The cabinet approves a draft policy for disposing of radioactive waste in light of the new nuclear power plant that is being built in the country.

Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences say.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on October 14, 2019

This is a story of a landless 63-years-old teacher Lokman Ali. In a remote corner of the country, on the bank of Teesta, he is spreading the light of education among children.

A total of 6,90,550 mobile phone users have successfully switched their operators without changing their existing 11 digits number using mobile number portability (MNP) service in the first one year of its launch, according to a BTRC report.

A five-year-old boy is brutally killed in Sunamganj’s Derai upazila.

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has expelled its Buet unit leader Amit Saha for his involvement in the murder of second-year student Abrar Fahad.

Dhaka Ridesharing Drivers Union has called a 24-hour work abstention starting from 12 midnight with a demand of reduction in the commission they pay to Uber.

A flight of Singapore-bound Biman Bangladesh Airlines has made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Voting is going on in two upazila elections -- Satkania Upazila in Chattogram and Kotchandpur upazila in Jhenidah -- and in one municipality poll in Nabinagar pourasava in Brahmanbaria district.

A graphically violent parody video, shown at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s supporters at his Miami resort, depicted a likeness of the president shooting and stabbing his opponents and members of the news media in a church, The New York Times reports.

Tens of thousands of rescuers work into the night to find survivors of a powerful typhoon in Japan that killed at least 56 people, as fresh rain threatened to hamper their efforts.

The first-year admission test for the academic session 2019-20 of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) begins amid tight security.

The recent IED attacks targeting police at Gulistan and Science lab were carried out by a gang of New JMB in order to draw attention of Islamic State, police say.

An alleged extortionist is killed in a reported gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Agrabad area of Chattogram city.

Police claim to have detained 13 members of the Jamaat-e-Islami's female student front Islami Chhatri Sangstha in Sadar upazila of Pabna tonight.

The Committee for the Protection of Fundamental Rights terms the killing of Buet student Abrar Fahad as a cruel attack on the freedom of speech and says the government and the university administration cannot avoid their responsibilities.

Hello dear readers! How are you doing today? Here are the news headlines so far on October 13, 2019

The ruling Awami League announces the date for council of its associate bodies including Jubo League.

A woman is killed and her son injured after a pick-up van hit their rickshaw in Sadarghat area of Dhaka.