News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The government has decided to rename the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) as the Special Intervention Force (SIF).The government has also decided to redesign the force’s uni...
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Staff Reporter: The government has turned down the plea from Khaleda Zia's family for allowing her to go abroad for better treatment, citing legal grounds. "According to the existing law, there is no scope for granting the application to let BNP...
Staff Reporter : Bangladesh call for a lasting solution to the Palestinian crisis at the United Nations. Bangladesh Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Rabab Fatima has called on the international community to take urgen...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court on Sunday granted the bail plea of journalist Rozina Islam in a case lodged with Shahbagh Police Station by a health ministry official on May 17. Metropolitan magistrate Baki Billah who he...
Banglapress Desk: Bangla Academy director general and poet Habibullah Siraji passed away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka Monday night. He was 72. He left his wife, son and two daughters to mourn his death....
Staff Reporter : A meeting of the preparatory committee for the fifth LDC conference has been held at the UN headquarters. The meeting was jointly convened on Monday (May 24) by Rabab Fatima, Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Na...
Staff Reporter, Dhaka: Today is the 19th death anniversary of Kachuani Beoya, the mother of Chhabed Sathee, an expatriate journalist and editor of US media Bangla Press and online news portal Banglapress.com. Kachuani Beoya breathed her last o...
Staff Reporter: Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, said that bold, innovative, advanced and coordinated assistance from development partners, groups and other relevant international and regional...
Staff Reporter : Bangladesh has been elected Vice-President of 76th General Assembly of the United Nations. Bangladesh was unanimously elected vice-president from the Asia-Pacific region in the election held at the UN General Assembly on Monday (...
Staff Reporter: The United Nations has awarded 129 peacekeepers, including eight Bangladeshis killed, with the ‘Dag Hammarskjöld Medal’. 129 peacekeepers from 44 countries, including eight Bangladeshi peacekeepers who sacrificed their lives in UN...
Staff Reporter : Bangladesh has been added to the list of coroner vaccines received in the United States Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen praised the US expatriates as soon as they landed at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Arrivin...
Staff Reporter:Today is International United Nations Peacekeeping Day. Bangladesh has played a strong role in establishing peace in 40 countries of the world. The country's reputation has spread worldwide with the service of humanity at the risk...
Staff Reporter: Foreign Minister. AK Abdul Momen visited the office of the Bangladesh Consulate General in New York on Wednesday (June 16) and witnessed the quality of various types of consular services. Narayanganj-4 MP Shamim Osman was present...
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