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: The Election Commission (EC) is set to issue the final notification on newly registered political parties on 30 September, EC sources said on Thursday. NCP and 21 other aspirant parties are expecting to get full re...
Bangla Press Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a case against Awami League General Secretary and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader and three others for allegedly causing a financial loss of...
Bangla Press Desk: A group of miscreants attacked law enforcement officers and abducted a detained terrorist suspect, Md. Sumon Mia, from police custody in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur on Thursday night. The incident occurred around 8pm near the Sr...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh and India have agreed to stop killings, smugglings, illegal intrusion on borders alongside repatriate their nationals following due legal process and not to take development schemes within 150 yards of zero...
Bangla Press Desk: Some 1.5 million poultry farmers in Bangladesh purchase antibiotics every day without consulting veterinarians — representing 68 percent of total farmers — according to a new study. The research, conducted across 100 f...
Bangla Press Desk: A court in Dhaka on Friday sent 16 individuals, including former minister Abdul Latif Siddique, to jail in a case filed on charges of pushing the country towards armed struggle and plotting against the interim government...
Bangla Press Desk: Gono Odhikar Parishad would observe protest marches in all the 64 districts of the country and hold a central rally in Dhaka on Saturday, in protest against the previous day’s attack on party chief Nurul Haque Nur....
Bangla Press Desk: A mysterious disease has broken out in Pirgacha Upazila of Rangpur, leaving over 200 people infected and triggering widespread panic. Locals report that the outbreak began after livestock fell ill and subsequently...
Bangla Press Desk: Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur, who was injured in an attack in Bijoynagar, Dhaka, has regained consciousness. The information was shared in a Facebook status posted at 7:05 am on Saturday (August 30) fro...
Bangla Press Desk: Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Friday laid emphasis on building the country and institutions with an improved education system and improving the prospects of the young generation, stressing that the poli...
Bangla Press Desk: Law enforcers were compelled to use force against a group of political activists in the capital’s Bijoynagar area on Friday night, after the activists attacked them, rejecting officers’ repeated calls for exercising r...
Bangla Press Desk: 32 sacks of cash were found in the 13 donation boxes of the historic Pagla Mosque in Kishoreganj along with a huge amount of foreign currencies and gold ornaments. After a recess of four months and 17 days, some 13 don...
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