News and updates from Bangladesh
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Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister’s Information and Broadcasting Adviser Dr Zahed Ur Rahman said on Tuesday that load-shedding across the country is expected to ease significantly within a short...
Banglapress Online: Tofael Ahmed Joseph, a criminal who rose to infamy in the 1990s, has been freed on presidential mercy. "We freed him after receiving the order on Sunday,” said Md Jahangir Kabir, senior jail superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail...
Banglapress Online: Fitra has been fixed at minimum of Tk 70 per person this year. Islamic Foundation fixed the amount at a meeting chaired by Maulana Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, senior pesh imam of Baitul Mukarram national mosque and president of the...
Banglapress, Dhaka: A Chittagong court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, also younger brother of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, in a defamation case filed...
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.Dumuria Police OC M Habil Hossain said 20 more passengers were also injured in the accident that took place in Atolia on the Khulna-Satkhira road at about 1pm.Quoting passengers, police s...
Banglapress Online:The first Hajj flight of 2018 left Bangladesh for Saudi Arabia with 419 pilgrims aboard on Saturday morning. A total of 126,198 Bangladeshis will be allowed to make the pilgrimage this year, according to the agreement with Saudi A...
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