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: Chief Justice (CJ) Syed Refaat Ahmed will inaugurate the Supreme Court Secretariat on Thursday afternoon.The inauguration ceremony will be held at 2:30pm at Administrative Building-4 of the Supreme Court (SC) premises.Md Shaf...
Bangla Press Desk: The German government is ready to provide all possible assistance for strengthening the judiciary and judicial independence in Bangladesh, Ambassador Dr Rüdiger Lotz said during a meeting with Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed...
Bangla Press Desk: The medical treatment of BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia will continue at home for the time being, her medical board has confirmed.They also stated that her overall condition remains largely unchanged as...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 292,788 expatriate Bangladeshis have so far registered for the country's first-ever postal voting system, enabling those living abroad to cast their ballots in the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and th...
Bangla Press Desk: Claiming that the election season is already underway across the country, Religious Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain on Wednesday said the upcoming national election will be held in a festive, fair and inclusive ma...
Bangla Press Desk: Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has said that there is nothing Bangladesh can do if India is unwilling to send back the ousted authoritarian ruler Sheikh Hasina.He made the remark on Wednesday while responding...
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Bangla Press Desk: “There is no law that allows a river to be leased for fish farming. Perhaps the leasing began under pressure from influential people, and it has continued since.”— Jahangir Selim, Member, Jamalpur River Protection Commi...
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Bangla Press Desk: Working closely with international partners such as UNDP, Japan remains committed to making contributions towards a sustainable solution to the Rohingya response, said Charge d’Affaires ad interim of Japan to Bangladesh...
Bangla Press Desk: Ahead of the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the upcoming referendum, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A M M Nasir Uddin and the full commission will meet President Md Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban to brief him on over...
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Bangla Press Desk: Two student advisers of the interim government, Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan and Md Mahfuz Alam, may resign from the advisory council ahead of the 13th national parliamentary election.Political circles indicate that they...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) on Tuesday signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Italy-based defence company Leonardo S.p.A. to procure Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role combat aircrafts, marking a major step in the modernisat...
Bangla Press Desk: Justice Syed Enayet Hossain took oath as a permanent judge of the High Court on Tuesday.Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed administered the oath at the Chief Justice’s private chamber in the Supreme Court.The ceremony was conduc...
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