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: Bangladesh and Germany signed two separate loan agreements worth 160 million euros for a project titled “Climate Change Adapted Drinking Water Resources Management Dhaka II (Saidabad WTP Phase III)” at the Economic Relations Divisi...
Bangla Press Desk: Teachers of seven government colleges in the capital have threatened that they would observe indefinite work abstention if their demands are ignored in the upcoming ordinance on combining the colleges.They issued the threat at a pr...
Bangla Press Desk: The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) under the Ministry of Commerce yesterday fined Lazz Pharma Tk2 lakh for marketing and selling counterfeit medicines in Tangail.A DNCRP team, led by its Tan...
Bangla Press Desk: Law enforcement agencies have taken heightened security measures in the capital ahead of today's verdict in a case against 17 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and niece Tu...
Bangla Press Desk: The nation is set to celebrate the Month of Victory with much festivity and enthusiasm amid a series of programmes throughout December beginning today.On December 16, 1971, Bangladesh was liberated from the Pakistani o...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to five years imprisonment, her sister Sheikh Rehana to seven and Rehana's daughter Tulip Rizwana Siddiq to two years imprisonment over the Purbacha...
Bangla Press Desk: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 10 gold bars weighing 1.166 kg and arrested two individuals from the Bajitpur border area of the sadar upazila on Sunday afternoon.The estimated market value of the seized...
.jpeg)
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka University (DU) administration has organised a special prayer mahfil praying for the early recovery of former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.The doa mahfil, held after Zohar on Sunday at the Nabab Na...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered the freezing of 121 bank accounts, three mobile financial service (MFS) accounts and three beneficiary owner’s (BO) accounts belonging to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s cousin and former...
Bangla Press Desk: A 52-year-old journalist was killed when an unidentified vehicle hit his motorbike on Khilgaon Flyover in the capital on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Zahir Bhuiyan, sports reporter of Daily Vorer Pata and son of Sham...
.jpeg)
Bangla Press Desk: The National Independent Investigation Commission formed to probe the 2009 BDR mutiny and subsequent killings submitted its final report to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday at the state guesthouse Jamuna.The r...
-692bc179009c6.jpg)
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Bank’s Green Transformation Fund (GTF), established to promote environmentally friendly technologies and equipment in the industrial sector, is facing serious setbacks. Despite a two-tiered security system, l...
E-paper