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: Law enforcers rescued a joint secretary from a hostage situation in a government car, and detained the vehicle’s driver at Agargaon in the capital on Wednesday noon. The driver Abdul Awal, 40, held Planning...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman has said that he plans to return to Bangladesh on 25 December, expressing confidence about his return.Speaking as a guest at a discussion meeting organi...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 4,56,830 Bangladeshi expatriates have so far registered through the Postal Vote BD app to vote in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad Election and the national referendum.Election Commission (EC) released the updated in...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Communications Professionals Society (BCPS) held its day-long Winter Retreat: Comms Edition at CCLUB, Gazipur on 16 December, bringing together around 45 communications professionals from NGOs, brands, a...
Bangla Press Desk: A delegation of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement is set to meet the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) this afternoon to discuss pressing and contemporary election-related issues.The meeting will take place at 4...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called out broker networks as the main obstacle to exporting Bangladeshi labour, urging immediate action to free the sector from middlemen.Speaking at an event on Internationa...
Bangla Press Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui on Tuesday morning paid homage to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing a wreath at ‘Simanta Gaurab’ at the BGB Headquarters...
Bangla Press Desk: The nation is celebrating Victory Day, the most joyous occasion marking the birth of the country, on Tuesday with elaborate programmes in remembrance of the supreme sacrifice of the martyrs.On this glorious day in 1971, Bang...
Bangla Press Desk: On the occasion of Victory Day, a huge influx of people from all walks of life gathered at the National Martyrs’ Memorial in Savar to pay homage to the nation’s heroic sons who laid down their lives for independence.From ear...
Bangla Press Desk: Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and the Ministry of Water Resources and Information and Broadcasting, has said that the upcoming election scheduled to be held in Februa...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh has set a world record by conducting a mass parachuting display in which 54 paratroopers performed a coordinated skydive while carrying national flags, marking 54 years of independence. The unique event was o...
Bangla Press Desk: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Md Kabir, a close associate of Faisal Karim Masud, the main accused in the attempted murder case of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi.Kabir was detained in Narayangan...
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