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: 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,...
Bangla Press Desk: Six more deaths were reported from dengue in the past 24 hours till Monday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the Aedes mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 269 this year.In the 24-hour span, 983 more pat...
Bangla Press Desk: Security has been tightened in parts of Khagrachhari as the army increased patrols and set up a temporary camp in Lakshichhari upazila’s Barmachhari area following allegations of arms smuggling through the border and rising...
Bangla Press Desk: A 23-member delegation from Japan’s National Business Support Combined Cooperatives (NBCC) met with Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday afternoon at the state guesthouse Jamuna to discuss progress in recrui...
Bangla Press Desk: After a 22-day government-imposed fishing ban, hilsa (ilish) has made its return to markets in Khulna, though supplies remain limited and prices high.The ban, aimed at protecting mother hilsa and ensuring sustainable product...
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