Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in, after officers warned they may use live rounds if confronted by deadly weapons.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will reopen its labour market to Bangladeshi workers as it was closed several years ago. Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan yesterday gave the hint to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting on the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow at the Dubai World Central (DWC).

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in writes about Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Korea following a three-day long “2019 ASEAN-Korea Commemorative Summit” which will be held in Busan of Korea next week.

At least 50 shops are gutted into ashes in a devastating fire that breaks out at Railway Station Market in Choumohoni area of Noakhali.

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CNG-run auto-rickshaw workers threaten to go for a 48-hour strike from November 28 to press home their nine-point demands including registration of 5,000 auto-rickshaws in Dhaka and 4,000 in Chattogram cities.

Pranta Adhikari, a fifth semester student of Rangpur Polytechnic Institute, has made an example of honesty by giving back Tk 3 lakh to its owner.

One of the three committees formed to investigate the blast in Chattogram city does not find any sign of gas pipeline explosion in their investigation.

The explosion that killed seven people at a building in Chattogram city takes place when an inmate was lighting candle by match at a room on the ground floor.

Former textiles and jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique gets released from jail after the Supreme Court upheld his bail in a corruption case.

The Supreme Court in the full text of its verdict in a case over the retirement age of freedom fighters has ruled that the retirement age of freedom fighters, who have been serving in public service, is 60 years as per the relevant law.

The Supreme Court fixes November 25 for hearing an appeal filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the High Court order that rejected her bail petition in Zia Charitable Trust graft case in which she was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a lower court.

Jatiya Oikyafront seeks permission of prison authorities to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia now undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheik Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka.

Boeing and Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Biman) announce that the national carrier is expanding its 787 Dreamliner fleet with two additional airplanes valued at $585 million at list prices.

Five students of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj are expelled for attacking protesters who staged demonstration demanding removal of the university vice chancellor on September 21.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority is going to start operation of its mobile court to implement the much-talked about Road Transport Act-2018, as necessary legal complications are over now.

Verdict in Holey Artisan Cafe attack case will be delivered by a Dhaka court on November 27 as arguments conclude.

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The West Bengal government has said two detention centres will be set up there soon for foreign nationals arrested on various criminal charges but sought to make it clear that these centres will have "absolutely no connection" with the National Register of Citizens (NRC).

Two suspected Rohingya criminals have been killed in a “gunfight” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Naikhyangchhari upazila of Bandarban.