In the southern city of Basra, security forces raided the main anti-government sit-in overnight and deployed in force to stop protesters gathering there again. Police arrested at least 16 protesters in Basra, according to security sources.

The residence of two death row convicts of the Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master murder case is ransacked and torched in Gazipur’s Tongi upazila.

Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan) has said they found the increasing participation of businessmen in local government elections alarming.

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

Banga Building Materials Limited organises a conference of its dealers at Kaliganj in Gazipur.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has declared a virus emergency in the Asian financial hub, announcing a package of measures to limit the city's links with mainland China.

Two women, one pregnant, have been killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN's highest court ordered the country to protect the minority community.

Norway says that it expects Myanmar to fully implement the provisional measures ordered by International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The Chinese army deploys medical specialists to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown.

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) warmly welcomes the newly enrolled undergraduate students of Spring 2020 semester through an orientation ceremony held on January 18, 2019 at IUB campus in Bashundhara, Dhaka.

Bangladeshi students in Wuhan city of China, the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed 41 lives so far, are under a lockdown in their respective dorms and residences for the last two days.

Three of a family are killed and two others injured as a bus ploughs through pedestrians after ramming into an auto-rickshaw in Amtoli upazila of Barguna.

Images of viral outbreaks are often accompanied by throngs of people wearing surgical masks in public places, and they’ve become the first line of defence in such situations. However, their effectiveness at controlling the spread of viruses have been called into question by experts.

Police claim to have arrested two operatives of militant group “Neo JMB” who were allegedly involved in last year’s bomb attacks on a Krishak League office and police’s motorcycle garage in Khulna.

No case of novel coronavirus (nCoV) has been detected in India, claims the county’s health ministry.

Cases of Coronavirus have been detected in Australia, Malaysia and Nepal as the virus has already claimed 41 lives in China.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reaches 22, as rescuers search for an estimated 22 more people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

A woman who was severely burned in the fire at Chalantika slum at Mirpur yesterday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) this morning.

The official death toll from the coronavirus in China jumps on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier, as local media reported a doctor on the frontline of the battle to contain the virus in Wuhan city had died.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on January 24, 2020