Expressing concern over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India’s Assam, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says NRC is a threat to Bangladesh's independence and sovereignty.

Washington and London issue travel warnings for northeast India as opponents of a new citizenship law geared up for more protests Saturday, following days of clashes that saw two people killed and dozens injured.

Tireless teenage activist Greta Thunberg has been crisscrossing the globe by car, train and boat - but not plane - to demand action on climate change. But now even she needs a rest.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says that legal action should be taken against ‘Daily Sangram’ for describing executed war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Molla as "martyr".

Bangladesh should keep close watch on the Rohingya repatriation process, Munshi Faiz, former ambassador and former head of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) has said.

Workers of nine state-run jute mills in Khulna industrial belt postpone their indefinite hunger strike for three days following a meeting with State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Munnujan Sufian last night.

Schools and colleges were closed, markets were shut and vehicles remained largely off roads in parts of Nagaland in India today amid a six-hour flash general strike called by the Naga Students' Federation (NSF), protesting against the amended Citizenship Act, officials say.

Another victim, who was severely burnt in Wednesday’s factory fire in Keraniganj, dies at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka, raising the death toll to 14.

Martyred Intellectuals Day is being observed to commemorate the intellectuals killed by Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators just before the end of the Liberation War.

‘The Beetles,’ a team of students from Dhaka University's Institute of Business Administration (IBA) have clinched the title of championship in the 16th edition of ‘Battle of Minds-19'.

Customs officials claim to have detained two persons with around 4kg of gold worth Tk 2 crore in separate drives at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been ranked the 29th among the 100 most powerful women in the world by the US-based Forbes magazine.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on December 13, 2019

Rapid Action Battalion arrest four people and recovered around 8.10 lakh Yaba pills form their possessions in Rangikhali area of Teknaf.

Rapid Action Battalion arrest Abul Kashem alias Hashu, the alleged ‘ringleader’ of the Hashu-Kashu Bahini, an organised criminal gang at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar of Dhaka.

Runa Laila, our nightingale, has been enchanting audiences around the world with her mind blowing performances for the last 50 years.

Detectives claim to have detained two members of a fraud group from Gulistan area of Dhaka.

The United Nations human rights office voices concern that India’s new citizenship law is “fundamentally discriminatory in nature” by excluding Muslims and called for it to be reviewed.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe postpones his India trip amid ongoing violent protest in northeastern state of Assam over the much-talked-about Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party secures a majority in a landslide election victory, results showed on Friday.