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: Ahead of the national parliamentary election, everyone concerned within the government is actively working to deliver a free, fair, and impartial vote. As a result, special anti-drug operations have declined, and even routine...
Noman Sabit: Tarique Rahman has lost his voice. That isn’t ideal for the aspiring leader of Bangladesh, the South Asian nation of 175 million. It’s also tinged with irony since, as his homeland’s de facto opposition leader, Rahman’s speeches had been...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Robin alias “Tera Robin” to death in a case over the killing of a man named Sohel nearly 11 years ago in the Jurain area of the capital. The court also sentenced two other convicts, Ripon...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday granted a fresh three-day remand for Md Rubel Ahmed, a close associate of shooter Faisal Karim Masud, in the murder case of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Shaheed Sharif Osman Bin Hadi.Dhaka Additional...
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Bangla Press Desk: With election fever sweeping the country, all eyes are now on 12 February, a day that will mark two critical tests at once. On that day, voters will elect their representatives through the 13th national parliamentary election...
Bangla Press Desk: A three-year-old child fell into an uncovered hole of a deep tube well in Raozan upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday afternoon.The child, identified as Misbah, is the son of Saiful Islam, a day labourer from village Joynagar u...
Bangla Press Desk: A frantic four-hour rescue effort ended in tragedy as a three-year-old child died after falling into an uncovered hole of a deep tube well in Raozan upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday.Chattogram Fire Service and Civil Defence...
Bangla Press Desk: The United Student Union, a joint platform of the central student unions of five public universities, has announced a series of mass gatherings across the country’s eight divisional cities aimed at mobilising public support f...
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday defended the government’s decision to set up a UAV (drone) manufacturing and assembly plant in Bangladesh with support from China, stressing that it matters little what others may think about the...
Bangla Press Desk: The July National Charter is a pact between people and political parties, with the parties themselves primarily responsible for its implementation, said Prof Ali Riaz, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser.“Thirty political...
Bangla Press Desk: Dr Eliska Zigova, non-resident ambassador of Czech Republic to Bangladesh, on Wednesday highlighted prospects for enhanced cooperation in the defence sector between her country and Bangladesh.She made the call during a courte...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered Md Kamal Hossain, a senior assistant secretary (Officer on Special Duty) at the Ministry of Public Administration, to be sent to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)...
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