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: Journalist Anis Alamgir has been imprisoned for criticising the government and has remained behind bars for the past two months. He was picked up from a gym in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, on 14 December last year and later shown...
Bangla Press Desk: President Mohammed Shahabuddin will administer the oath of office to the members of the new cabinet on Tuesday afternoon. The oath-taking ceremony will be held at 4:00pm at the South Plaza of the Parliament building.Kan...
Bangla Press Desk: Forty-five government vehicles have been kept ready at the Secretariat for ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers-to-be.Officials concerned said according to the Cabinet Division’s requirements, the vehicles were arr...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have recovered the throat-slit bodies of a woman and two children from a house in Homna upazila of Cumilla on Tuesday morning.The deceased were identified as Sukhi Akter, 25, wife of Saudi expatriate Zahirul Isla...
Bangla Press Desk: Tarique Rahman has been unanimously elected as the Leader of the House and Prime Minister by the Members of Parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).The parliamentary party meeting of BNP was held at 11:30 am af...
Bangla Press Desk: Five of the eight parliamentary constituencies in Tangail district have elected new faces in the 13th National Parliament election, with the winners set to take oath as Members of Parliament (MPs) for the first time.The newl...
Bangla Press Desk: BNP MPs-elect have taken oath as only members of the 13th parliament, not as members of the Constitution Reform Council on Tuesday morning.Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin administered the oath at 10:43am in line w...
Bangla Press Desk: The newly-elected Members of Parliament from the 13th National Parliament Election will take their oath at 10:00am on Tuesday. They are entering the Parliament building to take the oath. The ceremony will be held in the...
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Bangla Press Desk: A total of 14 out of 20 candidates forfeited their security deposits in the recently concluded 13th National Parliamentary Election in three constituencies of Thakurgaon district, including a five-time former member of parlia...
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Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s 13th parliamentary election will be remembered as a “role model” in the country’s electoral history, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday.Speaking at a farewell reception a...
Bangla Press Desk: Tension flared on Monday morning after six tampered ballot papers and two seals were recovered from a polling station in Pirganj Upazila of the Rangpur-6 constituency.The incident occurred at Hasarpara Government Primary Scho...
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Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the start of the trial after taking cognisance of the charges against six individuals, including Sonia Mehjabin, owner of the controversial e-commerce platform E-Orange.shop, in a case filed over all...
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