News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Launch fares have been increased by 23 poisha per kilometer for the first 100 kilometers. Additionally, fares for distances exceeding 100 kilometers have been raised by 20 poisha.Th...
Staff Reporter: Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected as the President of the UN Women Executive Board for the year 2022. The election of the 5-member bureau was held t...
Bangla Press Desk: Maulana Mamunul Haque, the joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam, has been arrested. Police arrested the Hefazat leader from Jamia Rahmania Arabia madrasa in the capital’s Mohammadpur on Sunday (April 18) noon. Iftekharul I...
Banglapress Desk: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi reached Bangladesh on Friday morning on a two-day official visit to join the celebrations of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence, the establishment of bilateral relations and the b...
Staff Reporter: US citizens have issued warnings on Bangladesh traveling due to the increased number of victims and deaths. On Thursday (April 8), US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued this warning on their website. If someone is tour of Ba...
Staff Reporter : Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US-based Sovereign Infrastructure Group (SIG), a global financing company that works with project sponsors and Multilateral Development Ban...
Staff Reporter: Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Ambassador Rabab Fatima said today, “The lack of infrastructure, especially in the areas of ICT, health, and education was acutely felt during the COVID-19 pandemic hel...
Bangla Press Desk: Noted actor Sarah Begum Kabori, who was on life support, passed away today at 12:20am at the capital's Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute & Hospital. She was 70. The news was confirmed by Zayed Khan, General Secr...
Staff Reporter : In the last five decades, Bangladesh has made unprecedented progress and has become a surprise of the development, the permanent representatives of the United Nations, the permanent representatives and ambassadors of the United N...
Staff Reporter: The government has decided to reopen all shops and malls across the country from April 25 amid the strict lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19. The shops and malls will remain open from 10am to 5pm every day. Legal action will...
Staff Reporter: US President Joe Biden and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken greeting on golden jubilee and 50th National Day.US Secretary of State Blinken said in the press statement of the US Foreign Ministry, "The establishment of a safe a...
Banglapress Desk: Five family members and three domestic staff of Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir left Dhaka for Dubai by a chartered aircraft last night. The private jet left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around...
Staff Reporter : Hundreds of protesters clashed with Minneapolis police after the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old Black man at a traffic stop. Daunte Wright, 20, was shot on Sunday afternoon after being stopped for a traffic violation. Police h...
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