News and updates from Bangladesh
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Bangla Press Desk: The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection has fined 120 establishments across 46 districts a total of Tk 9,93,200 following market inspections targeting essential commo...
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Bangla Press Desk: Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon on Tuesday said the government has a proposal to appoint an office assistant in every government primary school, as the absence of such support staff currently burdens teachers...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s school textbooks for the year 2027 will revisit the July Uprising, the “mass killings” and key episodes from Sheikh Hasina’s rule, parliament has heard.Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon revealed the plan...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has set a target of generating at least 20 percent of the country’s total electricity from renewable sources by 2030, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Aninda Islam Amit told Parliament on...
Bangla Press Desk: The soft opening of the third terminal at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) is expected to take place on December 16 this year.Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M. Rashiduzzaman Millat said on Tuesday, after phy...
Bangla Press Desk: The 11th BAPA FoodPro International Expo 2026 is set to begin on Thursday at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the capital and will run through 12 September.The exhibition is focused on food processing a...
Bangla Press Desk: The third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka will be partially opened on 16 December, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M Rashiduzzaman Millat said on Tuesday.Initially, one or two flights will be o...
Bangla Press Desk: The incumbent government, led by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, has planned to develop about 45 lakh illiterate population, who were deprived of formal education, with life-oriented and technical skills by 2031.The Bureau of...
Bangla Press Desk: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi on Monday expressed optimism that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman would pay a visit to India at the right time, stressing that the Prime Minister knows about the standing invitati...
Bangla Press Desk: Ahead of the opening of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday met with Dr Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh, President-elect of UNGA 81, in New York.U...
Bangla Press Desk: They were all Indian nationals, but they arrived in Bangladesh from Thailand. When airport officials searched them, they found Thai baht, Indian rupees, US dollars -- and kush, a drug still relatively unfamiliar in Bangladesh.In Ju...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has approved six months of duty and tax relief on imports of equipment and parts for solar power plants to boost renewable energy development.The decision was approved at the cabinet’s 20th meeting, held at the parli...
Bangla Press Desk: The government Monday rolled out a slew of measures to address the energy and power crises that has virtually crippled the country, especially affecting productive and business activities, as parliament took up the problem.Some of...
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