News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The members of parliament (MP) can show respect to the Speaker’s chair in line with their respective religious customs, said Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad on Thursday.The lawmakers are...
Bangla Press Desk: Naogaon is shivering under a moderate cold wave. The season’s lowest temperature of 6.7 degrees Celsius was recorded in the district at around 6:am on Wednesday. This is the lowest temperature recorded anywhere in the c...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmed Khan has met Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman as part of a series of exchanges with political leaders aimed at maintaining stability on the campus ahead of the 13th Natio...
Bangla Press Desk: The United Nations has said it will not deploy election observers to Bangladesh’s upcoming national parliamentary election scheduled for February 12, citing the absence of a formal mandate from its governing bodies.Resp...
Bangla Press Desk: A delegation from the European Union (EU) held a meeting with BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman to discuss issues related to ensuring a free, fair and credible upcoming national parliamentary election in Bangladesh.The meeti...
Bangla Press Desk: Jagannath University authorities have suspended vote counting for the student union elections due to technical faults in the OMR machines.Election officials started vote counting around 6pm on Tuesday, three hours after...
Bangla Press Desk: Former Bangladeshi diplomat M Humayun Kabir has said that, given the current political and diplomatic realities between Bangladesh and India, the government should avoid unnecessary controversies and concentrate fully on the...
Bangla Press Desk: The Planning Commission has finalised an Annual Development Programme (ADP) worth Tk2 trillion after cutting Tk300 billion. The biggest reductions—up to 74 per cent—have been made in the health and social protection sectors....
Bangla Press Desk: July Uprising’s active participant Tahrima Jannat Surovi has finally secured bail in an extortion case, which has been allegedly filed to “humiliate and dehumanise” her.The Students Against Discrimination, which led the anti-...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 41 aspiring candidates have appealed to the Election Commission (EC) against the returning officers' decisions regarding the cancellation of their nominations, while one has filed an appeal against the acceptance o...
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Bangla Press Desk: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday said that the country’s existence could not be imagined without 1971.“The Liberation War is the foundation of Bangladesh as a state and its politics. The country's very existence c...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s Election Commission has asked political parties and candidates not to conduct any electoral campaign before the symbol allocation for the upcoming national election scheduled to be held on 12 February.“No politic...
Bangla Press Desk: Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq-e-Azam on Monday said identities of eight July uprising martyrs who were buried at Rayerbazar Graveyard as unidentified have been confirmed through DNA test.Both local and internati...
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