News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The High Court on Thursday disposed of a record 2,425 long-pending cases in a single day following the step taken to reduce the case backlogs.The criminal motion benches of t...
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Bangla Press Desk: Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday expressed optimism that the upcoming parliamentary election, scheduled for 12 February, will be held in a fair and peaceful manner, and voter turnout to cross 55%.He expressed the...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 157,798 expatriate ballots cast via the “Postal Vote BD” mobile app for the 13th National Parliamentary Election and the Referendum have so far arrived in Bangladesh. Meanwhile, 461,604 overseas voters have a...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on Sunday set 5 February for pronouncing its verdict in a crimes against humanity case filed over the killing of seven youths and the subsequent burning of six of their bodies i...
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Bangla Press Desk: Prof Ali Riaz, special assistant to the chief adviser, urged citizens to vote ‘yes’ in the upcoming referendum, saying the July Charter aims to prevent any future authoritarian rule in Bangladesh.Speaking at a discussio...
Bangla Press Desk: The railway authorities have suspended three railway employees on allegations of allowing passengers to travel by train in exchange of money.The suspension order was issued on Saturday, according to the Railways Ministr...
Bangla Press Desk: A large group of government employees has announced new demonstrations to press home their demand for an improved pay structure.They have also “categorically rejected” the government’s push to shift the responsibility of app...
Bangla Press Desk: The Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) on Saturday banned all forms of gatherings, except elections campaigns, in and around the sea port area for one month amid ongoing protests by a section of port workers against foreign...
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Bangla Press Desk: As the month of the Language Movement begins today (Sunday), the country’s people will pay tributes to the valiant sons of the soil who were killed during the Language Movement in February 1952.The Bengali nation achieved th...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has rejected a recent report published in a national daily about the government’s decision to build 9,030 square feet flats for ministers, including swimming pools and other facilities, describing it as baseles...
Bangla Press Desk: The authorities have withdrawn the concerned upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and officer-in-charge of police station following a deadly clash between BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami in Jhenaigati upazila of Sherpur on Wednesday.Electio...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Thursday imposed a travel ban on Additional Commissioner and First Secretary of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Tarek Hasan.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Sabbir Faiz passed the order follo...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Thursday set 3 February for the submission of the probe report in the murder case of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam set the new date...
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