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: The Dhaka University (DU) administration has issued a show-cause notice to Sarbamitra Chakma, who resigned from DUCSU on Monday, over an incident in which teenagers were made to do sit-ups by holding their ears at the univers...
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Bangla Press Desk: A 15-week Chinese Language Training Course for the officials of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) was inaug...
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Bangla Press Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized various smuggled goods worth over Tk19.08b during operations conducted across border areas and other parts of the country last year.The para-military force carried out anti-smuggling...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced three people, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman, to death in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of six people, including Anas,...
Bangla Press Desk: Operations at the Rampal Thermal Power Plant remain stable and normal, according to Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL).In a statement issued on Monday (26 January), BIFPCL Managing Director R. Sarangpani sai...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 is scheduled to pronounce its judgment today in a case filed over crimes against humanity committed in the city's Chankharpul area on 5 August 2024, when six people were brutally killed.ICT...
Bangla Press Desk: The recent rescue of a Royal Bengal Tiger after it was caught in a deer snare has once again drawn attention to rampant poaching and the widespread use of deadly traps deep inside the Sundarbans, posing a growing threat to the fore...
Bangla Press Desk: Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday said the government is moving away from financing large-scale development projects through foreign loans and stressed the need for avoiding a “debt trap”.“We do not want to take lo...
Bangla Press Desk: Muggers looted Tk24 lakh by firing gunshots and exploding crude bombs in the Basan area of Gazipur city on Sunday afternoon.Witnesses said Saiful Islam, a staff member of a Dutch-Bangla Bank agent outlet owned by Shafiqul Isl...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Sunday extended heartfelt congratulations to the Bangladesh Women's Futsal Team on their historic achievement.In the SAFF Women's Futsal Championship held for the first time, Bangladesh cl...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday imposed a travel ban on Anis Ahmed, the brother of former Army chief General Aziz Ahmed, over graft allegations.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order following an application f...
Bangla Press Desk: Home and Agriculture Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said the government is opposed to granting bail to criminals, not to members of the Awami League or its student wing, Bangladesh Chhatra League.He made th...
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