The Cabinet approves in principle the draft of the Child Daycare Centre Bill 2020 to support children of working women as the number of nuclear families is increasing day by day.

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

A light tremor jolts Sylhet and its adjoining areas. The 4.1 magnitude earthquake was felt around 1:10pm.

An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skids off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing.

The Election Commission should carry out an investigation behind yesterday’s clash during the campaign of BNP’s DSCC mayor candidate Ishraque Hossain in Wari, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

Rapid Action Battalion says they held eight members of a gang that used to traffic women to different dance clubs and bars in countries in Middle East Asia.

A Dhaka court places five people on one-day remand each in connection with yesterday’s clash took place between activists of BNP and Awami League during an election campaigning in Wari area of Dhaka.

An SSC examinee was killed after a Wasa vehicle ran him over in the city’s Wari area this noon.

Tabith Awal, BNP-nominated candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral election, declares his manifesto -- giving priority to developing Dhaka as an “intelligent city”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given directives to bring back Bangladeshi nationals who are now in coronavirus-stricken China and want to return, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam says in a Facebook post.

Teen sensation Billie Eilish wins the first of the top four prizes at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, taking home the song of the year statuette for her hit single "Bad Guy."

The toll from China's viral epidemic spikes to 80 dead with hundreds of new infections despite unprecedented quarantines and travel lockdowns, as foreign governments scrambled to help their trapped citizens.

Four help desks will be set up at 700 police stations to expand the services delivered by the police emergency helpline 999, Inspector General of Police Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary says.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 26, 2020

A man slits the throat of his two-year-old in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila allegedly as his wife refused to give him money to buy drugs.

Top policymakers of BNP have told diplomats that there is no level-playing field ahead of the elections to the Dhaka north and south city corporations scheduled for February 1.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to prohibit the gender detection of fetuses in order to ensure the protection of the babies and pregnant mothers.

Visas of over 93,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt, South Korea and Iran have expired, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen informs the parliament.

Customs House Chattogram has seized two containers of cigarettes and chocolates which were falsely declared as either mushrooms or sweetcorn.

A man is killed and 20 injured in sporadic clashes between law enforcers and stone workers over stone extraction at Tetulia in Panchagarh.