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...
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Bangla Press Desk: The Islamic Foundation, an organisation under the Ministry of Religious Affairs, has said that special prayers will be offered in all mosques across the country on Friday for former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia.In a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Army-led joint forces in separate drives across the country arrested 157 suspected criminals in the last eight days from 25 December 2025 to 1 January 2026.Various infantry divisions and independent briga...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) has published a new schedule for the postponed viva voce of candidates who passed the written test of the 46th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS).The detailed schedule has bee...
Bangla Press Desk: A mysterious fire broke out at the old building of the Jashore Registry Office on Thursday night, destroying centuries-old documents, including volume books, balam registers, index books, and other important records.The...
Bangla Press Desk: A fire broke out at a jute warehouse in the Shaildubi area of Kashimpur in Gazipur on Thursday evening.The blaze started around 6pm, according to local sources.After the fire broke out, warehouse workers and local resid...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday said that the bodies of eight July Martyrs, who were buried at Rayerbazar Graveyard in the city as unclaimed ones, have so far been identified after exhumation."The Ministry...
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Bangla Press Desk: The 123rd birth anniversary of famous poet and litterateur Jasimuddin, widely revered as the ‘Polli Kobi’, is being observed on Thursday.The poet was born on this day in 1903 at his maternal uncle’s house in Tambulkhana villa...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday said there is no legal scope to suspend or defer the election following the death of BNP chairperson and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia.“There is no legal sc...
Bangla Press Desk: An investigation committee has found that both bearing pads that became detached from a Metro Rail pillar in the capital’s Farmgate area were defective.The findings were disclosed at a briefing held on Thursday at the confere...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP’s substitute candidates in late chairperson Khaleda Zia’s three constituencies will contest the national elections in her absence after passing the Election Commission’s scrutiny, said the party’s Standing Committee Membe...
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Bangla Press Desk: Five people were killed and another one was injured as a truck ploughed through a roadside banana market and overturned on Rajshahi-Natore highway at Jhalmalia in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi district on Thursday morning.The de...
Bangla Press Desk: Traditionally, students gain professional exposure through internships at the end of their academic life. Breaking away from this conventional approach, bKash has introduced a unique career development initiative titled ‘bHive’, de...
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