News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, commemorating the birth and death anniversary of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), will be observed across the country on 26 August with due religiou...
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Bangla Press Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar has visited BNP Standing Committee Member and Political Advisor to the Prime Minister Mirza Abbas at a hospital in Malaysia to enquire about his health.Porwar, who is current...
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has dismissed social media claims suggesting its workers are arbitrarily removing stray dogs from the streets as “false and misleading”.On Tuesday, the city corporation said protecting...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister’s Information and Broadcasting Adviser Dr Zahed Ur Rahman today (Tuesday) said the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is not being abolished, rather it is being transformed by bringing it under a specific compr...
Bangla Press Desk: Singapore has reiterated its interest in managing the proposed Bay Terminal at Chittagong Port and plans to invest up to $1 billion in its infrastructure development.The non-resident High Commissioner of Singapore to Banglade...
Bangla Press Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is drafting fresh amendments to its law, proposing sweeping changes that would bring even crimes committed from outside Bangladesh under its jurisdiction, regardless of whether the o...
Bangla Press Desk: British health minister Wes Streeting resigned from government on Thursday, saying he had lost confidence in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership."It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the nex...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has announced a seven-day holiday from May 25 to 31 to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, says a notification.The Ministry of Public Administration said in a notification on Thursday that all government, semi-governm...
Bangla Press Desk: The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the University of Chittagong have jointly organised a week-long series of events aimed at promoting evidence-b...
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Bangla Press Desk: An Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting is being held on Tuesday with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the chair.The meeting began at the Public Administration Meeting Room of the Cabinet...
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Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered that former Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, be shown arrested in a case over the killing of rickshaw puller Ripon during the July uprising.Dhaka Met...
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Bangla Press Desk: A group of lawyers on Wednesday staged a human chain in Dhaka demanding the trial of former chief adviser of the interim government Dr Muhammad Yunus and Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum over allegations of negligence in vaccina...
Bangla Press Desk: Testimony has begun in a graft case filed against former inspector general of police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed over allegations of acquiring wealth beyond known sources of income, concealing asset information, and money laundering....
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