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: Under the leadership of BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman, a total 24 individuals have been appointed as state ministers in the new government. They will take their oath on Tuesday afternoon at the South Plaza of the National...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government is forming a 49-member Cabinet, comprising 25 full ministers and 24 state ministers. Among them, three are being appointed as technocrat ministers and state ministers.The newl...
Bangla Press Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman will become the opposition leader in the 13th parliament, and NCP Convener Nahid Islam will serve as the opposition chief whip, the opposition alliance decided in a meeting on Tuesday.Jma...
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Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced domestic worker Surovi Akter Nahid to death in the case over the killing of Afroza Begum and her housemaid Diti in 2019.However, another accused, Bachchu Mia, an employee of the household, w...
Bangla Press Desk: Journalist Anis Alamgir has been imprisoned for criticising the government and has remained behind bars for the past two months. He was picked up from a gym in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, on 14 December last year and later shown...
Bangla Press Desk: President Mohammed Shahabuddin will administer the oath of office to the members of the new cabinet on Tuesday afternoon. The oath-taking ceremony will be held at 4:00pm at the South Plaza of the Parliament building.Kan...
Bangla Press Desk: Forty-five government vehicles have been kept ready at the Secretariat for ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers-to-be.Officials concerned said according to the Cabinet Division’s requirements, the vehicles were arr...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have recovered the throat-slit bodies of a woman and two children from a house in Homna upazila of Cumilla on Tuesday morning.The deceased were identified as Sukhi Akter, 25, wife of Saudi expatriate Zahirul Isla...
Bangla Press Desk: Tarique Rahman has been unanimously elected as the Leader of the House and Prime Minister by the Members of Parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).The parliamentary party meeting of BNP was held at 11:30 am af...
Bangla Press Desk: Five of the eight parliamentary constituencies in Tangail district have elected new faces in the 13th National Parliament election, with the winners set to take oath as Members of Parliament (MPs) for the first time.The newl...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP MPs-elect have taken oath as only members of the 13th parliament, not as members of the Constitution Reform Council on Tuesday morning.Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin administered the oath at 10:43am in line w...
Bangla Press Desk: The newly-elected Members of Parliament from the 13th National Parliament Election will take their oath at 10:00am on Tuesday. They are entering the Parliament building to take the oath. The ceremony will be held in the...
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