The “Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Bill, 2016” is passed in the parliament, paving the way for Bangladesh to join the AIIB as a founding member.

The High Court yesterday ruled that the government would have to compensate the family of Jihad, a four-year-old who died falling down a 300-foot well shaft in the capital's Shahjahanpur in 2014.

BNP seeks Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha’s interference for immediate release of Mahmudur Rahman, acting editor of Bangla daily Amar Desh.

Cabinet gives final approval to the draft of the ‘The Bangladesh EPZ Labour Law, 2016’ keeping a provision for constituting labour organisations in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) as well as forming a permanent wage board for their workers.

The High Court directs authorities concerned to submit reports in three months on the steps taken for waste management in Dhaka north and south city corporation areas.

The Syrian government has carried out a state policy of extermination against thousands of detainees, UN human rights investigators say.

The BNP yesterday accused the government of indulging in fascism.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says the party’s national council would be held by March to strengthen its organisational activities across the country.

The High Court orders the government to immediately shut down illegal stone-crushing machines at five upazilas in Sylhet.

President Abdul Hamid says he firmly believes that the government will maintain peace, discipline and stability in the state and society overcoming all challenges.

The ninth session of the 10th parliament will continue till February 29, according to a decision made by the business advisory committee of the national parliament.

The government has served legal notices to the owners of 28 tanneries who are yet to start work to relocate their factories from Hazaribagh in the capital to the designated industrial park in Savar.

In a latest reshuffle in the civil administration, the government transfers seven secretaries to new ministries and divisions.

The ICC announced that it has invited Ireland, as the runner-up in the qualifying event in Kuala Lampur in October, to replace Australia in the U-19 World Cup in Bangladesh after the Aussies withdrew today.

Six people are killed and dozens injured when a strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes northeast India, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets even hundreds of kilometres away in Bangladesh.

The government may bring a change in the prosecution and investigation teams dealing with war crimes as suggested by the Supreme Court after it found neglect and incompetence in handling the case against Delawar Hossain Sayedee.

The activists of BNP youth and student wings lock into a clash with a group of people, who claimed themselves as “Asal BNP” [Original BNP], when they went to grab the party’s Nayapaltan central office in Dhaka.

The most striking example of how poorly the zoo is now being managed is seeing a sheep giving company to a lonely rhino. You can also see a deer as a companion to a lonely Bhutanese cow. In short the zoo looks like a place where all animals are kept to die quickly.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurates textbooks distribution programme among students

Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi says so-called Islamic State (IS) will be ousted from the country, after government forces recaptured Ramadi.