Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on December 5, 2019

Biman will operate 16 additional flights on Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route to bring back several thousand Bangladeshi migrant workers by December 31, the deadline of “Back-for-Good” amnesty programme.

Police have not been able to seize the cap with IS logo on it eight days after a death row convict first wore it after the verdict in Holey Artisan attack case .

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain terms the chaos at courtroom by the pro-BNP Lawyers “unprecedented”. “Everything has a limit…. I have not seen such a situation in the courtroom," the chief justice said.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says support and services centre will be set up in every upazila across the country for the specially-abled people.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has pressed the need to bring down bank loan interest rate to single digit in order to boost businesses.

A woman, who had survived a brutal gangrape earlier in March, is set ablaze by five men accused in the case in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district in India.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) authorities have suspended eight students from the university for different terms for their involvement in previous incidents of ragging at the university’s Titumir Hall.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) wants transparency and accountability of the United Nations in management of the humanitarian crisis of Rohingyas.

Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) Vice President Nurul Haque Nur alleges that a portion of an audio clip containing his conversation has been circulated with ill intention.

Commuters have been suffering immensely on Dhaka-Aricha highway as police set up check posts at several points including Aminbazar and Gabtoli, causing huge jam on the highway.

Xiaomi Corp has launched a personal loan service in India aimed at young professionals and millennials, as the Chinese smartphone vendor looks to consolidate its presence in the country's fast-growing internet finance market.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam urges the chief justice to take action against the pro-BNP lawyers who made chaos in the courtroom forcing the Appellate Division judges to leave the room.

A team of Department of Environment (DoE) demolishes one illegal brick kiln and detained its staff in a drive in Savar.

A group of pro-BNP lawyers shout and make chaos in a courtroom during the hearing of the party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail appeal in a corruption case, forcing all the six judges of the Appellate Division including the chief justice to leave the courtroom.

Two suspected criminals are killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of 'criminals' at Baralia Bakultala in Laxmipur Sadar upazila.

NATO leaders set aside public insults ranging from "delinquent" to "brain dead" and "two-faced", declaring at a 70th anniversary summit they would stand together against a common threat from Russia and prepare for China's rise.

The China-led Belt and Road Initiative doesn’t support free and open Indo-Pacific region or ensure the protection of the nations’ sovereignty and international law, a top US defense official says.

Muktijuddho Moncho, a platform comprising descendants of freedom fighters, has been padlocked Ducsu Vice President Nurul Haque Nur’s office, issuing 48-hour ultimatum to stepdown from his post.

Saudi government has increased quotas for Bangladesh from 1,27,000 to 1,37,000 for the next year’s hajj.