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: More than 374,000 candidates have sat for the 47th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary examination. The test was organised simultaneously at 262 educational institutions across eight divisional cities from 1...
Bangla Press Desk: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman has said that journalists’ access to polling centers must be protected in the upcoming national election. He warned that the rule requi...
Bangla Press Desk: Mushfiq Uddin Togor, a convicted defendant in the 2002 murder of BUET student Sabekun Nahar Sony, has been arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion. Togor, who was released from prison on special consideration, was d...
Bangla Press Desk: Saudia, the national flag carrier of Saudi Arabia, has been recognized as the World Class Airline 2026 by the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) for the fifth consecutive year. The award was presented du...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have filed a case against 2,200 unidentified people after four shrines were attacked, vandalized, and set on fire in Homna upazila of Cumilla following loudspeaker announcements on Thursday morning. Homna P...
Bangla Press Desk: BSF handed over 18 Bangladeshis, including a couple of women, through a border checkpoint at Gangni upazila, Meherpur on Friday night, after they were released from different Indian jails. The Bangladeshis, previously...
Bangla Press Desk: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced a temporary suspension of both tourist and work visas for citizens of nine countries including Bangladesh. The directive will come into effect in January 2026. In additi...
Bangla Press Desk: The United States (US) has said the interim government moved to make all procurements for natural resource extraction fully open and transparent, suspending all previous or ongoing direct negotiations led by the prior...
Noman Sabit: Tensions are running high among BNP and Awami League activists in New York ahead of the arrival of interim government Chief Adviser Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, who will attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly...
Bangla Press Desk: Rajshahi University (RU) authorities have suspended the ‘Ward Quota’ in the face of protests and criticism from the students. The announcement was made early Sunday (21 September) through the university’s official Facebook pag...
Bangla Press Desk: Speakers at a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday stressed the urgent need for an effective and independent commission to oversee the Bangladesh Police and to end the political misuse of the country’s prime law enforcement agency....
Bangla Press Desk: Convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) Nahid Islam on Sunday said Awami League (AL) should face trial as a political party for crimes committed against people. Talking to reporters completing his testimony and c...
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