Buet student Abrar Fahad murder case has been transferred to Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judges’ Court from Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for its trial.

Exhausted firefighters has said they had finally brought Australia's largest "megablaze" under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires.

Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport are disrupted for around six hours due to dense fog.

Voting in the by-elections to Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgaon) constituency is progressing peacefully.

Two suspected drug peddlers are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Dinajpur Sadar upazila.

Three suspected cow lifters are beaten to death by an angry mob in Jashore’s Abhaynagar upazila.

Mother and her six-year-old child are killed and seven injured as a launch collided with another in Meghna river in Barishal.

Iran signals it favours a de-escalation after 10 days of heightened tensions with the United States during which both sides fired missiles and Tehran accidentally shot down a passenger aircraft.

A small volcano near the Philippine capital that draws tourists for its picturesque setting in a lake erupted with a massive plume of ash and steam, prompting the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and forcing Manila’s international airport to shut down.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 12, 2020

Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Parishad urges the Election Commission to hold elections to the Dhaka North and South city corporations on another date instead of January 30 as the Saraswati Puja will be observed on that day by the Hindu community across the country.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad calls upon people to exercise their franchise against corrupts, black money owners, women repressors and muscle power in the Dhaka north and south city corporation elections.

Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim says the upcoming elections to the Dhaka North and South city corporations will be held in a fair and neutral manner, and the state will accept the wining candidates as representatives and help them in discharging duties.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon, who failed to secure nomination for the next mayoral race from Awami League, is elected executive member of central working committee, the highest decision-making body of the party.

Bringing allegation of obstructing electioneering, BNP-backed mayoral candidate Ishraque Hossain of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections calls upon the Election Commission to ensure level playing field for all candidates.

The High Court stays for four weeks the effectiveness of a circular issued by the BASIC Bank authorities on reducing the salary structure of its employees.

Symphony Mobile has welcomed 2020 by launching two new smartphone models, the Z25 and the Z12.

Anti-Corruption Commission approves charges against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and ACC Director Khandaker Enamul Basir in connection with a bribery case.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the party’s two ‘clean-imaged mayoral candidates’ Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Atiqul Islam are enough to conduct election campaign and face BNP candidates in the upcoming Dhaka city polls.

Queen Elizabeth II will host a showdown meeting with Prince Harry tomorrow in an attempt to solve the crisis triggered by his bombshell announcement that he and wife Meghan were stepping back from the royal frontline.