Inter-district bus services come to a halt as transport workers decided to keep their vehicles parked at Mohakhali bus terminal in Dhaka fearing harassment by their fellow workers who are protesting enforcement of the Road Transport Ac-2018.

The government will buy six lakh metric tonnes of paddy directly from farmers this Aman season, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak says.

Malaysian MPs who do not attend enough Dewan Rakyat sittings will get a talking to by the country's Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad himself.

The American Center at the US Embassy Dhaka announces the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (K-L YES) Programme for academic year 2020-21 for Bangladeshi students.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon all not to pay heed to propaganda, saying that ill efforts are being made to mislead the people through it (propaganda). Various kinds of propaganda regarding crisis of onion, salt, etc are publicised to confuse the people, she said.

The Daily Star go through to the semi-finals of the DRU Media Cricket tournament after defeating Channel-24 by 15 runs.

Commuters in different parts of the country have been facing immense sufferings for the fourth consecutive day following the work abstention being observed by a section of transport owners and workers demanding amendments to the new Road Transport Act-2018.

Transportation of goods and containers to and from Chattogram port resumes after truckers and covered-van drivers called off their strike following a meeting with the home minister.

Htoo Maung sits down to lunch, sharing a bowl of traditional noodle soup with old friends, an ordinary act that has become extraordinary in Myanmar's Rakhine state -- because he is Muslim, and they are Buddhist.

Amnesty International issues a scathing indictment of the world’s dominant internet corporations, arguing in a new report that Google and Facebook should be forced to abandon what it calls their surveillance-based business model because it is “predicated on human rights abuse.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has paid rich tributes to the martyred members of the Armed Forces by placing wreath at ‘Shikha Anirban’ in Dhaka Cantonment on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day 2019.

Emerging and developing economies are less well positioned to withstand a deeper global downturn, should it occur, than they were before the 2009 global recession, the World Bank says.

The owners and workers of truck and covered-van have withdrawn their indefinite work abstention across the country following the assurance by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan to fulfill their some demands.

Hello dear readers! How was your day? Here are the news headlines on November 20, 2019

A delegation of six professionals of Bangladesh participates in the ‘Facebook South Asia Safety Summit-2019’ in New Delhi.

The week-long tax fair ends amid huge participation of taxpayers enabling the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to log a record Tk 2613 crore taxes.

The High Court stays the trial proceedings against actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, for allegedly spreading rumours on social media during last year’s student protests for safe roads.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) issues a public notice and asked all the corporate mobile connection users to update their accounts by November 30.

An air cargo carrying first consignment of onions from Karachi reaches Dhaka in a bid to pull reins of the onion price.

A parliamentary body forms a sub-committee to investigate the alleged widespread corruption and irregularities in purchasing medical and other equipment in Faridpur Medical College Hospital.