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: Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman left for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday on his maiden foreign tour since assuming office to attend an OIC Foreign Ministers-level meeting in Jeddah on the situation in the occupied Palestinian...
Bangla Press Desk: The government on Wednesday appointed Md Mostaqur Rahman as the new Governor of Bangladesh Bank, cancelling the remaining tenure of Dr Ahsan H Mansur with immediate effect.The appointment was confirmed through a gazette notif...
Bangla Press Desk: The BNP-led government under Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has launched a sweeping drive to overhaul the public administration, tighten office discipline and curb batch-based politics within the civil service, officials...
Bangla Press Desk: At the start of the holy month of Ramadan, the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has launched its “truck sale” program nationwide, offering essential commodities at subsidised prices.Under the initiative, consumer...
Bangla Press Desk: Dalda kept at a bakery for preparing various food items was found to contain a dead rat floating inside. The same Dalda was being used to produce a range of savoury snacks. Officials from the Directorate of National Con...
Bangla Press Desk: Ali Hossain Fakir, the newly appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP), officially assumed his duties on Wednesday morning.He took over the responsibility at Police Headquarters succeeding his predecessor.Earlier, the...
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Bangla Press Desk: The government has constituted the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), the country’s highest body for approving public investment projects, with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman as its chairman.The comm...
Bangla Press Desk: The police have closed four personnel for beating up journalists and Dhaka University (DU) students while conducting an anti-narcotics drive at the Suhrawardy Uddyan on Monday night.Authorities are trying to identify two-thre...
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Bangla Press Desk: The government will begin distributing ‘Family Card’ on a pilot basis in 14 upazilas from 10 March, with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman set to inaugurate the programme.Tk2,500 will be given to the women in financial assistance...
Bangla Press Desk: The government on Tuesday appointed Ali Hossain Fakir as the inspector general of police (IGP).He was promoted from the rank of additional IGP, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.Ali Hossain Fa...
Bangla Press Desk: Former secretary Md Sarwar Alam has been reappointed as press secretary to the president on a contractual basis for one year.The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday.The appointmen...
Bangla Press Desk: Newly elected lawmaker Nurul Amin of the Chattogram-1 (Mirsharai) constituency was injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway while returning from Cumilla on Tuesday afternoon. He was initially rushed to...
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