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: At least 35 security personnel, including 25 Ansar members and 10 police, were injured while battling a massive fire at the import cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon.The inj...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has assured the nation that the recent series of major fires across the country are being thoroughly investigated by the security services.In a statement issued on Saturday, the chief adviser...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has expressed deep concern over the devastating fire that broke out at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday.In a post on his veri...
Bangla Press Desk: Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and vice president of the Ziaur Rahman Foundation, has praised the foundation for achieving remarkable success despite limited resources.She made the remarks on Sa...
Bangla Press Desk: The fire that broke out at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 2:15pm on Saturday has been fully brought under control, authorities confirmed.According to the Civil Aviation Authority and the...
Bangla Press Desk: Flight operations at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have been temporarily suspended following a fire that broke out in a section of the airport’s cargo village.Spokesperson for the airport’s Executive Direct...
Bangla Press Desk: Four cases have been filed over the violent clashes between law enforcement agencies and protesters under the banner of “July Warriors” on Manik Mia Avenue in Dhaka ahead of the signing of the July Charter.The cases wer...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka-bound flight from Saudi Arabia was diverted to Sylhet due to a massive fire at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.According to airport sources, the flight from Riyadh landed at the Osmani Intern...
Bangla Press Desk: A recent incident of IELTS “question leak scam” has exposed shortcomings in the country’s laws related to the international or private exams as they are controlled and supervised by international entities that apparently go b...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Consensus Commission has amended the fifth clause of the July Charter amidst widespread anger and protests of “July fighters”.The revised clause now has declared, “We will ensure the prosecution of those res...
Bangla Press Desk: Several political parties, including the National Citizen Party (NCP), the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Bangladesh Socialist Party (BASAD), BASAD (Marxist), and Bangladesh JASAD, did not sign the July National Charter 2025....
Noman Sabit: Prosecutors in Bangladesh have demanded that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina be put to death over a deadly crackdown on student-led protests last year that ousted her from power.Hasina, who has fled to India, is on trial for crimes a...
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