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: Marketed by the now-ousted Awami League as a bold promise to bring “city facilities to every village,” the “My Village, My Town” scheme has unravelled into one of the clearest examples of the party’s overreach and misplaced prior...
Bangla Press Desk: A group of Dhaka University (DU) students held a human chain protesting 'derogatory and racist' remarks made about the DU students by BNP Chairperson’s advisor Fazlur Rahman. They formed this human chain in front of th...
Bangla Press Desk: Four members of the Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) were injured in a fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse in Tongi, Gazipur, on Monday afternoon. The tin-roofed warehouse is located in Sahara Market, whil...
Bangla Press Desk: Nahian Rahman Rochi, executive member and head of Business Development at BIDA, has emphasised the importance of strengthening Bangladesh–China relations. He made the remark at the event organised to mark the 50th anni...
Bangla Press Desk: A court here today imposed travel ban on 57 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former roads and bridges minister Obaidul Quader in connected with an attempted murder case. Metropolitan Magistr...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Army will re-excavate 81.5 kilometres across five rivers to address the longstanding water logging problem in the Bhobdaha region stretching in Jashore and Khulna. To this end, a Memorandum of Unde...
Bangla Press Desk: A patient died at the Khulna Medical College Hospital on Sunday morning minutes after an outsourced cleaner removed the oxygen mask for supplying the life-saving gas to another patient. As the news went viral, the...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh and Australia have launched phase one of the Indo-Pacific Endeavour (IPE) 2025, with 13-day long joint activities between the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Bangladesh Armed Forces scheduled from 21 Sep...
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...
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