US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R Miller says they hope that the elections to Dhaka city corporations will be credible, peaceful and festive.

Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar alleges that activities of executive magistrates deployed to monitor the violation of election code of conduct in Dhaka city polls are not visible.

Canadians who cannot afford regular meals are more likely to die early, according to a study, showing that people are dying from hunger even in wealthy countries.

Three people are arrested while trying to smuggle gold worth around Tk 6.60 crore into India through the bordering area of Benapole in Jashore, according to officials of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

The law enforcers have arrested a fugitive convict in an arms case after 27 years in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.

After refusing to cooperate with the Democratic Party-led impeachment probe in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump is set to offer his first comprehensive defense, before his trial begins in earnest in the Senate.

The High Court seeks a report on the “mismanagement” in traffic signal system in Dhaka.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 20, 2020

Seasoned politician Jagat Prakash Nadda is elected unopposed as the President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is set to be handed over the baton by his powerful predecessor and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah.

They were sentenced to death for firing on a procession with a truck carrying the then AL chief Sheikh Hasina in 1988 that killed 24 people.

Bangladeshi expats stage a demonstration in Canada’s Toronto, demanding punishment for those involved in laundering money from Bangladesh to the North American country.

Police cannot avoid responsibility if an accused dies by suicide in their custody, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam says.

Nearly 1 in 3 adolescent girls from the poorest households around the world has never been to school, according to a new Unicef paper.

China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner says as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.

Two members of Neo-JMB -- an ultra-radical offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) -- were arrested for their alleged involvement with the attacks on police at five places in Dhaka last year.

The High Court today granted four-week anticipatory bail to Prothom Alo Editor Matiur Rahman in a case filed over the death of Naimul Abrar Rahat, a student of Dhaka Residential Model College.

Ten members of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) are sentenced to death by a Dhaka court in a case filed over bomb blasts at a CPB rally in 2001.

A mysterious SARS-like virus has killed a third person and spread around China -- including to Beijing -- authorities say, fuelling fears of a major outbreak as millions begin travelling for the Lunar New Year in humanity's biggest migration.

The world's billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 percent of the global population, the charity Oxfam says.

Seven people drowned and three others are missing after a bridge collapsed on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the disaster agency says.