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...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday granted a three-day remand to Abul Hasan, former officer-in-charge (OC) of Jatrabari Police Station, in connection with the murder of Imran Hasan during the July uprising last year.Dhaka Metropolitan...
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Bangla Press Desk: A national dialogue on Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) was held on Monday at a hotel in Dhaka, calling for the inclusion of strong WASH commitments in the election manifestos of political parties contesting the upc...
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Bangla Press Desk: Speakers have warned that rising unemployment, an increase in the number of people living below the poverty line, and a growing mob-dependent trend in political culture are alarming signals for the country.They said that ens...
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Bangla Press Desk: UN Chief Antonio Guterres condemned on Saturday's "horrific" drone attack on Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Sudan, a strike that killed six people and wounded six others."I strongly condemn the horrific drone attacks that...
Bangla Press Desk: President Md Sahabuddin paid tribute to the nation’s finest minds at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial in Mirpur, Dhaka on the occasion of Martyred Intellectuals Day.The President laid the wreath at around 7:00am on S...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have identified the motorcycle used in the attack on Sharif Osman Hadi, Inqilab Mancha convener and prospective independent candidate for Dhaka-8, and detained its owner Abdul Hannan from Mohammadpur.Police confi...
Bangla Press Desk: A vast tracts of uncultivated land in Chattogram region are set to be brought under productive use as the government has launched a major agricultural project aimed at raising crop output and strengthening food security...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh has called on the international community to ensure predictable and adequate financing to help vulnerable nations tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.The appe...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have launched a combing operation to detain the unidentified youth who shot Dhaka-8 constituency candidate Osman Hadi in the capital's Bijoynagar area on Friday afternoon. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Com...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has ordered law enforcement agencies to take swift action to identify and arrest those involved in the shooting of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Moncho and an independ...
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Bangla Press Desk: The two-day international conference “Climate Justice Assembly 2025” is set to take place on 13–14 December at the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Auditorium in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.The event is being organi...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) jointly hosted a stakeholder engagement workshop titled “Research and Innovation Scaling Demand in Ba...
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