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...
Chhabed Sathee: Chief Adviser of the interim government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has arrived in New York to attend the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. At 3:10 p.m. local time on Monday (September 22), an Emi...
Staff Reporter: The family of Bangladeshi-American police officer Didarul Islam, who was killed in a gunman’s attack in New York, met with Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus. On Monday (September 22, local time), at a hotel in Manhattan, the Chief...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday conveyed the United States that Bangladesh is fully prepared for the next national election in the first half of February and the interim government is making "comprehensive pre...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus’s visit to New York, accompanied by six senior leaders from three major political parties, has drawn intense discussion over whether or not unresolved political issues might be addressed...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander G Khokholin paid a courtesy call on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman at his office in Bashundhara at 11am on Thursday. At the outset of the meeting, the...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) Vice President-elect Abu Shadik Kayem has pledged to provide unwavering service to students, stressing that accountability will remain the cornerstone of the new leadership. “St...
Bangla Press Desk: Workers of Eurozone Fashion Garments once again staged demonstrations in the capital’s Kuril area on Thursday demanding unpaid wages and allowances. Just nine days earlier on 2 September, the workers blocked the sa...
Bangla Press Desk: In order to comprehensively showcase the achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation between China and Bangladesh, the second edition of exhibition has been inaugurated at the International Convention C...
Bangla Press Desk: The Department of Environment (DoE), under a special initiative of the Ministry of Environment, has conducted 1,540 mobile court drives across the country between January 2 and September 11, 2025, resulting in 3,797 cases...
Bangla Press Desk: The swelling wave of public anger first swept through the island nation of Sri Lanka in 2022 and ousted the president. Two years later, it erupted in Bangladesh as protesters toppled the ruling government. On Monday publi...
Bangla Press Desk: Two people were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on-collision between two buses on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh district on Saturday. The identities of the deceased could not be know...
Bangla Press Desk: Adviser Mahfuj Alam attended two programmes in London on Friday smoothly, despite protests by a small group of Bangladeshis against his presence. The London Metropolitan Police remained in constant contact with the Ba...
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