Head-on collision between a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a truck kills two people including an engineer and injures five on Mymensingh-Tangail highway under Muktagacha municipality in Mymensingh.

The Supreme Court today upheld its earlier order that cleared the way for the government to publish the gazette notification for implementing the recommendation of 9th Wage Board for journalists.

Bangladeshi students who are stuck in a lockdown at ‘Ground Zero’ of the Coronavirus outbreak in China are finally at ease after authorities from Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing and their university have assured them of assistance.

Atiqul Islam, the Awami League-backed mayoral aspirant for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) election, declares his 38-point manifesto. The highlight of the manifesto includes addressing air pollution in the city -- a hot button issue -- by running an electric bus service.

A labour court in Dhaka grants bail to Nobel laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus in a case filed over violating labour laws.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opens a number of development projects, including two water treatment plants -- Sheikh Russel Water Treatment Plant in Chattogram and Bangabandhu Water Treatment Plant in Khulna.

Canada's first "presumptive" case of a new coronavirus has been detected in a man who returned to Toronto from the Chinese city where the virus first appeared, health officials announce.

A suspected robber has been killed in a “gunfight” with members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram.

Investigators have confirmed the involvement of 30yr old Majnu in the rape case of a Dhaka University student following the result of a DNA test.

Donald Trump demanded the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine and a key figure in the president's impeachment trial, according to a video recording released to US media.

The death toll from a virus in China has risen to 56 and the number of people infected across the country is nearing 2,000, authorities say. Fifteen more people have died and at least 688 new cases of the coronavirus have now been confirmed.

A woman in England is reunited with her long-lost father after 56 years when he was “suggested” as a friend on Facebook.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 25, 2020

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Mazumder says the government will not take responsibility for anyone who dies at the border while trespassing into India to smuggle cattle.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says that the number of road accidents would reduce once a greater number of woman drivers hit the roads.

A newly organised vaccine research group at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is likely to be testing the first of a number of potential experimental vaccines against the new SARS-like coronavirus that is spreading in China and beyond.

BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed alleges that a one-party “Baksal-like” rule is now on in the country, in the disguise of democracy.

A 26-year-old man shot his parents and four other members of his family dead with a semi-automatic weapon in southwest Germany before calling the police and waiting for them to arrest him, authorities say.

The United States is arranging a charter flight tomorrow to bring its citizens and diplomats back from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the outbreak of a new coronavirus, the Wall Stree Journal reports.

With five days remaining for electioneering, mayoral contestants of Awami League and BNP are in a frantic mood to reach the maxmimum numbers of voters and woo them.