News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar has visited BNP Standing Committee Member and Political Advisor to the Prime Minister Mirza Abbas at a hospital in Malaysia...
Bangla Press Desk: British health minister Wes Streeting resigned from government on Thursday, saying he had lost confidence in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership."It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the nex...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has announced a seven-day holiday from May 25 to 31 to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, says a notification.The Ministry of Public Administration said in a notification on Thursday that all government, semi-governm...
Bangla Press Desk: The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the University of Chittagong have jointly organised a week-long series of events aimed at promoting evidence-b...
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Bangla Press Desk: An Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting is being held on Tuesday with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the chair.The meeting began at the Public Administration Meeting Room of the Cabinet...
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Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered that former Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, be shown arrested in a case over the killing of rickshaw puller Ripon during the July uprising.Dhaka Met...
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Bangla Press Desk: A group of lawyers on Wednesday staged a human chain in Dhaka demanding the trial of former chief adviser of the interim government Dr Muhammad Yunus and Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum over allegations of negligence in vaccina...
Bangla Press Desk: Testimony has begun in a graft case filed against former inspector general of police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed over allegations of acquiring wealth beyond known sources of income, concealing asset information, and money laundering....
Bangla Press Desk: Twelve people suffered burn injuries in an explosion, apparently from gas leakage at the canteen of a power plant in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj district on Wednesday.The victims were Ramijul, 15, Monir Hossain, 45, Badr...
Bangla Press Desk: The Jatiya Party has reported an election expenditure of around Tk 500,000 for candidates contesting across 196 constituencies, a figure far below the amount permitted under electoral rules.A three-member delegation of the pa...
Bangla Press Desk: A national seminar titled ‘The Necessity of Effectively Increasing Taxes and Prices on All Tobacco Products in the Upcoming FY 2026–27 Budget for Protecting Public Health’ was organized by Development Organisation of the Rura...
From one end of the capital to the other, the same picture emerges everywhere. Roads have been dug up and left unattended for months in some areas, while piles of soil, sand and construction materials occupy half the streets elsewhere in the name of...
Bangla Press Desk: Amnesty International has said that unnecessary restrictions were imposed on freedom of expression, association, and assembly under the interim government led by Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus.In a report published on 23 April, the or...
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