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: A Dhaka court on Monday sent former lawmaker and Awami League Organising Secretary BM Mozammel Haque to jail in a murder case tied to the July uprising.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana passed the order after the police prod...
Bangla Press Desk: Dengue cases surpassed 50,000 in 2025, as 782 more people were hospitalised in the past 24 hours till Monday morning.With the latest hospialisations, the caseload reached 50,689, according to the Directorate General of Health Servi...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia on Thursday signed a landmark agreement on labour recruitment, marking the first formal deal for general workers in the 50-year history of diplomatic relations between the two countries.Asif Nazrul, advi...
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Bangla Press Desk: Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday said there is no alternative before the Election Commission to arranging the next national election in a fair manner in this critical time as it may shape the future of the co...
Bangla Press Desk: Active engagement of the media has been sought to ensure the success of the nationwide typhoid vaccination campaign set to start on 12 October. The authorities made the call at a workshop titled “TCV Vaccination Campaign 2...
Bangla Press Desk: The Army chief has not made any statement about giving indemnity to anyone accused of enforced disappearances, murder, or other crimes against humanity, read a statement of the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) o...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday placed former education minister Dipu Moni on a four-day remand in a murder case filed with Shahbagh police station tied to the student-mass uprising. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arifu...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Army published a Facebook post on Monday, rejecting “ill-motivated and unfounded” allegations against Chief of Army Staff General Waker-uz-Zaman. A vested group is attempting to create divi...
Bangla Press Desk: Three officials of Sonali Bank PLC (SBPLC) today testified in three cases filed against 53 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, over irregularities in the allocation of plots in the...
Bangla Press Desk: Preparations for the upcoming national election are nearing completion in Khulna division, with the Election Commission (EC) almost finalising the draft list of polling centres and updated voter rolls across its 10 district...
Bangla Press Desk: Leaders of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and the Gono Odhikar Parishad are trying to build a separate alliance of like-minded parties, highlighting their moderate democratic position and their differences from the...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 33rd on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 66 at 9:20am this morning (October 6, 2025). Today Dhaka’s air was classi...
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