News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni has said Article 70 of the Constitution will apply to the presidential election as well.Citing the article, he said on Tuesday that MPs cannot vote again...
Bangla Press Desk: Victims were remembered and calls for justice renewed on Friday as the nation observed the 13th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar.The eight-storey building, which housed several apparel factories, collapsed due...
Bangla Press Desk: Zamil Ahamed Limon, the Bangladeshi doctoral student who had gone missing alongside another student, has been found dead in the US, bdnews24.com reported citing NBC News.Limon’s body was recovered on Friday morning (local tim...
Bangla Press Desk: Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has warned that no one seeking to undermine stability in Bangladesh will be spared.He made the remarks on Friday morning while speaking to reporters after inaugurating Swaraswati...
Bangla Press Desk: A mild to moderate heatwave is sweeping across 21 districts, while rain clouds are building over northeastern Bangladesh, the Met Office says.In a special warning issued on Friday, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BM...
Bangla Press Desk: Another child has died with measles-like symptoms at Sylhet’s MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, taking the number of such deaths at the facility to seven.The child, 10-year-old Arif, died around 10am on Friday while underg...
Bangla Press Desk: Four elected leaders of the Jagannath University Central Students’ Union (JnUCSU) have accused Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) of exploiting the student body as a tool to further its political agenda.They have also accused ICS, t...
Bangla Press Desk: A major controversy has emerged in Bangladesh cricket following allegations that the country’s decision to withdraw from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup was influenced by a hardline stance taken by interim government adviser Asif...
Bangla Press Desk: A new chapter in the recognition of Bengali heritage has begun as the New York State Senate adopted a significant resolution calling for April 14 to be officially declared as "Bangla New Year Day".The resolution, adopted on A...
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Bangla Press Desk: City-dwellers brace for greater power outage as the government decides to go for a trial 110-megawatt load-shedding in the capital for uninterrupted electricity supply for irrigation in rural areas amid nationwide heatwave an...
Bangla Press Desk: The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday instructed all the government hospitals not to refuse patients with measles or measles-like symptoms due to bed shortage.The instruction came as some public...
Bangla Press Desk: India’s Border Security Force (BSF) is reportedly divided over a proposal to deploy crocodiles and snakes in unfenced riverine stretches along the Bangladesh border to deter “infiltration and smuggling”.Many senior BSF offici...
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Bangla Press Desk: Electricity generation at the Barapukuria Thermal Power Plant in Dinajpur has come to a complete halt from Wednesday night after a mechanical fault shut down its last operational unit, officials said.According to plant source...
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