inviting applications from students, faculty and alumni for “Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) 2020”.