News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) is reportedly divided over a proposal to deploy crocodiles and snakes in unfenced riverine stretches along the Bangladesh border to deter “...
Bangla Press Desk: The government is going to launch an award named after Maherin Chowdhury, a teacher of Milestone School and College, who sacrificed her life to save at least 20 children during a fire caused by a fighter plane crash at th...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered former vice-chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, to be sent to jail over graft allegations related to a special development project at the university....
Bangla Press Desk: Assailants hacked journalist Asaduzzaman Tuhin to death in Gazipur on Thursday night. Tuhin, a staff reporter of the Dainik Pratidiner Kagoj in Gazipur, came under attack at a tea stall in front of the Mosque Market lo...
Bangla Press Desk: Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed has said that enhancing efficiency in asset management across State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and Autonomous Bodies (ABs), which together hold 80% of the government’s assets, could play a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Bridge Authority is painting a special graffiti at both the Mawa and Janjira ends of the Padma Bridge commemorating the July Uprising Day. Guided by Road Transport and Bridges Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kab...
Bangla Press Desk: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has dissolved its existing hall committees at Dhaka University (DU) and announced new convening committees for all units. In a...
Bangla Press Desk: From January-June this year, the US witnessed a modest increase in apparel imports, reaching $38.16 billion globally, reflecting a 6.74% rise from the previous year. Noteworthy changes in the number of units include a...
Bangla Press Desk: National Consensus Commission Vice President Professor Ali Riaz said on Friday that Bangladesh stands at the threshold of a political transformation, citing the 2024 mass uprising as a turning point for reform. He...
Bangla Press desk: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has pushed 18 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, into Bangladesh through two border points in Naogaon’s Dhamoirhat and Sapahar upazilas early Friday morning....
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Road Transport Owners-Workers Coordination Council has called a 72-hour nationwide transport strike from 6:00am on Tuesday (12 August) to 6:00am on Friday (15 August). During this period, all buses a...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media (BJIM) and Mindshaper jointly organised a mental health awareness workshop for journalists titled "Living with Reality" at the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro in the capital on Fr...
Bangla Press Desk: Gazipur appears to be turning into a crime hotspot, with murders, muggings, robberies and extortion now a daily occurrence — often in broad daylight — leaving residents in fear. On Friday morning, police recovered a he...
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