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 Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested former Member of Parliament (MP) for Naogaon-6 constituency Md Omar Faruk Sumon and four other individuals from different parts of the capital.All the...
Bangla Press Desk: The government will soon begin the process of recovering encroached properties belonging to the Bangladesh Post Office, said Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, special assistant to the chief adviser in charge of the Ministry of Posts, Telec...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka University (DU), the country’s premier institution of higher education, has made remarkable progress in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026, moving up 200 places to secure a position in...
Bangla Press Desk: A member of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) accused of amassing illegal wealth has been made an officer on special duty (OSD) just a day after being appointed president of the Customs, Excise and VAT Appellate Tribunal.Mo...
Bangla Press Desk: The fossil fuel industry’s long-standing promise to lead the global transition toward cleaner energy has largely failed to materialize. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universita...
Bangla Press Desk: For the first time in Bangladesh’s history, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her ex-Defence Adviser Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and 25 former senior securi-ty officia...
Bangla Press Desk: A series of crude bomb explosions took place in front of Holy Cross College and Holy Rosary Church in the capital’s Farmgate area on Wednesday night, triggering panic among locals and passers-by.The incident occurred at around 10:1...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of local government expert, researcher, and former member of the Local Government Reform Commission Professor Tofail Ahmed.In a co...
Bangla Press Desk: Chattogram Nagorik Parishad, a group representing Bangalee communities in the hill tracts, has announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal in Bandarban next Monday, protesting the decades of discrimination against Bangalees in the region.The g...
Bangla Press Desk: Three people, including two motorcyclists and a pedestrian, were killed in separate road accidents in Chattogram on Wednesday night.Police said the accidents took place in Halishahar area of the Faujdarhat–Port Link Road and near A...
Bangla Press Desk: A young man died after being electrocuted while allegedly trying to steal electric wires near the runway area of Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Wednesday night.The incident occurred around 10 pm, confirmed Syed Anisur Rahma...
Bangla Press Desk: Local government expert and former academic Professor Tofail Ahmed passed away on Wednesday night. He was 71.He breathed his last at around 9:30pm at a hospital in the capital. The news of his passing was confirmed by his...
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