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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Banglapress Online: The Awami League mayoral candidates took early lead in the counting of votes in the elections to Rajshahi, Barishal and Sylhet city corporations on Monday. In Rajshahi, Awami League contestant AHM Khairuzzaman Liton bagged 101,4...
Banglapress Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), along with the main three accused in the Sinha murder case–dismissed officer-in-charge (OC) Pradeep Kumar Das, inspector Liakat Ali and sub-inspector (SI) Nandadulal Rakshit–have visited Shamlapur...
Banglapress Desk: The High Court (HC) has ruled that Hindu widows will get a share of their husband's agricultural land. A High Court bench of Justice Miftah Uddin Chowdhury pronounced the verdict in this regard on Wednesday. Jyotindranath Mandal,...
Staff Reporter: Major General (Retd.) Chitta Ranjan Dutta (CR Dutta), the founding president of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Parishad and the commander of Sector 4 during the war of liberation, is no more. He died at a Florida hospital...
Bangla Press Desk: A joint team of police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested four people including main accused of the attack on Dinajpur's Ghoraghat Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Wahida Khanam and her father. The arrestees are, Asadul H...
Staff Reporter : The body of Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bir Uttam, widely known as CR Dutta, commander of sector number four during the Liberation War, will reach Dhaka on Monday (31st August) in the morning by an Emirates flight. His Canadian expatriate...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 40 people were injured after air-conditioners (AC) exploded in a mosque during Isha prayer in Narayanganj on Friday night. Around 150 people were attending the prayer at the mosque when the AC exploded, eyewitness said....
Bangla Press Desk: The United States (US) has deported 101 Bangladeshis, including females, back to Bangladesh. They were sent back by a special American plane on Saturday. Most of the returnees are young. After all the formalities at the airport,...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said perpetrators of the attack on Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam must be punished as an investigation was underway to find out the real cause and identify the masterminds behind the heinous ac...
Staff Reporter: Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the Executive Board of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS securing highest votes (53 out of the 54 votes with 1 abstention) for the term 2021-2023 beginning 01 January 2021. The election was held today (...
Chhabed Sathee: Bangladeshi American physician Dr. Ruhul Abid and his nonprofit organisation Health and Education for All (HAEFA) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a Bangladeshi-American professor...
Staff Reporter: The Rohingya crisis requires a political solution, which lies in the return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar – by addressing root causes, creating right conditions and holding the wrongdoers accountable”- said the Permanent Representativ...
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