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: Eleven Jamaat-e-Islami MPs have moved the High Court challenging a government decision to assign ministers, state ministers and parliamentary whips responsibility for overseeing and coordinating activities in different districts.Th...
Bangla Press Desk: A Chattogram court has ordered GK Shamim, a controversial contractor for government projects, to stand trial in an Anti-Corruption Commission case over alleged fraud in securing a Tk 750 million construction contract at Chittagong...
Bangla Press Desk: Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has said government collaboration with NGOs is crucial for effectively delivery of public services to the people.He said this at a program on post-flood rehabilitation efforts at Chatto...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh Railway's long-delayed plan to electrify its tracks is finally moving forward, with the country's first electric traction project on the Narayanganj-Dhaka-Joydebpur corridor likely to receive approval soon.Official...
Bangla Press Desk: Three young men were killed as a bus crashed into their motorcycle in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur on Saturday night.The deceased were identified as Chayan, 23, son of Enayet; Nayan, 20, son of Dalil Uddin; and Siam alias Sajib...
Bangla Press Desk: A female garment worker was killed after being hit by a battery-powered rickshaw in the capital’s Shyampur area early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Dina Begum, 34, daughter of Abdul Quader of the Tagarpar area under F...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury on Sunday administered the oath to newly appointed judge of the Appellate Division Justice Md Habibul Gani.The oath-taking ceremony, conducted by Registrar General Mohammad Habibur Rahma...
Bangla Press Desk: Civil society organisations have called for a clear roadmap to protect human rights from the growing impacts of climate change in Bangladesh, stressing the need for stronger institutional coordination, systematic monitoring a...
Bangla Press Desk: The Kaptai dam in Rangamati has been opened to ease pressure from rising water in the lake.All 16 gates were opened 6 inches each at 8:20pm on Saturday, releasing 9,000 cusecs of water per second into the Karnaphuli River.Kar...
Bangla Press Desk: The increasing number of dengue infections in the country is feared to rise further in September while the dengue season might prolong until the end of October this year, said entomologists.The number of the dengue patients i...
Bangla Press Desk: Emergency repairs to a bridge in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon have caused a traffic jam stretching around 40km along the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway, leaving travellers facing hours of disruption.The congestion began on Friday after...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday handed over job appointment letters to members of the families of victims of enforced disappearances and killings, as well as families of martyrs of the July mass uprising. The...
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