News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The government has decided to rename the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) as the Special Intervention Force (SIF).The government has also decided to redesign the force’s uni...
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Bangla Press Desk: A fire broke out at a jute warehouse in the Shaildubi area of Kashimpur in Gazipur on Thursday evening.The blaze started around 6pm, according to local sources.After the fire broke out, warehouse workers and local resid...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday said that the bodies of eight July Martyrs, who were buried at Rayerbazar Graveyard in the city as unclaimed ones, have so far been identified after exhumation."The Ministry...
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Bangla Press Desk: The 123rd birth anniversary of famous poet and litterateur Jasimuddin, widely revered as the ‘Polli Kobi’, is being observed on Thursday.The poet was born on this day in 1903 at his maternal uncle’s house in Tambulkhana villa...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Thursday said there is no legal scope to suspend or defer the election following the death of BNP chairperson and former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia.“There is no legal sc...
Bangla Press Desk: An investigation committee has found that both bearing pads that became detached from a Metro Rail pillar in the capital’s Farmgate area were defective.The findings were disclosed at a briefing held on Thursday at the confere...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP’s substitute candidates in late chairperson Khaleda Zia’s three constituencies will contest the national elections in her absence after passing the Election Commission’s scrutiny, said the party’s Standing Committee Membe...
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Bangla Press Desk: Five people were killed and another one was injured as a truck ploughed through a roadside banana market and overturned on Rajshahi-Natore highway at Jhalmalia in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi district on Thursday morning.The de...
Bangla Press Desk: Traditionally, students gain professional exposure through internships at the end of their academic life. Breaking away from this conventional approach, bKash has introduced a unique career development initiative titled ‘bHive’, de...
Bangla Press Desk: Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided in principle to purchase 14 aircraft from Boeing, opting out of rival Airbus, in a major fleet expansion and modernisation move.The decision was taken at the airline’s Annual General Meeting he...
Bangla Press Desk: Additional Attorney General Mohammad Arshadur Rouf has been given the additional charge of the post of attorney general.A notification signed by Law and Justice Division Secretary Liaquet Ali Molla today, said the president has giv...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka witnessed widespread fireworks and firecracker celebrations on Wednesday night despite an official ban imposed during the state mourning period following the death of former prime minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khal...
Bangla Press Desk: Following the final farewell of his mother uncompromising leader, BNP Chairperson and three-time former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has expressed heartfelt gratitude to members of the...
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