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 Bangladesh Health Reporters Forum (BHRF), an organisation of journalists covering the country’s health sector, on Friday got a new body for the 2025–2027 term, with senior journalist Pratik Ejaj and Senior Correspon...
Bangla Press Desk: Overseas Correspondents Association Bangladesh (OCAB), a platform representing international media based in Dhaka, on Friday strongly condemned the attacks against journalists, editors, and media outlets carried out on...
Bangla Press Desk: A fire erupted at the Dhaka office of the Udichi Shilpigosthi after Friday evening, amid a tense situation in the capital over protests against the killing of July Uprising participant Osman Hadi.Locals said a group of...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has received a travel pass to return to Bangladesh.He applied for the document at the Bangladesh High Commission in London on Thursday (18 Dec), aiming to return to the country on 25 D...
Bangla Press Desk: The National Press Club has “strongly condemned” the overnight attacks on the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star on Friday.Press Club President Hasan Hafiz and General Secretary Ayub Bhuiyan protests the incident...
Bangla Press Desk: Around 345 undocumented migrants returned to the country from Libya on Friday, said a foreign ministry press release.It was not clear whether they were held in Libyan detention centres for illegal migrants.They sought t...
Bangla Press Desk: Students and members of the public began gathering at Shahbagh in the capital on Friday morning to protest the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a frontline organiser of the July mass uprising and spokesperson of Inqilab Monc...
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Bangla Press Desk: A group of unruly people set fire to the building of cultural organisation Chhayanaut in the capital’s Dhanmondi area in the early hours of Friday as violence spread in the country over the death of Inqilab Moncho spoke...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman has expressed condolences on the death of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.In his Facebook page on Thursday night, “deeply saddened” Tarique wrote, “This untimely death is a gra...
Bangla Press Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman expressed profound sorrow over the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inqilab Moncho and a steadfast July activist, in a condolence statement on Thursday.In the statement, the am...
The government will observe state mourning on Saturday following the death of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi. Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus made the announcement on Thursday night while addressing the nation, about an hour af...
Bangla Press Desk: The body of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi is likely to arrive in Bangladesh from Singapore on Friday evening.A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the body is scheduled to depart Sing...
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