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...
DHAKA: Students, under the banner of Bangladesh General Students' Right Protection Council, formed a human chain on DU campus, to press the government for issuing a gazette notification on cancelling quota system in public service jobs. Hundreds of...
Banglapress Online: Nine more alleged drug traders were killed in reported gunfights with law enforcers early yesterday during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive across the country, reports UNB. Of them, three were killed in Dhaka city while one each...
Banglapress Online: Tofael Ahmed Joseph, a criminal who rose to infamy in the 1990s, has been freed on presidential mercy. "We freed him after receiving the order on Sunday,” said Md Jahangir Kabir, senior jail superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail...
Banglapress Online: Fitra has been fixed at minimum of Tk 70 per person this year. Islamic Foundation fixed the amount at a meeting chaired by Maulana Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, senior pesh imam of Baitul Mukarram national mosque and president of the...
Banglapress, Dhaka: A Chittagong court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, also younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in a defamation case filed...
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Dumuria Police OC M Habil Hossain said 20 more passengers were also injured in the accident that took place in Atolia on the Khulna-Satkhira road at about 1pm.Quoting passengers, police s...
Banglapress Online:The first Hajj flight of 2018 left Bangladesh for Saudi Arabia with 419 pilgrims aboard on Saturday morning. A total of 126,198 Bangladeshis will be allowed to make the pilgrimage this year, according to the agreement with Saudi A...
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