News and updates from Bangladesh
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, whic...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday set 20 May for submitting the probe report in a graft case against former lawmaker and cricketer Shakib Al Hasan and 14 others over the alleged stock-market manipulation, illegal transactions an...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has directed the immediate removal of banners and billboards displayed across the capital congratulating him and featuring his photograph.Prime Minister’s Additional Press Secretary Atikur...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman would launch the trial distribution of Family Cards at Korail slum in the capital on 10 March, said Social Welfare Minister AZM Zahid Hossain on Tuesday.Previously the inauguration of distributio...
Bangla Press Desk: In a gesture of compassion and solidarity during the holy month of Ramadan, the people of Türkiye extended food assistance to orphan students in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi through the Orphan Love Foundation (OLF).A to...
vBangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered that Awami League presidium member Kazi Zafarullah be shown as arrested in a graft case.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order following a petition filed by the...
Bangla Press Desk: The Students Against Discrimination (SAD) on Tuesday demanded that the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) clarify its position regarding a writ petition that challenges the July National Charter and related reform proc...
Bangla Press Desk: Dhaka University celebrated the historic Flag Hoisting Day on Monday morning at the Battala premises adjacent to the Arts Building, recalling the momentous raising of the national flag on 2 March 1971 and renewing its pledge...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the seizure of a flat worth Tk4.20 crore belonging to Syeda Afroza Begum, former additional secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and wife of former Senior Secretary of the Ministry of...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the submission of the probe report by 15 April in a case filed over the death of actor Zaher Alvi’s wife, Afra Ibnat Ikra, whose hanging body was recovered from their Mirpur residence in the ca...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said the government has verbally and formally offered the post of Deputy Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad to the main opposition party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, in keeping with the spi...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday placed accused Shaheen Alam on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing and dismemberment of his roommate, Mohammad Obaidullah, into seven pieces.The court of Dhaka Additional Chief Metropoli...
Bangla Press Desk: The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has set the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for consumers for the month of March, keeping it unchanged from February.The announcement was made on Monday, with the new...
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