News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Continuous rainfall over the past few days has submerged thousands of hectares of ripened and semi-ripened Boro paddy across 12 upazilas in Sunamganj, while a leak in an...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the submission of the probe report by 15 April in a case filed over the death of actor Zaher Alvi’s wife, Afra Ibnat Ikra, whose hanging body was recovered from their Mirpur residence in the ca...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said the government has verbally and formally offered the post of Deputy Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad to the main opposition party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, in keeping with the spi...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday placed accused Shaheen Alam on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing and dismemberment of his roommate, Mohammad Obaidullah, into seven pieces.The court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropoli...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has set the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for consumers for the month of March, keeping it unchanged from February.The announcement was made on Monday, with the new...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday ordered that former law minister Anisul Huq and his personal secretary Md Rashidul Kawser Bhuiyan Jibon be shown arrested in a case filed over allegations of extorting nearly Tk25 crore and laundering...
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Bangla Press Desk: The deadline for submitting nomination papers for the general election to Sherpur-3 constituency and the by-election to the vacant Bogura-6 constituency ends today (2 March).Under the schedule issued by the Election Commissio...
Bangla Press Desk: Ekushey Padak-winning poet, literary editor and prominent cultural figure Jahanara Arju passed away on Monday at 1:30pm at her residence in Gulshan. She was 93.She had been suffering from age-related illnesses for a long time...
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Bangla Press Desk: A three-member delegation on behalf of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman paid a courtesy call on former chief adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Saturday afternoon.The delegation was led by the Prime Minister’s Defence Adviser Brig G...
Bangla Press Desk: Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir on Saturday said all outstanding wages and salaries of factory workers will be cleared before the upcoming Eid.He made the remarks while talking to reporters after a view-excha...
Bangla Press Desk: With a commitment to human welfare, social development and technology-based healthcare, the ‘1 One Foundation’ and ‘MedSys Soft Limited’ were officially inaugurated at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre i...
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Bangla Press Desk: Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Saturday said it temporarily suspended all its Middle Eastern flights due to ongoing attacks in several Gulf countries."All Middle Eastern flights are put on hold due to ongoing attacks in the Uni...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP Secretary General and LGRD Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, "A strong team has already started working here to inspect the construction of Thakurgaon Medical College Hospital.They are looking after the sit...
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