News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Five more children died in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning—four from measles-related symptoms and one from a confirmed measles case.In addition, Bangladesh recorded 9...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman could reshuffle the present cabinet or include new members if he thought that one or more ministers were failing to perform, said his Adviser Zahed-ur-Rahman at a briefing in the Secretariat on Tu...
Bangla Press Desk: The death toll from measles and related complications in Bangladesh has reached nearly 800 since authorities began recording cases and fatalities four months ago, with the outbreak showing no sign of subsiding.The country recorded...
Bangla Press Desk: A coordination meeting on security in Bashundhara Residential Area was held between representatives of Rapid Action Battalion-1 (RAB-1) and EWPD Land on Monday (20 July).The meeting, held in the Bashundhara Residential Area,...
Bangla Press Desk: Three people, including a child, were killed after being electrocuted in Chapainawabganj's Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning, police said.The fatal incident occurred in the Baroghoria-Badurtala area, according to Ekramul Hossa...
Bangla Press Desk: The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has warned airlines and service providers against engaging in unauthorized ground handling and other operational services at the country's airports, saying violations will invite le...
Bangla Press Desk: The High Court (HC) on Sunday issued a rule asking why directives should not be issued to appoint female morgue attendants (doms) to conduct autopsies on the bodies of women.A High Court division bench of Justice Fahmida Quad...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 11 witnesses have testified in the Tk34 crore embezzlement case filed against S Alam Group Chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam, Reliance Finance Limited’s former managing director Prashanta Kumar (PK) Halder, and 11 others.Dha...
Bangla Press Desk: Former central vice-presidents of Jubo Dal Zakir Hossain Nannu died of cardiac arrest at United Hospital in Gulshan early Sunday. He was 58.Family members said Nannu breathed his last at 2:20am. He left behind his wife, one s...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman left Dhaka on Sunday for a five-day official visit to Türkiye at the invitation of the Turkish government.According to an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) press release, duri...
Bangla Press Desk: The issue of violent extremism has returned to the centre of Bangladesh’s national conversation following Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s statement in Jatiya Sangsad on July 15 that his government would maintain “zero toleran...
Bangla Press Desk: Miscreants allegedly demolished the house of a local Awami League leader with an excavator, looted valuables and set the property on fire in Mirzaganj upazila of Patuakhali.The incident occurred early Saturday at the residenc...
Bangla Press Desk: Four more children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours until 8am on Saturday (18 July), bringing Bangladesh's combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 784.Of the total fatalities, 95 wer...
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