Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is not aimed at taking away anyone’s citizenship but giving citizenship and accused the opposition parties of spreading misinformation about the new law.

US President Donald Trump says the United States was monitoring Iranian demonstrations closely, warning against any new "massacre" as protests broke out after Tehran admitted to shooting down a passenger plane.

Britain’s Foreign Office confirms that the country’s ambassador in Tehran was briefly detained by Iranian authorities, denouncing the arrest as a “flagrant violation of international law”.

Hear ye, hear ye: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hitting the send button on President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

Rapid Action Battalion says a suspected drug peddler was killed in a gunfight in front of the counter in Shohagh Paribahan in Dhaka’s Malibagh Railgate area.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 11, 2020

Customs officials seize 4.6kg gold bars at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Some 600 differently-abled persons attends the sixth edition of ‘Person with Disabilities Job Fair-2020’ where 45 of them gets instant appointments in different ICT companies.

Police has arrested a mess manager on charge of raping two female borders in the city’s Rampura area recently.

Raising alarm at the growing incidents of rape in the country, Jatiya Oikyafront leader Kamal Hossain urges people to forge a movement to ensure people’s security and to establish the rule of law.

Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam cancels his visit to India to speak at Raisina Dialouge which is scheduled to begin in New Delhi on January 14.

Ukraine International Airlines says that its plane that crashed in Iran had received no warning from Tehran airport about a possible threat to its safety before it took off en route for Kiev.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urges Prime Minister Narendra Modi to rethink his government’s decision over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens.

Five more devotees die due to their physical illness at the Biswa Ijtema venue in Tongi of Gazipur.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says BNP does not want Digital Bangladesh as they cannot tolerate the country’s development.

North Korea receives birthday greetings to its leader Kim Jong Un from US President Donald Trump, but their personal relationship is not enough for a return to talks, according to a statement published by state news agency KCNA.

Herewith are some of the remarks made by top leaders in response to the Iranian statement on its responsibility for the crash.

At least 7,855 people are killed and 13,330 others injured in 5,516 road accidents across the country in 2019, Jatri Kalyan Samity says in its annual report.

The aerospace commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards accepts full responsibility for the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet that killed all 176 people on board.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to hold a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after Tehran said it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, the Ukrainian president’s office says.