News and updates from Bangladesh
BanglaPress Desk: Police have recovered the belongings—including a laptop and a camera—of German tourist Cyril Lander-Weber, which had gone missing at Natore Railway Station during his visit to Bangla...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi actor Azmeri Haque Badhon has received support from Bangladesh’s embassy in Rome and consulate in Milan after she alleged she was attacked at Mestre in Venice.Badhon filed a police complaint on Tuesday, nami...
Bangla Press Desk: A man has jumped to his death from the roof of the 16-storey BIRDEM General Hospital in Dhaka, police say.The incident occurred around 6:40pm on Tuesday, according to Ramna Police Sub-Inspector (SI) Nayeem Ul Islam.The...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 577 people in a 24-hour anti-crime crackdown across the capital, filing 40 cases and recovering drugs, weapons and other items.According to a DMP statement, the arrests were made...
Bangla Press Desk: A student of Chittagong University (CU) died of electrocution while hanging a banner at the main gate of Shaheed Abdur Rab Hall last night.The deceased was identified as Ariful Islam, a student of the Zoology Department...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi-origin Eliza Rahman has been elected as the first woman from the diaspora to be elected as a deputy mayor in Australia.On Tuesday, she assumed the role in the Camden council in South-west Sydney in New South Wales...
Bangla Press Desk: Bidisha Siddik, former wife of late president Huseyn Muhammad Ershad, walked out of jail on Tuesday after securing bail in a fraud case.She left the Kashimpur Women Central Jail around 5pm, after the jail authorities received...
Bangla Press Desk: A 104-year-old man, who was sentenced for killing two people during a robbery at a shop in Kishoreganj in 2000, surrendered before a Dhaka court on Tuesday. After surrendering, Nur Mohammad sought bail pending his appeal...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh has reported nine more deaths from dengue over the past 24-hour period, marking the highest single-day toll recorded so far this year.During this period, 1,571 new patients were admitted to hospital with the Aedes...
Bangla Press Desk: Preliminary investigation by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) indicated that an extramarital affair might have been behind the much-talked-about triple-murder in Jamgora of Ashulia.A suspect has been arrested, said An...
Bangla Press Desk: Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon on Tuesday said the government has a proposal to appoint an office assistant in every government primary school, as the absence of such support staff currently burdens teachers...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s school textbooks for the year 2027 will revisit the July Uprising, the “mass killings” and key episodes from Sheikh Hasina’s rule, parliament has heard.Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon revealed the plan...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has set a target of generating at least 20 percent of the country’s total electricity from renewable sources by 2030, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Aninda Islam Amit told Parliament on...
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