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: Additional IGP Md Rezaul Karim assumed charge as the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) on Thursday morning. On his first day in office, he pledged to modernize and strengthen Bangladesh’s counterterrorism operation...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have arrested an individual along with stolen money of around Taka25 lakh and a motorcycle purchased from Manikganj district. The arrested was identified as Md Kausar Ahmed (22). Banani thana police arrested...
Bangla Press Desk: Renowned Lalon singer Farida Parveen has passed away at the age of 71 years. (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un). She breathed her last at Universal Medical College Hospital at 10:15 pm on Saturday (13 September)...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s tourism industry continues to lag behind its South Asian peers, with a decline reported in the business last year, apparently due to deterioration in political stability and law and order. The situation i...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh will export 1,200 tonnes of hilsa to India this year following repeated requests from the neighboring country, Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter announced on Saturday. Speaking to journalists...
Staff Reporter: Eminent folk singer and the "Queen of Lalon Geeti" Farida Parveen passed away tonight (13 September). She was 71. She breathed her last at 10:15pm while undergoing treatment at Universal Medical College Hospital in Dhaka,...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Industrial City in Khulna continues to face persistent challenges nearly five decades after its inception, failing to live up to its vision of becoming a th...
Bangla Press Desk: RAB officials have arrested BNP’s suspended leader Sahab Uddin, 54, from the Kumarpara area of Sylhet city in the Sada Pathor looting case, the elite force said in a press release early Sunday. Sahab Uddin was arreste...
Bangla Press Desk: Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has admitted that corruption is particularly widespread in the service sector, saying he himself was once compelled to pay bribes. “Before becoming an adviser, I too had to pay bribe...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi-born academic Dr Md Manjurul Ahsan, currently a research assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, has been selected as a member of NASA’s prestigious STEM Education Ambassadors (STEM EA) program, mar...
Bangla Press Desk: Legendary folk singer Farida Parveen was laid to eternal rest at the municipal graveyard in Kushtia town on Sunday night. She was buried in the same grave where her father Delwar Hossain and mother Roufa Begum had been...
Bangla Press Desk: Three people, including a police officer, were killed as a bus collided head on with a truck in Narail. The accident took place on the Narail-Jashore highway in Bhangura Bazar area of Bagherpara upazila of the district...
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