News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission (EC) has sought nearly Tk 29 billion in funding to conduct local government elections.The allocation request has been submitted ahead of the 2026...
Bangla Press Desk: The United States (US) has deported 101 Bangladeshis, including females, back to Bangladesh. They were sent back by a special American plane on Saturday. Most of the returnees are young. After all the formalities at the airport,...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said perpetrators of the attack on Ghoraghat UNO Wahida Khanam must be punished as an investigation was underway to find out the real cause and identify the masterminds behind the heinous ac...
Staff Reporter: Bangladesh has been elected as a member of the Executive Board of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS securing highest votes (53 out of the 54 votes with 1 abstention) for the term 2021-2023 beginning 01 January 2021. The election was held today (...
Chhabed Sathee: Bangladeshi American physician Dr. Ruhul Abid and his nonprofit organisation Health and Education for All (HAEFA) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a Bangladeshi-American professor...
Staff Reporter: The Rohingya crisis requires a political solution, which lies in the return of the Rohingyas to Myanmar – by addressing root causes, creating right conditions and holding the wrongdoers accountable”- said the Permanent Representativ...
He breathed his last around 6:40 pm Friday in Dhaka Staff Reporter: Shah Ahmad Shafi, the top leader of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and long-serving director general of Chattogram Hathazari Madrasa, passed away on Friday evening at the age of 103....
Staff Reporter: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called for not allowing geopolitical rivalries to weaken the United Nations as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that both developed and developing nations need the UN more than ever. "We must n...
Staff Reporter: 'Bangladesh maintains a strict policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism and violent extremism'said Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Ambassador Rabab Fatima in her statement at UN Plenary Meeting on Meas...
Staff Reporter: Identifying universal and affordable access to vaccines, financing SDGs gap, ending the growing trends of poverty and inequality, supporting the migrant workers, reversing the falling trend of export earnings, ensuring the benefits...
Banglapress Desk: 9-point demand has been announced from the anti-rape and oppression rally. If these demands are not met, a long march will be held from Dhaka towards Noakhali. Anik Roy, general secretary of the student union, announced the progra...
Staff Reporter: Echoing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s call for ‘peaceful use of nuclear technology’, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Ambassador Rabab Fatima told the UN that Bangladesh would pursue safe use of nuclear...
Staff Reporter: Bangladesh has submitted to the United Nations revised information regarding the extended boundary of the continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal. On Thursday, the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Ambassa...
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