News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The members of parliament (MP) can show respect to the Speaker’s chair in line with their respective religious customs, said Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad on Thursday.The lawmakers are...
Bangla Press Desk: As major political parties prepare to unveil their election manifestos, law enforcement experts and rights activists have urged them to place law and order at the centre of their pledges, stressing the need to keep the police free...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 1,981 candidates are contesting the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election across 298 constituencies, according to official figures released by the Election Commission.Of the total candidates, 1,732 are nominated by 51 registered...
Bangla Press Desk: Symbols for contesting candidates in the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections will be allotted today across constituencies.According to the Election Commission (EC), a total of 305 candidates withdrew their nomination...
Bangla Press Desk: The interim government has formally inaugurated a digital bail bond system, known as e-bail bond, replacing the traditional bail bond submission process in a move aimed at modernising the justice system and reducing public s...
Bangla Press Desk: Abul Kalam Azad, a fugitive sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, surrendered to the International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday morning.Azad, who remained at large for over a decade,...
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Bangla Press Desk: Zaima Rahman has underscored the importance of security—particularly for women—as a defining challenge for Bangladesh, saying it remains the most striking difference between living in London and living in Dhaka.In a Facebook...
Bangla Press Desk: The figure is expected to rise further once the candidates from Pabna-1 and Pabna-2 are finalised. The last date for withdrawal in those two constituencies was extended to January 26, following a legal battle over the delimit...
Bangla Press Desk: A wave of sorrow swept through Alipur village in Cumilla’s Adarsha Sadar upazila as family members, relatives, and neighbours were left in shock following the killing of RAB officer Motaleb Hossain.Motaleb, Deputy Assistant D...
Bangla Press Desk: A high-level stakeholder consultation meeting was held on Tuesday on deploying the “advanced, short-term BPaL/M treatment regimen” for accelerating the eradication of tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) in Dhaka S...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday inspected the progress of the final phase work of the July Uprising Memorial Museum at the Ganabhaban, residence of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.The chief adviser arrived at the museum arou...
Bangla Press Desk: The government is providing Tk1 crore to the family of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Bin Hadi to purchase a flat in Dhaka.According to sources at the Ministry of Finance, the special grant will be used to buy and f...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi publishers will not be able to participate in the International Kolkata Book Fair this year either, with organisers refusing to allow Bangladesh to join the event.This marks the second consecutive year that there...
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