News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, commemorating the birth and death anniversary of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), will be observed across the country on 26 August with due religiou...
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Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission has extended the deadline until 31 December for local election observer organisations to apply for deploying their observers in the upcoming 13th parliamentary election and referendum.According t...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday alleged that the defence is attempting to mislead the tribunal by filing repeated petitions in a bid to delay the judicial proce...
Bangla Press Desk: Two siblings have died in the capital’s Hatirjheel area, with police suspecting food poisoning as the preliminary cause of death.The incident took place in the Wireless Mor area under Hatirjheel Police Station. Th...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have arrested the main suspect, Israt Raihan Omi, on allegations of issuing death threats on social media against Abdul Hannan Masud, joint chief coordinator of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and the party’s ca...
Bangla Press Desk: Safe drinking water, a basic necessity of daily life, has transformed living conditions for low-income communities in Cumilla City Corporation through an initiative by The Coca-Cola Foundation and Water & Sanitation...
Bangla Press Desk: Even more than a decade after winning its maritime boundary, Bangladesh has failed to achieve any notable success in oil and gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal. While neighbouring India, Pakistan and Myanmar have move...
Bangla Press Desk: The janaza (funeral prayers) of six Bangladeshi soldiers, who were killed in a terrorist drone attack during a United Nations peacekeeping mission, was held on Sunday at Dhaka Cantonment.The information was confirmed in...
Bangla Press Desk: The body of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi has been transferred from the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases mortuary to the morgue of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.The t...
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Bangla Press Desk: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained seven suspects in connection with the lynching of a Hindu youth in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh, said the Chief Adviser’s press wing.They are Md Limon Sarker, 19, Md Tare...
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has said that a large number of police personnel, along with one thousand body-worn cameras, have been deployed in the capital for janaza of Inqilab Moncho leader Sharif Osman Hadi.Muhammad Taleb...
Bangla Press Desk: Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Bangladesh authorities to take urgent steps to prevent the “mob attacks” that have spread across the country since the Hasina government was ousted last August. It also called o...
Bangla Press Desk: The bodies of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers who were killed in a drone attack on a United Nations peacekeeping mission base in Sudan have arrived in Bangladesh. The flight carrying the bodies landed at Hazrat Shahjalal In...
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