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: Vehicular movement has remained restricted since 8am on Wednesday in several areas of Dhaka for the state funeral rites of former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, according to the Inter-Services Public Re...
Bangla Press Desk: Several foreign ministers, special envoys and senior representatives from different countries are arriving in Dhaka to pay their last respects to former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and to attend her n...
Bangla Press Desk: A special meeting of the Advisory Council was held on Tuesday at the state guest house Jamuna, chaired by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, to mourn the death of Begum Khaleda Zia, the three-time former Prime Mini...
Bangla Press Desk: Preparations are under way to bury former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia beside her husband, late president Ziaur Rahman, at Zia Udyan in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.Party sources said work was seen progressing...
Bangla Press Desk: Khaleda Zia, who has died at the age of 80, was Bangladesh's first female prime minister.Her husband, Ziaur Rahman, a leading figure in the country's struggle for independence, was president in 1977. At the time, Khaled...
Bangla Press Desk: Sayem Sobhan Anvir, Chairman of Anvir Bashundhara Group (ABG), has expressed deep shock and sorrow over the death of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia (Inna Lillahi Wa innah Ilayhi raji’un).In...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will observe a seven-day period of mourning following the death of its Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia.The party announced that details regarding her janaza...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has expressed deep sorrow at the death of Begum Khaleda Zia, three-time former Prime Minister, symbol of the democratic movement, and Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Part...
Staff Reporter: BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has passed away. She breathed her last at 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday (December 30), shortly after the Fajr prayer, while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital. (Indeed, we belong to Allah...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka-bound intercity train derailed in the early hours of Monday after miscreants removed a section of railway track in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh, disrupting rail communication on the Dhaka–Mymensingh route.The...
Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission (EC) has dispatched postal ballot papers to 376,309 Bangladeshi expatriate voters in different countries over the past 10 days, enabling them to participate in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election an...
Bangla Press Desk: The Social Welfare Club of International Standard University (ISU) distributed winter clothes and blankets among cold-hit people in Kazipur upazila of Sirajganj on December 27, 2025.The distribution took place at Kazipur Al-J...
E-paper