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: National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has said that Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi struggled to build the country by dismantling hegemony.“Those who are now attempting to divert the protests i...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has said the government will take responsibility for the wife and only child of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi, who passed away on Thursday night while undergoing treatme...
Bangla Press Desk: A journalist was shot dead and another person injured when armed assailants opened fire at a tea stall in the Sholua Bazar area under Aranghata Police Station of Khulna city on Thursday night.The deceased was Emdadul Ha...
Bangla Press Desk: A house belonging to Awami League’s former education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury Nowfel was set on fire in Chattogram city on Thursday night amid protests over the killing of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Os...
Bangla Press Desk: Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across Bangladesh following the death of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi, a fearless frontline fighter of the July Uprising.Blocking key points in Dhaka, C...
Staff Reporter: Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson of Inkilab Mancha, has passed away while undergoing treatment in Singapore. A Foreign Ministry official involved in overseeing his medical care in Singapore confirmed the matter to the media around 10 p...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have recovered the hanging body of a female leader of National Citizen Party (NCP) from a hostel in the Jigatala area of Dhaka’s Hazaribagh on Thursday (18 December) morning. The deceased was identified as Jannat...
Bangla Press Desk: The prosecution has filed formal charges with the International Crimes Tribunal-2 against Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, along with six other leaders of the party and its affiliated organisations, in a c...
Noman Sabit: Bangladeshis living abroad must remit at least $100,000 to the country in a single year to qualify for Commercially Important Person (CIP) status. For any given year of selection, a specified number of non-resident Bangladeshis who legal...
Bangla Press Desk: Election Commission (EC) Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said an agreement has been signed among the EC, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union (EU) for monitoring the forthcoming election scheduled on 12 Februa...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday said that the police must arrest Awami League’s “criminals” whenever they are spotted even if no lawsuit is found against them.If certain police personnel...
Bangla Press Desk: Domestic worker Ayesha on Wednesday confessed to the killing of a woman and her daughter in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam recorded her statement and ordered her to be...
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