News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Continuous rainfall over the past few days has submerged thousands of hectares of ripened and semi-ripened Boro paddy across 12 upazilas in Sunamganj, while a leak in an...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media (BJIM) and Mindshaper jointly organised a mental health awareness workshop for journalists titled "Living with Reality" at the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro in the capital on Fr...
Bangla Press Desk: Gazipur appears to be turning into a crime hotspot, with murders, muggings, robberies and extortion now a daily occurrence — often in broad daylight — leaving residents in fear. On Friday morning, police recovered a he...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Professor Mia Golam Porwar has said that people’s lives have become unbearable due to the atrocities of extortionists. In a statement posted on Facebook last Thursday night,...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) engineer, dismissed over alleged corruption more than five years ago, has been reinstated and appointed chief engineer. Md Asaduzzaman was dismissed from his post as additional chi...
Bangla Press Desk: The law and order situation in the country has become alarming as some terrible crimes, including grisly murders, were reported over the last couple of days. At least seven gruesome murders were reported in the last th...
Bangla Press Desk: The commission formed to investigate enforced disappearances during the Awami League’s tenure has so far received 1,837 allegations, with 1,772 cases reviewed, according to its preliminary report. Of the victims, 1,427 —...
Bangla Press Desk: Former Secretary and BNP Chairperson's Personal Secretary ABM Abdus Sattar has claimed he possesses evidence of “extensive corruption” involving eight advisers of the interim government. Refraining from mentioning the...
Bangla Press Desk: There is an atmosphere of fear, underlying tension, and fear of anarchy surrounding the month of August. This eventful month marks one year since the change of power. Alongside the government, various anti-fascist groups...
Bangla Press Desk: Dr Ahmad Kaikaus’s rise within the bureaucracy reads like a fairy tale. Starting from virtually nothing, he suddenly emerged into the limelight. During his government service, he took study leave to Dallas, USA, where he...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh interim government of Mohammed Yunus is falling short in implementing its challenging human rights agenda a year since tens of thousands of people took to the street to successfully depose their authoritarian gover...
Bangla Press Desk: The “July Charter 2025," intended to be a foundational document for Bangladesh's state reforms, could not be finalised due to the lack of full agreement among political parties on the draft, though the 31 July deadlin...
Bangla Press Desk: November 1, 2015 — the largest power blackout in Bangladesh's history occurred. Almost the entire country was left without electricity. This catastrophe is referred to as the "Blackout." Around 150 million people were a...
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