News and updates from Bangladesh
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Bangla Press Desk: The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection has fined 120 establishments across 46 districts a total of Tk 9,93,200 following market inspections targeting essential commo...
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Bangla Press Desk: The government is likely to bear the entire cost of repairing and replacing the damaged and faulty components of Bangladesh's first metro rail line, just 43 months after the start of its operation, in the absence of provisions for...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has sent seven assistant superintendents of police (ASPs) and 49 inspectors into mandatory retirement from public service.The Police- 1 and Police- 2 branches of the Ministry of Home Affairs announced the development...
Bangla Press Desk: A young man died after falling between two coaches of a Titas Commuter train while trying to get down from its roof at Narsingdi Railway Station on Friday.The deceased was identified as Md Amir Hossain, 28, son of the late Shamsul...
Bangla Press Desk: A housewife reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet district on Friday.The deceased was identified as Ripa Akter, 24, wife of Russell Ahmed and daughter of Abdur Rahman of...
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Bangla Press Desk: Power generation at Unit 1 of the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur was suspended on Friday morning following a mechanical fault in a pump, reducing the plant’s contribution to the national grid by around 50–55MW.Ab...
Bangla Press Desk: Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Friday described the gas leak at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda as a “very tragic accident” and said necessary action would be taken based on the findings of an...
Bangla Press Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested five people, including a key accused in the murder of teenage gang leader Alex Emon, from Mohammadpur and Keraniganj in Dhaka.RAB-2 made the arrests early Friday based on intellig...
Bangla Press Desk: The government plans to establish three additional floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) at Payra, Mongla, and Hiron Point by 2029 to expand Bangladesh's Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import capacity, says Pow...
Bangla Press Desk: CHATTOGRAM, Aug 13: A sum of Taka 43.8 million (4.38 crore) has been found missing from the cash vault of the Laldighi East Corporate Branch of Agrani Bank PLC, located in the Zilla Parishad building at Laldighi Par in...
Bangla Press Desk: Cooperation between the Netherlands and Bangladesh can expand the access to safe drinking water for communities across Bangladesh, particularly those in climate-vulnerable areas, through public-private partnership, Dutch Amba...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has ordered 49 police inspectors into compulsory retirement after they completed 25 years in service.The Ministry of Home Affairs issued the order on Thursday, before publishing it on its website on Friday.The...
Bangla Press Desk: At least three workers have been killed and several others injured after toxic gas reportedly leaked at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda.The incident occurred on Friday morning while workers were carrying out hou...
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