Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on January 10, 2020

Stating that there is no room for autocracy in independent Bangladesh, Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Kamal Hossain says people must take risk for protecting democracy.

Body of an engineer, who went missing in Buriganga river after falling from a trawler in an accident in Narayanganj’s Fatullah upazila on January 6, is recovered by police.

The ruling Awami League-backed four councillor candidates, including two for reserved women seats, have already been elected unopposed in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections scheduled for January 30.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s home-coming day is celebrated at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, capital of India, with diplomats and other staff paying rich tributes to the Father of the Nation of Bangladesh.

A Habiganj court sends a youth to jail after he was produced before it in a case filed over gang-rape of a college student in the district’s Chunarughat upazila.

A bus is dragged a ten-year-old girl and crushed her under its wheels near Bijoy Smarani area of Dhaka.

BNP nominated mayoral candidates for Dhaka North and South city corporations kick off their election campaign after receiving their election symbol "Sheaf of Paddy" ahead of the elections slated for January 30.

Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, condemns the US-Iranian military confrontation taking place on Iraqi soil, saying it risked plunging the war-ravaged country and the wider Middle East into deeper conflict.

The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) conducts a drive and knocks down 11 illegally built jetties beside two rail bridges and a highway bridge over the Meghna at Ashuganj in Brahmanbaria.

The countdown to the birth centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman begins through a gala opening ceremony.

Mikha Piregu and Rakibul Rony have been made president and general secretary respectively of Bangladesh Chhatra Union’s Jahangirnagar University unit.

The World Bank has projected 7.2 percent GDP growth for Bangladesh in the 2019-20 current fiscal year while 7.3 percent in the following fiscal year.

Police recover the body of a college girl from a paddy field in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira.

An air strike in eastern Syria killed eight fighters of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force overnight, a war monitor says.

Fire breaks out at a readymade garment factory in Konabari area of Gazipur city.

Iran's civil aviation chief denies that a missile downed a Ukrainian airliner which crashed killing all 176 on board, dismissing claims of a catastrophic mistake by Tehran's air defences.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on January 10, 2020

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says communalism is the main impediment to building a Sonar Bangla dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while BNP is a patron of communalism.

Awami League lawmaker and former state minister Md Mozammel Hossain passed away at a hospital in Dhaka early today.