News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday dismissed a police plea to show former Major Md Sadikul Haque arrested in a case filed over the burning of a car in the capital.Dhaka Metropolitan Magi...
Bangla Press Desk: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has dissolved its existing hall committees at Dhaka University (DU) and announced new convening committees for all units. In a...
Bangla Press Desk: From January-June this year, the US witnessed a modest increase in apparel imports, reaching $38.16 billion globally, reflecting a 6.74% rise from the previous year. Noteworthy changes in the number of units include a...
Bangla Press Desk: National Consensus Commission Vice President Professor Ali Riaz said on Friday that Bangladesh stands at the threshold of a political transformation, citing the 2024 mass uprising as a turning point for reform. He...
Bangla Press desk: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has pushed 18 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, into Bangladesh through two border points in Naogaon’s Dhamoirhat and Sapahar upazilas early Friday morning....
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Road Transport Owners-Workers Coordination Council has called a 72-hour nationwide transport strike from 6:00am on Tuesday (12 August) to 6:00am on Friday (15 August). During this period, all buses a...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media (BJIM) and Mindshaper jointly organised a mental health awareness workshop for journalists titled "Living with Reality" at the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro in the capital on Fr...
Bangla Press Desk: Gazipur appears to be turning into a crime hotspot, with murders, muggings, robberies and extortion now a daily occurrence — often in broad daylight — leaving residents in fear. On Friday morning, police recovered a he...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Professor Mia Golam Porwar has said that people’s lives have become unbearable due to the atrocities of extortionists. In a statement posted on Facebook last Thursday night,...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) engineer, dismissed over alleged corruption more than five years ago, has been reinstated and appointed chief engineer. Md Asaduzzaman was dismissed from his post as additional chi...
Bangla Press Desk: The law and order situation in the country has become alarming as some terrible crimes, including grisly murders, were reported over the last couple of days. At least seven gruesome murders were reported in the last th...
Bangla Press Desk: The commission formed to investigate enforced disappearances during the Awami League’s tenure has so far received 1,837 allegations, with 1,772 cases reviewed, according to its preliminary report. Of the victims, 1,427 —...
Bangla Press Desk: Former Secretary and BNP Chairperson's Personal Secretary ABM Abdus Sattar has claimed he possesses evidence of “extensive corruption” involving eight advisers of the interim government. Refraining from mentioning the...
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