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: Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman has been inducted as the 9th Colonel Commandant of the Bangladesh Army’s Engineering Corps at the Parade Ground of Qadirabad Cantonment in Natore on Sunday morning.Upon his arr...
Bangla Press Desk: The government would give Tk5 lakh as compensation to the family of the man who died on Sunday afternoon when a bearing pad fell to the ground from the Farmgate metro rail station.The government would also give job to a...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Justice of Bangladesh Syed Refat Ahmed visited the Sardah Police Academy on Saturday, marking the first-ever visit by a sitting chief justice to the prestigious institution.The visit came at the invitation of Md T...
Bangla Press Desk: The number of SIM cards registered under an individual’s name will be reduced ahead of the national election, said Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday.“One person often commi...
Bangla Press Desk: The newly elected leaders of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) have alleged that the student body has been operating without any funds and that there is no reliable record of its income and expenditur...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant against expelled Jubo League leader and casino kingpin Ismail Chowdhury Samrat, revoking his bail order in a Tk195 crore money laundering case.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistra...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has formed an investigation committee to determine the cause behind the detachment of a bearing pad from a metro rail pillar in Dhaka’s Farmgate area.Adviser to the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has invited experts from four countries – the United King-dom, Australia, China and Turkey – to investigate the fire incident at the cargo village area of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).Home Advi...
Bangla Press Desk: The 152nd birth anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq will be observed today across the country.Popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla (The Tiger of Bengal) or Huq Saheb, he was born on 26 October 1873. Various politi...
Bangla Press Desk: Three people, including two school students, were killed and another was injured when a truck overturned onto their van in Sadar upazila of Pabna district on Sunday morning.The accident occurred in the Bangabari area along Dh...
Bangla Press Desk: After a two-decade gap, the ninth meeting of the Bangladesh-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission (JEC) is set to take place in Dhaka on Monday (27 Oct), marking a significant step toward reviving economic cooperation between the two...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s global mobility and international standing have suffered a sharp blow over the past year, with its passport ranking plunging to one of the weakest in the world amid reports of visa restrictions, deportation...
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