News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister's Information and Broadcasting Adviser Dr Zahed Ur Rahman today (Tuesday) said 300 megawatts of electricity will be added to the national grid from the first un...
Bangla Press Desk: The sentences of seven convicts who were given the death penalty in the murder case filed in connection with the bombing at the Pahela Baishakh celebration programme at Ramna Batamul have been reduced. Among the se...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday put singer-cum-lawmaker Momtaz on a four-day remand in a murder case related to last year’s anti-fascist mass upsurge. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Jewel Rana granted the rema...
Bangla Press Desk: Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday pushed 16 individuals into Bangladesh through Kanaighat border in the district, security and law enforcement officials said. Border Guard Bangladesh members detained the 16...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday urged students to dream of building a new world. "We have the capacity to build the new that we want," he said while delivering his speech at the 5th Convocation Cerem...
Bangla Press Desk: A court in Dhaka on Wednesday sent three people to jail in a case filed over the killing of Shahriar Alam Samya, a Dhaka University student and a leader of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrat...
Minara Helen: Bangladesh has pledged several specialized military and police units to further strengthen the uniformed capabilities of UN peacekeeping operations. Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain announced these new pledges while deliv...
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka South City Corporation on Thursday evicted all illegal shops and makeshift structures from the Suhrawardy Udyan following the fatal stabbing of Dhaka University student and Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal...
Bangla Press Desk: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has begun hearing the appeals filed by the state challenging the High Court verdict that acquitted acting BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman, former State Minister Lutfozzaman Baba...
Bangla Press Desk: Over eight months have passed since the interim government, led by Prof Muhammad Yunus, assumed power amid a crisis following the fall of the fascist Awami League government in the face of a mass uprising in July-August last year.H...
Staff Reporter: The United States has imposed sanctions on former chief of Bangladesh Army Aziz Ahmed and his immediate family members due to his involvement in significant corruption. The US Department of State has issued a new ban on...
Abu Sabet: The ongoing 10th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted an important resolution, affirming the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on 19 July 2024 that declared the...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has thanked United States president Donald Trump for granting a 90-day pause on the reciprocal tariffs announced earlier this week. In a post on X on Wednesday nigh...
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