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: The government has taken a move to construct 90 three-storey cyclone shelters in 47 upazilas of 12 districts under the Khulna, Barishal, and Chattogram divisions as part of preparedness for the disaster-prone region.&nb...
Bangla Press Desk: The cyclonic storm 'Montha' over the Westcentral Bay and adjoining Southwest Bay of Bengal is likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm.The severe cyclonic storm was centered...
Bangla Press Desk: The Ministry of Food has clarified that there were no irregularities, overpricing, or special privileges involved in the import of wheat from the United States.In a press release issued on Tuesday, the ministry referred...
Bangla Press Desk: Three madrasa girls have remained missing for one and a half months in Thakurgaon, leaving their families in deep distress.The missing girls are Jui, 15, daughter of Shahjalal from Muraripur village in Birganj upazila o...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today said that members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) will be deployed for nine days during the upcoming general election in Februa...
Bangla Press Desk: In a move to ensure port safety and environmental protection, a total of 19 containers of Dangerous Goods (DG) that had been lying unattended for years at Chattogram Port were safely destroyed over the weekend under str...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Consensus Commission (NCC) handed over recommendations for the implementation of the July National Charter to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday.Consensus Commission Vice-Chairman Prof Ali Riaz fo...
Bangla Press Desk: After 97 days of intensive treatment, 12-year-old Milestone School and College aircraft clash victim Navid Nowaz has finally returned to his Uttara residence in Dhaka.Navid, a seventh-grade student of the English version at M...
Bangla Press Desk: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Abdul Momen on Monday said that many corrupt individuals are protected and nurtured by politicians, warning that corruption was among the key reasons behind the fall of the previous g...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Consensus Commission is set to submit its recommendations to the government on the implementation of the July National Charter on Tuesday."The formal handover of the recommendations will take place at 12 noon tom...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has announced that if his party comes to power, women’s official working hours will be reduced from eight to five hours a day.He made the announcement on Sunday (26 Oct)...
Bangla Press Desk: Four people were killed and four others injured when a covered van hit a battery–run rickshaw on Jamalpur-Tangail highway in Sadar upazila of Jamalpur district on Monday.Three of the deceased were identified as Rashed,...
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