News and updates from Bangladesh
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Bangla Press Desk: A court here today ordered authorities concerned to publish notices on newspapers, asking 262 people including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to appear before it in a case file...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
Bangla Press Desk: Before 2008, Sadhan Chandra Majumder used to sit on mats at different village markets to buy paddy. He would deliver that paddy to different destinations by bullock cart. In this way, he became a rice trader. In the 1980...
Bangla Press Desk: A 14-year-old girl, who sustained burn injuries in a gas explosion near the BSCIC area of Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital on Monday night, becoming the third casualty in the f...
