Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader hopes that the Election Commission (EC) will reach an acceptable solution over Dhaka city polls showing respect to religion.

Some 109 more Bangladeshi workers were deported from Saudi Arabia last night.

Two people are killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram highway in Patiya upazila of Chattogram.

A garment workers' organisation stages a demonstration in Dhaka demanding exemplary punishment for the culprits who allegedly raped one of their fellows in Ashulia.

Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof M Akhtaruzzman expresses solidarity with the students who went on hunger strike demanding deferral of the election schedule for Dhaka city corporation elections.

India's latest "high-power" communication satellite GSAT-30, aimed at providing high-quality television, telecommunications and broadcasting services, is successfully launched from French Guiana, the Indian Department of Space says.

The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opens in the US Senate, as lawmakers take a solemn oath to be "impartial" in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office.

Two people have been killed as a bus hit them in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he wants to avoid war after Tehran and Washington appeared on the brink of direct military confrontation in early January for the second time in less than a year.

At least 11 American troops were injured in an Iranian attack on an Iraqi base where American soldiers were deployed, US Central Command says, although the US military had previously maintained there were no casualties.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 16, 2020

Jatiya Oikyafront convener Kamal Hossain today says holding polls to two Dhaka City corporations on the day of Saraswati Puja is an unjust act.

Admitting that the people suffered a lot due to skyrocketing prices of onion, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque in parliament has assured that such problem will not be there in the next year.

“I made a mistake by not killing her,” rape accused Majnu confesses to a magistrate. In his statement, Majnu also confesses that he alone raped the young woman, a student of Dhaka University, in the capital’s Kurmitola area.

The High Court advises Green Line Paribahan and Russel Sarker, who lost his leg after a bus of the company ran him over in April 2018, to settle the issue outside the court by providing compensation to Russel.

The two-day English Olympiad Grand Finale 2020 was held at United International University (UIU) campus in the capital on January 9-10.

"Going [to] BD after 24 years", read the Facebook status of Bangladeshi expatriate living in the US Ruhul Amin. However, before he could reach his home in Sylhet's Beanibazar, he died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday night. The accident also injured four more members of the family.

Tabith Awal, BNP’s mayoral candidate for the Dhaka North City Corporation election, says people were not ready to cast their votes using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) in the election scheduled for January 30.

Several MPs in parliament come down heavily on Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque saying the minister cannot avoid responsibility for publishing the faulty list of Razakers.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man with 820 grammes of cocaine worth around Tk 15 crore in Chattogram early today.