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...
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...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus left Dhaka early Monday for New York to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). An Emirates flight carrying him departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport...
Bangla Press Desk: Police recovered the body of a Russian man, who was employed at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), from his rented house at Ishwardi upazila, Pabna on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Karprov Kri...
Bangla Press Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted a daylong joint operation in the remote hilly areas of Rajachhara under Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Sunday. During the drive, law enf...
Bangla Press Desk: A Chattogram court on Sunday ordered the issuance of an INTERPOL red notice for former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and his wife Rukmila Zaman, hours after a major Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) operation that recov...
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