News and updates from Bangladesh
BanglaPress Desk: Police have recovered the belongings—including a laptop and a camera—of German tourist Cyril Lander-Weber, which had gone missing at Natore Railway Station during his visit to Bangla...
Bangla Press Desk: The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested two men over the death of teacher Ranjila Parveen during a purse-snatching incident in Dhaka, saying three suspects previously arrested by RAB over th...
Bangla Press Desk: Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC Concerned Customers’ Forum and a group of dismissed bank employees staged separate demonstrations in Motijheel and Jatiya Press Club area to press home their respective demands.Demonstrators f...
Bangla Press Desk: Australian non-profit organisation VoteGuard International has established a cloud-based virtual office using Microsoft 365 services to support its global operations.The Australian-registered non-profit has secured free acces...
Bangla Press Desk: Three children drowned in separate incidents in Faridganj and Hajiganj upazilas of Chandpur on Tuesday.In Faridganj, A Rahman, 3-year old son of school teacher Abdul Kader of Sokdirampur village, drowned in a pond beside his father...
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Bangla Press Desk: The government’s new incentive for individual taxpayers to file income tax returns in the first quarter of the tax year has so far drawn 631,000 online filings, according to the National Board of Revenue.The NBR introduced the new...
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Bangla Press Desk: The hanging body of a Jagannath University student has been recovered by his classmates from a student residence in Dhaka's Chankhanpul.The young man, named Anik Chandra Pal, was a student in the 2024-25 academic year at the Depart...
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Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited has carried out an eviction drive against illegal structures, unauthorised installations and makeshift shops at the Karwan Bazar and Farmgate metro rail stations.The drive was conducted...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka University unit of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) staged a demonstration on the campus on Tuesday night protesting several crude bomb explosions.Around 11:30pm, JCD leaders and activists marched through the c...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh has recorded seven more dengue deaths in a 24-hour count, alongside 1,593 hospitalisations across the country.The government’s death toll has now reached 164 this year, including 67 deaths in September -- the highe...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said the schedule for the local government elections announced by the Election Commission (EC) is merely a tentative plan, not a final decision.“Local government elections are g...
Bangla Press Desk: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued more than 2.9 million Apostille certificates since the launch of Bangladesh’s e-Apostille service on March 30, 2025.The certificates cover documents related to education, polic...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh on Tuesday repatriated 168 nationals detained at a centre in Benghazi, Libya, as part of ongoing efforts to bring home Bangladeshis stranded or held in the North African country.The returnees, who had been held at...
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