News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: AmCham Bangladesh deeply mourns the passing of Dr Forrest E. Cookson, former President of AmCham Bangladesh.He passed away last night while undergoing treatment at United Hosp...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered to send actor Siddiqur Rahman alias Siddique A to jail in a case filed for an attempt to kill a rickshaw-van driver Abdul Jabbar Howlader during last year’s student-led July-August M...
Bangla Press Desk: Amid the escalating tensions over the India-Pakistan war, Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that the country’s bordering areas are completely secured and there is no cause to be afraid....
Bangla Press Desk: The interim government has come under heavy criticism after former President Md Abdul Hamid – accused in a case related to a deadly crackdown during the July 2024 uprising – quietly left the country for Thailand witho...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has praised the positive outlook of political parties on reforms. He praised the political parties’ attitude towards reforms at a National Consensus Commission meeting held under h...
Bangla Press Desk: Three advisers to the interim government on Thursday visited the Third Terminal of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka to assess the progress in construction work of the country's largest aviati...
Staff Reporter: The Bangladesh Awami League has been banned by the interim government. The decision was made during an emergency meeting held at 8 p.m. Saturday at the state guesthouse Jamuna, presided over by Chief Advisor Dr. Muhammad...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has praised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif for they agreed to a ceasefire after days of deadly attacks between the countrie...
Bangla Press Desk: At least 10 were people killed, including a child, and four were injured in separate incidents of lightning strikes in open fields across Kishoreganj, Brahmanbaria, Naogaon and Habiganj districts on Sunday. In Kis...
Bangla Press Desk: A three-member high-level probe body has been formed to look into the departure of former president Md Abdul Hamid. Education Adviser Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar will lead the committee, while two other members are Env...
Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission (EC) on Monday night suspended the registration of Awami League as a political party, hours after the government issued a notification in this regard. EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed confir...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief adviser’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Monday said that chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus did not have any property of his own. ‘So far as I know, he (Yunus) doesn’t have any property of his own. He...
Bangla Press Desk: Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Md Jahangir Alam, director of Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Project, for suspicious transactions of Tk 127 crore through 94 accounts in vario...
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