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: Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was released from jail on Wednesday after being granted bail in all the cases in which he had been shown arrested.Confirming the matter, Khairul’s lawyer Monayem Nabi Khan Sohel sa...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh has rejected "inaccurate figures and contested narratives" in Myanmar's latest statement on the Rohingya crisis and urged Naypyidaw to accelerate the identity verification for their committed repatriation.The conce...
Bangla Press Desk: At least nine people, including a child, have been killed after a fire broke out at a hotel in Kolkata, with all the victims identified as Bangladeshi nationals, NDTV reports.The victims had travelled to Kolkata for medical t...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh reported three more deaths from measles-like symptoms and 1,002 new suspected cases across the country in the last 24 hours until Tuesday 8.00 am. Online newspaper accessThe latest fatalities pushed the cumulative...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh and Qatar on Tuesday agreed to establish joint working groups to deepen bilateral cooperation in the energy and financial sectors following high-level talks in Doha.The decision came during Foreign Minister Dr Khal...
Bangla Press Desk: India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has stressed the need for a meeting with Bangladesh’s prime minister Tarique Rahman, saying direct engagement between the two leaders could help resolve outstanding differences and address...
Bangla Press Desk: The Accelerating and Strengthening Skills for Economic Transformation (ASSET) project, being implemented under the Directorate of Technical Education, has achieved major progress in developing the country's employable skills....
Bangla Press Desk: Investigators are probing what produced lethal levels of hydrogen sulphide inside a ballast tank at the Ferdous Steel shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, with decomposing organic matter emerging as a possible source.Four days aft...
Bangla Press Desk: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs held its first meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Tuesday.Committee Chairman Md Monirul Haque Chowdhury presided over the meeting.Liberation...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 174 Bangladeshi nationals detained for a prolonged period at detention centres in Libya have returned home with the initiative of the Bangladesh Embassy and assistance from the International Organisation for Migrat...
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Bangla Press Desk: Candidates in the country’s 23rd presidential election have until 4pm today (Tuesday) to withdraw their candidacies, after which the Election Commission (EC) will publish the final list.If more than one candidate remains in t...
Bangla Press Desk: Three Bangladeshi universities are moving towards introducing investigative journalism courses for female students after completing a two-part co-design process aimed at developing implementation-ready curricula.The participa...
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