BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government is hatching a plan to hinder the victories of his party-nominated candidates in the upcoming Dhaka north and south city corporation elections scheduled for February 1.

The UN Human Rights Office calls on Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally implement the top UN court's order in full, consistently with its obligations under the Charter and the Court's Statute.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the country’s uplift has become visible as her Awami League-led government continues to stay in state power.

Amnesty International releases a music video on the occasion of the International Day of Education to encourage people of Bangladesh and around the world to support education for Rohingya children and those of host communities in Bangladesh.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s sister Selima Islam expresses grave concerns over the deteriorating health of the former prime minister, saying that they would fail to take her home alive if the present situation continues.

Firefighters recover the bodies of two workers who had been reported missing on Thursday after they were crushed under a ship’s torn chain in a dockyard at Bandar upazila of Narayanganj.

Oil slips below $62 a barrel and is heading for a weekly decline as concern that a virus in China may spread, curbing travel and oil demand, overshadowed supply cuts.

A timber trader in Bogura is hacked to death allegedly by a local Jubo League leader.

Thousands of Iraqis rally at two central Baghdad intersections after a prominent cleric called for a “million strong” protest against the American military presence, following the US killing of an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia chief.

Two Indians, who returned from China, are kept under observation in the isolation ward of a hospital in Mumbai for possible exposure to coronavirus in the wake of an outbreak in China.

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has found and destroyed some poppy fields in a remote hilly area in Ruma upazila of Bandarban.

The UK government has welcomed the verdict of International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Myanmar and said the country must do more to protect the Rohingyas.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 24, 2020

Three alleged criminals are killed in separate reported incidents of “gunfights” with law enforcers in Cox’s Bazar, Magura and Natore districts.

Lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff calls dramatically for the Senate to remove President Donald Trump from office, saying the US leader cannot be trusted to put the country's interests ahead of his own.

The newly-elected Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Central Working Committee and Advisory Council led by party President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pays rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Schools in Singapore ask parents to declare overseas holiday plans as authorities screened travellers at air, land and sea checkpoints, to combat the spread of a deadly flu virus that has revived memories of the SARS pandemic in 2003.

A fire breaks out in a slum in Panchlaish area of Chattogram city.

Three people are killed and 18 others injured as a bus overturns in Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila.

Myanmar rejected accusations of “genocide” in a statement by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding yesterday’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling, the Mizzima reports.