News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Victims were remembered and calls for justice renewed on Friday as the nation observed the 13th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar.The eight-storey building, whic...
Bangla Press Desk: The janaza (funeral prayers) of six Bangladeshi soldiers, who were killed in a terrorist drone attack during a United Nations peacekeeping mission, was held on Sunday at Dhaka Cantonment.The information was confirmed in...
Bangla Press Desk: The body of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi has been transferred from the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases mortuary to the morgue of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.The t...
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Bangla Press Desk: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained seven suspects in connection with the lynching of a Hindu youth in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh, said the Chief Adviser’s press wing.They are Md Limon Sarker, 19, Md Tare...
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has said that a large number of police personnel, along with one thousand body-worn cameras, have been deployed in the capital for janaza of Inqilab Moncho leader Sharif Osman Hadi.Muhammad Taleb...
Bangla Press Desk: Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Bangladesh authorities to take urgent steps to prevent the “mob attacks” that have spread across the country since the Hasina government was ousted last August. It also called o...
Bangla Press Desk: The bodies of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers who were killed in a drone attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission base in Sudan have arrived in Bangladesh. The flight carrying the bodies landed at Hazrat Shahjalal In...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has requested city residents to follow traffic instructions and use alternative routes to ensure smooth traffic management during the janaza of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.Acc...
Bangla Press Desk: Dr Zubaida Rahman, the wife of BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, has departed for London. She left Dhaka on Saturday morning (20 December) at around 8:30am on a Qatar Airways flight.According to the BNP media cell, Zub...
Noman Sabit: Violent protests erupted in several cities across Bangladesh after the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi late on Thursday, with concerns of further unrest ahead of national elections in which he was due to run. Hadi, 32, a spokespe...
Staff Reporter: This year, meritorious students from two universities in Dhaka have received a total of Tk 500,000 in scholarships under the FOBANA Scholarship program. On behalf of the Federation of Bangladeshi Associations in North America (FOBANA)...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has beefed up security across the capital by deploying additional number of army personnel, RAB members, BGB members and policemen at crucial points.Enhanced security measures were spotted in Dhanmondi, K...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said that the attack on the country’s two leading media houses was tantamount to an attack on free media itself.“The attack on the country’s two leading media outlets is tant...
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