Three illegal brick kilns have been demolished in Aminbazar area, on the outskirts of the capital, for causing massive environmental pollution.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on December 18, 2019

The High Court has stayed the effectiveness of a gazette notification issued by Bangladesh Bar Council permitting Md Zumman Siddique, son of a High Court judge, to practice law in the High Court even though Zumman could not qualify the enrollment examination.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to publish a fresh list of Razakars immediately after scrutinizing the names and making necessary corrections.

The 19th span of the much-awaited Padma Bridge ha been installed.

India’s Supreme Court declines to stay implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) but agreed to examine its constitutional validity.

Hundreds of thousands of French protesters take to the streets in a pension reform standoff that has sparked nearly two weeks of crippling transport strikes, with the government vowing it will not give in to union demands to drop the overhaul.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to stop trespassing, smuggling of drugs and other goods, and human trafficking by performing their duties properly.

The High Court wants to know what steps the government have taken for rehabilitation of all street children across the country.

Another victim, who was severely injured in December 11’s factory fire in Keraniganj, dies at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka, raising the death toll to 20.

The High Court has ordered the authorities concerned to take re-examination by December 28 of the children who were expelled from ongoing Primary School Certificate (PSC) and its equivalent Ebtedayee terminal examinations.

The face-off between firebrand West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has escalated ever since the amended Citizenship Bill became a law last week.

A Tokyo court has awarded 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages to journalist Shiori Ito, who accused a former TV reporter of rape in one of the most high-profile cases of the #MeToo movement in Japan.

Prohibitory orders are issued in northeast Delhi, banning the gathering of large crowds as a preventive measure, after violent clashes erupted in the Seelampur region of east Delhi on Tuesday afternoon.

Two security guards of the 11-storey building at Banani where Chinese national Jianhui Gao was found buried has been arrested and said they killed him to loot his money.

The House of Representatives begin debate ahead of a historic vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump charging him with abusing his office and obstructing Congress that would make him the third US president to be impeached.

Bangladesh Chhatra League, the pro Awami League student body, relieves 32 leaders of its central executive committee.

Japan has committed to provide a grant of $85,247 to a Bangladeshi NGO -- National Development Programme (NDP) – for training people on loom in Sirajganj.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that the government has published the “Pakistan prepared list intending to exclude the genuine Razakar”.

The meeting of Joint Rivers Commission of Bangladesh with India over updating data on six common rivers scheduled for tomorrow is postponed.