News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Five more children died in the past 24 hours till Wednesday morning—four from measles-related symptoms and one from a confirmed measles case.In addition, Bangladesh recorded 9...
Bangla Press Desk: Train services on the Dhaka–Sylhet–Chattogram route were suspended for nearly five and a half hours after a coach of the Dhaka Mail-2 (down) train, traveling from Dhaka to Chattogram, derailed at Bhairab Bazar Junction in Ki...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has taken a policy decision to provide cash incentives to non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to increase foreign direct investment (FDI). If the expatriates help bring FDI to the country, they will get a certain...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 10 journalists were injured in a violent attack by local miscreants in front of Dream Holiday Park at Madhabdi in Narsingdi on Monday evening. The journalists are the members of the Crime Reporters Association o...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has approved a policy decision to provide a 20% rebate on electricity bills for marginal-level fish farms, hatcheries, and livestock and poultry farms, aiming to reduce production costs and boost output in the...
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka University (DU) administration has issued a show-cause notice to Sarbamitra Chakma, who resigned from DUCSU on Monday, over an incident in which teenagers were made to do sit-ups by holding their ears at the univers...
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Bangla Press Desk: A 15-week Chinese Language Training Course for the officials of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA), Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) and Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) was inaug...
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Bangla Press Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized various smuggled goods worth over Tk19.08b during operations conducted across border areas and other parts of the country last year.The para-military force carried out anti-smuggling...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal has sentenced three people, including former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman, to death in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of six people, including Anas,...
Bangla Press Desk: Operations at the Rampal Thermal Power Plant remain stable and normal, according to Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL).In a statement issued on Monday (26 January), BIFPCL Managing Director R. Sarangpani sai...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 is scheduled to pronounce its judgment today in a case filed over crimes against humanity committed in the city's Chankharpul area on 5 August 2024, when six people were brutally killed.ICT...
Bangla Press Desk: The recent rescue of a Royal Bengal Tiger after it was caught in a deer snare has once again drawn attention to rampant poaching and the widespread use of deadly traps deep inside the Sundarbans, posing a growing threat to the fore...
Bangla Press Desk: Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday said the government is moving away from financing large-scale development projects through foreign loans and stressed the need for avoiding a “debt trap”.“We do not want to take lo...
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