News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh sets an ambitious target of creating 21.94 million jobs in the tourism sector alone by 2040 as part of a broader strategy to transform tourism into a major co...
Staff Reporter: Dozens of global leaders gathered on Friday to meet Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his hotel suite here in the USA, offering their full support to him and his interim government. They expressed readiness to provide their e...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday (18 Sept) said the RUCSU and CUCSU elections will be held in proper manner. "Elections to RUCSU and CUCSU will go peacefully," he said. He was speak...
Bangla Press Desk: To build business relationships between domestic security and safety product manufacturers, suppliers, importers, software and cyber security sector entrepreneurs and businesspeople with international leading technology...
Bangla Press Desk: Expatriate Bangladeshis must register through a mobile app – Postal VoteBD– within a specific timeframe to cast their votes in the upcoming national election from abroad through postal ballots. Besides, the election...
Bangla Press Desk: The Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) has arrested a fugitive death row convict who escaped from Kashimpur High Security Prison last year. Acting on a tip-off, an operational team of the ATU conducted a raid in Tejturi Bazar...
Bangla Press Desk: Labour has been plunged into a fresh crisis after new details appeared to contradict Tulip Siddiq’s assertion that she had been issued a national identity card and passport. Officials in Dhaka uncovered records of a pa...
Bangla Press Desk: A joint operation by the Bangladesh Coast Guard and the Navy has rescued 66 people, including women and children, who were being held captive by human traffickers in the remote hills of Baharchhara in Teknaf. Coast G...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has briefed newly appointed Ambassador of the Netherlands, Boris van Bommel on the interim government's preparations to hold a general election in the first half of February, emphasising...
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...
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