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...
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Bangla Press Desk: Fire service teams continue to work to rescue two-year-old child Sajid, who fell into an abandoned deep well in Tanore upazila of Rajshahi. Firefighters have already dug a 40-foot-deep pit beside the original well using three...
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Bangla Press Desk: Four Bangladeshi content creators and influencers received the Gender-Sensitive Content Award 2025 on Wednesday night for promoting positive gender narratives and raising awareness about equality and social issues. The awards...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s vast economy—where women make up most of the 85% working in informal and marginalised formal systems—took centre stage in Dhaka on Wednesday as women from domestic work, tea gardens, fisheries and home-based read...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Wednesday scheduled 17 December for the charge-framing hearing in two crimes against humanity cases involving four senior figures of the Awami League regime, including ousted prime m...
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Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered former Awami League lawmaker Sabina Akter Tuhin to be shown arrested in two separate murder cases linked to the July uprising.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Alam passed the order follo...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Justice (CJ) Syed Refaat Ahmed will inaugurate the Supreme Court Secretariat on Thursday afternoon.The inauguration ceremony will be held at 2:30pm at Administrative Building-4 of the Supreme Court (SC) premises.Md Shaf...
Bangla Press Desk: The German government is ready to provide all possible assistance for strengthening the judiciary and judicial independence in Bangladesh, Ambassador Dr Rüdiger Lotz said during a meeting with Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed...
Bangla Press Desk: The medical treatment of BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia will continue at home for the time being, her medical board has confirmed.They also stated that her overall condition remains largely unchanged as...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 292,788 expatriate Bangladeshis have so far registered for the country's first-ever postal voting system, enabling those living abroad to cast their ballots in the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad election and th...
Bangla Press Desk: Claiming that the election season is already underway across the country, Religious Affairs Adviser Dr AFM Khalid Hossain on Wednesday said the upcoming national election will be held in a festive, fair and inclusive ma...
Bangla Press Desk: Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain has said that there is nothing Bangladesh can do if India is unwilling to send back the ousted authoritarian ruler Sheikh Hasina.He made the remark on Wednesday while responding...
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Bangla Press Desk: “There is no law that allows a river to be leased for fish farming. Perhaps the leasing began under pressure from influential people, and it has continued since.”— Jahangir Selim, Member, Jamalpur River Protection Commi...
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