President Abdul Hamid urges the Vice-Chancellors of public universities to perform their duties with dedication and honesty and stay away from corruption and irregularities.

Dhamrai police arrests a bus driver of a ceramic factory in Dhaka’s Dhamrai area on charge of killing a worker of the same factory after she resisted an alleged rape attempt by him.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested the main accused of the case filed for gang-rape of a 13-year-old girl in Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka.

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

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda has said that members of parliament cannot seek votes for candidates in the upcoming elections to Dhaka North and South City Corporations.

Police have arrested two people in connection with mercilessly beating three youths for ‘stealing goats’ in presence of a member of the local union parishad in Fatullah of Narayanganj.

The foggy weather that stated this morning is likely to continue for two or three more days across the country, says Met office.

President Volodymyr Zelensky demands that Iran punish those responsible for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner and pay compensation.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police have arrested a couple for allegedly faking savings certificate worth Tk 9 crore in Khulna city on Tuesday.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says closure and accountability were needed after Iran said it had unintentionally shot down a Ukranian plane, killing 176 people.

The national Vitamin 'A' plus campaign is underway across the country, aiming to feed vitamin A plus capsules to 2.10 crore children aged between six to 59 months.

A member of United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF) is shot dead in Panchhari upazila of Khagrachhari.

The United States piled new sanctions on Iran's already crippled economy Friday and defended the killing of a top Iranian leader, saying he had been planning an "imminent" attack on US embassies.

Ten Bangladeshi nationals among 13 people were injured when a car carrying migrants who had crossed into Greece from neighboring Turkey crashed into another vehicle following a high-speed chase across the north of the country early Friday, police in Greece say.

Russia denied on Friday that one of its navy vessels had come dangerously close to a US Navy destroyer in the North Arabian Sea the previous day, Russian news agencies cited a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defence as saying.

Iran "deeply regrets" the accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner earlier this week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says in a tweet.

The United States carried out a secret operation in Yemen that targeted, but failed to kill, an Iranian military official last week, two US officials told Reuters on Friday.

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic ties between adversaries Iran and the US, has died. He was 79.

Iran says it unintentionally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane killing 176 people on board due to human error, after initially denying it brought down the plane in the tense aftermath of Iranian missile strikes on US targets in Iraq.

A 11-year-old girl is gang-raped allegedly by four youths in Dhaka’s Bhatara area.