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: 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...
Bangla Press Desk: Sadhan Chandra Majumder was born into a lower-middle-class family in Shibpur Baldahghat village of Niamatpur upazila in Naogaon. For someone from such a family background, becoming a minister was itself a surprise. His po...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday urged Bangladesh’s youths to use their talent, energy and creativity for the country’s development, saying no problem will remain unsolved if they stay active and involved....
Bangla Press Desk: Protesters went on a rampage in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur district on Monday opposing the demarcation of Faridpur-4 constituency by the Election Commission. They vandalised Bhanga Police Station, Upazila Parishad bui...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday placed Enayet Karim Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-origin United States (US) citizen, on a two-day remand on Monday over alleged suspicious movements in the ministerial zone near Minto Road in the capit...
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