Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) detains three cleaners of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka with 20 gold bars weighing 2.32 kilogrammes.

Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani will be laid to rest Tuesday in his hometown of Kerman as part of three days of ceremonies across the country, the Revolutionary Guards says.

A key Indian minister has said the government's next move would be relating the deportation of Rohingya refugees in Jammu and Kashmir as they would not be able to secure citizenship under the amended Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

The number of road crashes and deaths saw a “alarming rise” last year compared to the previous year. At least 5,227 people were killed while 6,953 injured in 4,702 road accidents in 2019, Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa) said.

Tensions between Iran and the United States are at their highest point since Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State has said it did not conduct any air strikes near Camp Taji north of Baghdad.

Bangladesh embassy in Iraq has advised Bangladeshi nationals to avoid travelling to troublesome areas in the country considering the ongoing insecurity and unsettling situation.

Iraqi factions threatening to oust US troops, officials denouncing American "violations" and fears of a new Gulf war: a US strike has catapulted Iraq back to the tumultuous aftermath of the 2003 invasion.

President Donald Trump says he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general “to stop a war,” not start one, but in the tense aftermath the Pentagon braces for retaliation by sending more troops to the Middle East.

Up to 3,000 military reservists have been called up to tackle Australia's relentless bushfire crisis on Saturday, as tens of thousands of residents fled their homes amid catastrophic conditions.

Dense fog disrupts smooth ferry operations on the key Patutia-Daulatdia route for four hours.

A fresh air strike hits pro-Iran fighters in Iraq, as fears grow of a proxy war erupting between Washington and Tehran a day after an American drone strike killed a top Iranian general.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on January 03, 2020

A US air strike in Baghdad that kills a top Iranian commander aimed to disrupt an "imminent attack" that would have endangered Americans in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says in television interviews.

Union Home Minister of India Amit Shah says the government will not budge an inch on its decision to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) despite the opposition parties’ criticism of the law..

Plastic was invented to make daily life easy. But over the time it has become a big threat to human and environment. BD Clean, a youth organisation, is working on cleaning plastic wastes in different cities of the country and making people aware about it.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam says that the participation of youths’ in the act of terrorism cannot be stopped by imposing fines, sending them to jails or by executing them unless their brains are cleaned.

A Dhaka court sends a police official to jail after he was arrested and produced before the court in connection with a rape case.

A special entertainment-based magazine programme “Milechhi Melbodhone” will go on air on state-run Bangladesh Television (BTV) tomorrow, marking the police week 2020.

Bangladesh’s economy will surpass that of Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore with its presence as the 30th largest economy in the world by 2024, says a global report released by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr).