News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Transactions at Sonali Bank and Standard Islami Bank will be temporarily suspended to facilitate updates to their core banking system software and databases. The Bangladesh Bank ann...
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Bangla Press Desk: The United Nations has said it will not deploy election observers to Bangladesh’s upcoming national parliamentary election scheduled for February 12, citing the absence of a formal mandate from its governing bodies.Resp...
Bangla Press Desk: A delegation from the European Union (EU) held a meeting with BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman to discuss issues related to ensuring a free, fair and credible upcoming national parliamentary election in Bangladesh.The meeti...
Bangla Press Desk: Jagannath University authorities have suspended vote counting for the student union elections due to technical faults in the OMR machines.Election officials started vote counting around 6pm on Tuesday, three hours after...
Bangla Press Desk: Former Bangladeshi diplomat M Humayun Kabir has said that, given the current political and diplomatic realities between Bangladesh and India, the government should avoid unnecessary controversies and concentrate fully on the...
Bangla Press Desk: The Planning Commission has finalised an Annual Development Programme (ADP) worth Tk2 trillion after cutting Tk300 billion. The biggest reductions—up to 74 per cent—have been made in the health and social protection sectors....
Bangla Press Desk: July Uprising’s active participant Tahrima Jannat Surovi has finally secured bail in an extortion case, which has been allegedly filed to “humiliate and dehumanise” her.The Students Against Discrimination, which led the anti-...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 41 aspiring candidates have appealed to the Election Commission (EC) against the returning officers' decisions regarding the cancellation of their nominations, while one has filed an appeal against the acceptance o...
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Bangla Press Desk: BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday said that the country’s existence could not be imagined without 1971.“The Liberation War is the foundation of Bangladesh as a state and its politics. The country's very existence c...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s Election Commission has asked political parties and candidates not to conduct any electoral campaign before the symbol allocation for the upcoming national election scheduled to be held on 12 February.“No politic...
Bangla Press Desk: Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq-e-Azam on Monday said identities of eight July uprising martyrs who were buried at Rayerbazar Graveyard as unidentified have been confirmed through DNA test.Both local and internati...
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Bangla Press Desk: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday reaffirmed the interim government's firm commitment to ensuring peace, public order, and a secure environment ahead of the upcoming 13th national elections."We a...
Bangla Press Desk: The testimony in a case against 18 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her nieces Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq, over alleged irregularities in allocating a plot in the RAJUK New Town Project, has en...
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