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: Bangladeshis living abroad must remit at least $100,000 to the country in a single year to qualify for Commercially Important Person (CIP) status. For any given year of selection, a specified number of non-resident Bangladeshis who legal...
Bangla Press Desk: Election Commission (EC) Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said an agreement has been signed among the EC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union (EU) for monitoring the forthcoming election scheduled on 12 Februa...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday said that the police must arrest Awami League’s “criminals” whenever they are spotted even if no lawsuit is found against them.If certain police personnel...
Bangla Press Desk: Domestic worker Ayesha on Wednesday confessed to the killing of a woman and her daughter in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam recorded her statement and ordered her to be...
Bangla Press Desk: Law enforcers rescued a joint secretary from a hostage situation in a government car, and detained the vehicle’s driver at Agargaon in the capital on Wednesday noon. The driver Abdul Awal, 40, held Planning...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman has said that he plans to return to Bangladesh on 25 December, expressing confidence about his return.Speaking as a guest at a discussion meeting organi...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 4,56,830 Bangladeshi expatriates have so far registered through the Postal Vote BD app to vote in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad Election and the national referendum.Election Commission (EC) released the updated in...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Communications Professionals Society (BCPS) held its day-long Winter Retreat: Comms Edition at CCLUB, Gazipur on 16 December, bringing together around 45 communications professionals from NGOs, brands, a...
Bangla Press Desk: A delegation of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement is set to meet the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) this afternoon to discuss pressing and contemporary election-related issues.The meeting will take place at 4...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called out broker networks as the main obstacle to exporting Bangladeshi labour, urging immediate action to free the sector from middlemen.Speaking at an event on Internationa...
Bangla Press Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui on Tuesday morning paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing a wreath at ‘Simanta Gaurab’ at the BGB Headquarters...
Bangla Press Desk: The nation is celebrating Victory Day, the most joyous occasion marking the birth of the country, on Tuesday with elaborate programmes in remembrance of the supreme sacrifice of the martyrs.On this glorious day in 1971, Bang...
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