News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Four people, including two women, were killed and two others injured after a pickup van overturned in the Manikchhari area of Rangamati early Sunday.The accident occurred in f...
Bangla Press Desk: Speakers at a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday stressed the urgent need for an effective and independent commission to oversee the Bangladesh Police and to end the political misuse of the country’s prime law enforcement agency....
Bangla Press Desk: Convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP) Nahid Islam on Sunday said Awami League (AL) should face trial as a political party for crimes committed against people. Talking to reporters completing his testimony and c...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus left Dhaka early Monday for New York to attend the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). An Emirates flight carrying him departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport...
Bangla Press Desk: Police recovered the body of a Russian man, who was employed at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP), from his rented house at Ishwardi upazila, Pabna on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Karprov Kri...
Bangla Press Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted a daylong joint operation in the remote hilly areas of Rajachhara under Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Sunday. During the drive, law enf...
Bangla Press Desk: A Chattogram court on Sunday ordered the issuance of an INTERPOL red notice for former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and his wife Rukmila Zaman, hours after a major Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) operation that recov...
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...
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