News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh sets an ambitious target of creating 21.94 million jobs in the tourism sector alone by 2040 as part of a broader strategy to transform tourism into a major co...
Bangla Press Desk: The Advisory Council has given final approval to the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance, 2025, aimed at strengthening the country’s previously “toothless” rights body by addressing major flaws in the existing la...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi manpower export agencies must now meet 10 new criteria to send workers to Malaysia — including at least five years of satisfactory experience and evidence of sending a minimum of 3,000 workers abroad in the past f...
Bangla Press Desk: Winners of the National Policy Competition 2025, hosted by the Youth and Sports Ministry, from nine universities and one college across the country on Thursday exchanged greetings with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus.The students...
Bangla Press Desk: A fire broke out at a Meena Bazar outlet in the capital’s Mohammadpur Mohammadia Housing Society on Thursday night.The blaze started around 9:04pm, confirmed a duty officer at the Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters Control...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC) under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is set to host a five-day training workshop on investigative journalism from 1 November.The workshop, which is being organised u...
Bangla Press Desk: Malaysian government has given the green signal to all eligible Bangladeshi agencies to participate in its labour recruitment process under a new uniform selection system. Dhaka now sees renewed prospects for a major boost in...
Bangla Press Desk: British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cook on Tuesday met BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and discussed various issues related to the upcoming national election.The around hour-long meeting, which began at...
Bangla Press Desk:The Supreme Court has clarified that Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed did not seek any explanation from three High Court Division judges over the granting of a large number of bail orders.In a press release issued on Tuesday (28 Octo...
Bangla Press Desk: A murder case was filed last night following a clash between two rival Jubo Dal factions in Chattogram’s Bakalia area, which resulted in the death of a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist.Md Alam, father of the deceased Sajjad,...
Bangla Press Desk: The High Court (HC) on Wednesday issued a rule asking authorities to explain why the victim’s family will not get Tk2 crore compensation for a recent fatal accident caused by a metro rail technical fault.The court also asked an exp...
Bangla Press Desk: Another 174 Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Libya on Tuesday. They arrived at Dhaka at 2:30 pm aboard a Burak Air chartered flight, according to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The repatriation was coo...
Bangla Press Desk: Following the fall of the Awami League government on 5 August 2024, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) began investigating the illegal wealth of Shahriar Alam.The ACC has filed a case against former State Minister for Foreign Aff...
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