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...
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Bangla Press Desk: The Cabinet Division has reassigned portfolios to state ministers Habibur Rashid and Rajib Ahsan.Habibur was given charge of the railways ministry and the roads transport and highways division, and Rajib assigned to the ship...
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Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday said the 2009 Pilkhana massacre, in which 57 army officers were killed, was a sinister attempt to undermine Bangladesh’s sovereignty.“The Army is a symbol of our sovereignty. I beli...
Bangla Press Desk: Assailants shot an individual to death in the trouble-prone Raozan upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday evening.The deceased was Mujib, 60, a resident of the Purba Guzara area under the upazila. Sources said that miscrean...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 20 people, including several policemen, were injured as BNP activists, allegedly supported by Awami League men, engaged in a clash with National Citizen Party (NCP) followers after an attack on the convoy of NCP lea...
Bangla Press Desk: Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman left for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday on his maiden foreign tour since assuming office to attend an OIC Foreign Ministers-level meeting in Jeddah on the situation in the occupied Palestinian...
Bangla Press Desk: The government on Wednesday appointed Md Mostaqur Rahman as the new Governor of Bangladesh Bank, cancelling the remaining tenure of Dr Ahsan H Mansur with immediate effect.The appointment was confirmed through a gazette notif...
Bangla Press Desk: The BNP-led government under Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has launched a sweeping drive to overhaul the public administration, tighten office discipline and curb batch-based politics within the civil service, officials...
Bangla Press Desk: At the start of the holy month of Ramadan, the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has launched its “truck sale” program nationwide, offering essential commodities at subsidised prices.Under the initiative, consumer...
Bangla Press Desk: Dalda kept at a bakery for preparing various food items was found to contain a dead rat floating inside. The same Dalda was being used to produce a range of savoury snacks. Officials from the Directorate of National Con...
Bangla Press Desk: Ali Hossain Fakir, the newly appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP), officially assumed his duties on Wednesday morning.He took over the responsibility at Police Headquarters succeeding his predecessor.Earlier, the...
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Bangla Press Desk: The government has constituted the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), the country’s highest body for approving public investment projects, with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman as its chairman.The comm...
Bangla Press Desk: The police have closed four personnel for beating up journalists and Dhaka University (DU) students while conducting an anti-narcotics drive at the Suhrawardy Uddyan on Monday night.Authorities are trying to identify two-thre...
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