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: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman and senior leaders on Wednesday met British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke and discussed issues of mutual interest, including the upcoming national election....
Bangla Press Desk: Brahmanbaria Sadar Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC), Muzaffar Hossain, has been removed from his post for making a post about the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) elections in his personal Faceboo...
Bangla Press Desk: Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday assured that all Bangladeshis stranded in Nepal, including members of the national football team, are safe and will be able to return once the situation there nor...
Bangla Press Desk: There is an error on the ballot papers for the Jatiya Kabi Nazrul Islam Hall student union election, and officials have provided necessary guidelines to student voters to circumvent the mistake. The dormitory’s polling officia...
Bangla Press Desk: The pressure to repay foreign loans taken by previous governments is increasing on and on. For the first time, the interim government paid back more than $4 billion in foreign loans in the 2024-25 fiscal year. At the same time, t...
Bangla Press Desk: DUCSU leaders on Thursday morning paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War and the July Uprising at the Rayerbazar Martyred Intellectual Memorial, marking the beginning of their official activities. The student leaders...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Consensus Commission today began the third round of talks with the political parties in order to discuss implementation of the July Charter. The meeting kicked off at 11:25am at Doel Hall in the capital’s Foreign...
Bangla Press Desk: At the international conference on Rohingya refugees held in Cox’s Bazar last Monday, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus said, “The country is ready for the February elections.” Earlier, on the anniversary of the July Revo...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh government and international organisations are struggling to manage the approximately 1.3 million Rohingya refugees in 33 camps across Cox’s Bazar's Ukhiya and Teknaf. The high birth rate among the Rohingya...
Bangla Press Desk: India has dismissed allegations by Bangladesh that the banned Awami League has opened political offices on Indian soil, saying it is unaware of any such activity and does not permit political campaigns against other c...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s power sector has become heavily dependent on Summit Group, leaving the country virtually hostage to its control. Under the autocratic Awami League government, the sector was made dependent and exposed to seri...
Bangla Press Desk: Army Chief of Staff General Waker-uz-Zaman has reached China on a six-day tour, the Bangladesh Army confirmed in a press statement on Thursday. Waker-uz-Zaman would hold discussions with Chinese authorities on improvin...
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