News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Continuous rainfall over the past few days has submerged thousands of hectares of ripened and semi-ripened Boro paddy across 12 upazilas in Sunamganj, while a leak in an...
Noman Sabit: Violent protests erupted in several cities across Bangladesh after the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi late on Thursday, with concerns of further unrest ahead of national elections in which he was due to run. Hadi, 32, a spokespe...
Staff Reporter: This year, meritorious students from two universities in Dhaka have received a total of Tk 500,000 in scholarships under the FOBANA Scholarship program. On behalf of the Federation of Bangladeshi Associations in North America (FOBANA)...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has beefed up security across the capital by deploying additional number of army personnel, RAB members, BGB members and policemen at crucial points.Enhanced security measures were spotted in Dhanmondi, K...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said that the attack on the country’s two leading media houses was tantamount to an attack on free media itself.“The attack on the country’s two leading media outlets is tant...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Health Reporters Forum (BHRF), an organisation of journalists covering the country’s health sector, on Friday got a new body for the 2025–2027 term, with senior journalist Pratik Ejaj and Senior Correspon...
Bangla Press Desk: Overseas Correspondents Association Bangladesh (OCAB), a platform representing international media based in Dhaka, on Friday strongly condemned the attacks against journalists, editors, and media outlets carried out on...
Bangla Press Desk: A fire erupted at the Dhaka office of the Udichi Shilpigosthi after Friday evening, amid a tense situation in the capital over protests against the killing of July Uprising participant Osman Hadi.Locals said a group of...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has received a travel pass to return to Bangladesh.He applied for the document at the Bangladesh High Commission in London on Thursday (18 Dec), aiming to return to the country on 25 D...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Press Club has “strongly condemned” the overnight attacks on the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star on Friday.Press Club President Hasan Hafiz and General Secretary Ayub Bhuiyan protests the incident...
Bangla Press Desk: Around 345 undocumented migrants returned to the country from Libya on Friday, said a foreign ministry press release.It was not clear whether they were held in Libyan detention centres for illegal migrants.They sought t...
Bangla Press Desk: Students and members of the public began gathering at Shahbagh in the capital on Friday morning to protest the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a frontline organiser of the July mass uprising and spokesperson of Inqilab Monc...
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Bangla Press Desk: A group of unruly people set fire to the building of cultural organisation Chhayanaut in the capital’s Dhanmondi area in the early hours of Friday as violence spread in the country over the death of Inqilab Moncho spoke...
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