News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The government has decided to provide laptops to 40,000 students who achieved a 'Golden GPA-5' in the SSC and equivalent examinations. This information emerged from the first meetin...
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Bangla Press Desk: One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 62 this year. The death has been reported in the Dhaka North...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman was admitted to a hospital in the capital on Saturday evening. According to the party press wing, Shafiqur’s condition is stable, as his blood pressure and sugar levels ar...
Bangla Press Desk: Bank Asia has moved to auction mortgaged properties worth Tk116.45 crore of Partex Coal Ltd, a concern of Partex Group, to recover outstanding loans. According to a public notice issued recently by the bank’s Mohakhal...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 18 people have died and dozens are missing after a tourist boat carrying more than 50 capsized Saturday in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, state media said. The vessel was carrying 48 passengers and five crew members w...
Bangla Press Desk: Four murder cases have been filed against 5,400 unnamed individuals in connection with the deadly violence during a National Citizen Party (NCP) rally in Gopalganj that left five people dead. On Saturday night, four...
Bangla Press Desk: The Gopalganj district administration has lifted a curfew and Section 144 imposed following attacks by Awami League activists on NCP leaders and law enforcers about four days ago. The district magistrate issued a noti...
Bangla Press Desk: Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday firmly said Bangladesh will not be the same again as it was in the previous times. “This is our firm belief that the future Bangladesh will not be the same as in the previous...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday convicted and sentenced former chief engineer of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) Md Shahidul Alam to six years of rigorous imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission....
Bangla Press Desk: The trial against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 22 others is set to begin soon in six graft cases over the alleged embezzlement of government plots in the Purbachal New Town Project. Dhaka Metropolita...
Bangla Press Desk: Four hundred and twenty nine more new dengue cases were reported in the past 24 hours till Sunday morning, bringing the total number of cases to 17,218 this year.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS),...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Saturday granted a five-day remand for Md Titon Gazi, who was arrested in connection with the murder of scrap metal trader Lal Chand, alias Sohag near the Sir Salimullah Medical College (Mitford) Hospita...
Bangla Press Desk: "Bangladesh cannot overcome its ongoing political crisis without an ideology-based revolution," remarked journalist Saeed Tarek at a discussion held in Paris on Saturday The event, titled “July Uprising 2024: Achievem...
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