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...
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Bangla Press Desk: Every day, approximately 12,000 patients across the country are treated on hospital floors. This adds up to nearly 4.4 million patients receiving floor-based care annually. Furthermore, thousands of additional patient...
Bangla Press Desk: The official Facebook page of Islami Bank Bangladesh was hacked early Friday, with the attackers posting a threatening message and changing the page’s profile and cover photos. The hacking group, identifying it...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Embassy in Copenhagen has strongly objected to what it described as sweeping and unjust allegations of visa misuse against Bangladeshi students in Denmark. In a press release issued Wednesday (1 Oct), the embassy...
Bangla Press Desk: Language Movement veteran, poet, essayist, and Rabindra scholar Ahmad Rafique died at a hospital in Dhaka on Thursday night. He was 96. Ahmad Rafique, who was on life support, breathed his last at 10:12pm at the intensive care u...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka, the city synonymous with endless traffic woes, wore a different look today. With the Durga Puja holidays keeping offices, business hubs, and educational institutions closed, the capital’s main roads on Th...
Bangla Press Desk: A prisoner died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday, hours after being admitted there. The deceased was identified as Md Amir Hossain, 38. Amir fell sick at Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday night, said...
Bangla Press Desk: A joint team of the Bangladesh Navy and Coast Guard has rescued 21 people, including women and children, from a traffickers’ hideout in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, where they had been held captive for trafficking...
Bangla Press Desk: The number of confirmed anthrax infections climbed to 17, with four new individuals diagnosed with the disease in three upazilas of Rangpur. Among the new cases, two were identified in Kaunia, one in Pirgachha, and o...
Bangla Press Desk: The Global Sumud Flotilla consists of more than 40 civilian boats carrying about 500 people, among them parliamentarians, lawyers, and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. It is the latest sea-borne attem...
Bangla Press Desk: Durga Puja, the most significant religious festival for the Bengali Hindu community, is set to end today with the immersion of the idols of Goddess Durga and her children in water bodies across the country amid festiv...
Bangla Press Desk: At least three people, including two women, were killed and 10 others injured when a speeding bus lost control and ploughed into a roadside shop in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni district on Thursday. Two of the deceas...
Bangla Press Desk: A group of journalists on Thursday morning accused NCP activists of harassing them, and boycotted the party’s press briefing on its New York tour. The tour was held on the sidelines of the UNGA summit. The alleged harassme...
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