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: Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said he was not aware of the late-night incident in which journalist Mizanur Rahman Sohel was taken from his home by individuals identifying themselves as memb...
Bangla Press Desk: As the 13th national election approaches, reshuffles have begun across the administration. Officials are receiving new postings, being moved from their current roles, or seeing appointments cancelled shortly after being made...
Bangla Press Desk: Journalist Mizanur Rahman Sohel, who was taken into custody by the Detective Branch (DB) late Tuesday night, has been released after being held for nearly ten and a half hours. In a Facebook post, Mizanur said that DB o...
Bangla Press Desk: Disaster Management and Relief Secretary Md Mostafizur Rahman has said there is no alternative to ensuring the sustainable and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas, stressing that they must ultimately r...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court has ordered the seizure of 162 kathas of land in the capital’s Purbachal Jolsiri Residential Project and other properties registered under 53 deeds belonging to Nassa Group chairman Nazrul Islam Majumder.Dhaka...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered the freezing of 33 bank accounts belonging to former home minister and former chairman of Farmers Bank Limited, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, and his wife Sitara Alamgir over graft and money launder...
Bangla Press Desk: Education Adviser Prof Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar has announced that the interim government is set to finalise the MPO (Monthly Payment Order) enlistment of more than 2,600 educational institutions across the country, including...
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Bangla Press Desk: Chattogram’s decades-old waterlogging crisis – long viewed as an unavoidable threat to lives, property and business – is now projected to be fully resolved by 2027, according to a supervising committee overseeing four major...
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Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Monday said Bangladesh will face future challenges with courage and humility, highlighting that the country is now reengaging with global standards of accountability."With commitment...
Bangla Press Desk: A mob vandalised the residential building of Nadim Hasan, the younger brother of Awami League leader Habib Hasan, at Ahlia area in Uttara, Dhaka on Monday evening.During the attack, the mob also set fire to a microbus of Nadim park...
Bangla Press Desk: The Russian Navy ship, Gremyashchy, arrived at Chattogram Port on Monday on a five-day courtesy visit to Bangladesh.The Chief Staff Officer, on behalf of the Commander of the Chattogram Naval Area, welcomed the ship’s officers and...
Bangla Press Desk: International media outlets are reporting over the verdict with giving utmost importance in the first case against three defendants, including ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, for crimes against humanity committed during...
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