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: The bodies of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers who were killed in a drone attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission base in Sudan have arrived in Bangladesh. The flight carrying the bodies landed at Hazrat Shahjalal In...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has requested city residents to follow traffic instructions and use alternative routes to ensure smooth traffic management during the janaza of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.Acc...
Bangla Press Desk: Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, has departed for London. She left Dhaka on Saturday morning (20 December) at around 8:30am on a Qatar Airways flight.According to the BNP media cell, Zub...
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...
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