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: Operations at the Rampal Thermal Power Plant remain stable and normal, according to Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL).In a statement issued on Monday (26 January), BIFPCL Managing Director R. Sarangpani sai...
Bangla Press Desk: The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 is scheduled to pronounce its judgment today in a case filed over crimes against humanity committed in the city's Chankharpul area on 5 August 2024, when six people were brutally killed.ICT...
Bangla Press Desk: The recent rescue of a Royal Bengal Tiger after it was caught in a deer snare has once again drawn attention to rampant poaching and the widespread use of deadly traps deep inside the Sundarbans, posing a growing threat to the fore...
Bangla Press Desk: Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday said the government is moving away from financing large-scale development projects through foreign loans and stressed the need for avoiding a “debt trap”.“We do not want to take lo...
Bangla Press Desk: Muggers looted Tk24 lakh by firing gunshots and exploding crude bombs in the Basan area of Gazipur city on Sunday afternoon.Witnesses said Saiful Islam, a staff member of a Dutch-Bangla Bank agent outlet owned by Shafiqul Isl...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Sunday extended heartfelt congratulations to the Bangladesh Women's Futsal Team on their historic achievement.In the SAFF Women's Futsal Championship held for the first time, Bangladesh cl...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday imposed a travel ban on Anis Ahmed, the brother of former Army chief General Aziz Ahmed, over graft allegations.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order following an application f...
Bangla Press Desk: Home and Agriculture Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said the government is opposed to granting bail to criminals, not to members of the Awami League or its student wing, Bangladesh Chhatra League.He made th...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered the seizure of income tax records of former lawmaker Syeda Rubina Akter and her husband, Md Mosharraf Hossain Sardar, over graft allegations.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed...
Bangla Press Desk: The prosecution at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 on Sunday pleaded for the maximum punishment of those accused in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) student Abu Sa...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered the seizure of immovable properties worth Tk22 crore owned by former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah and his family members.The seized properties include lands and...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Sunday said foreign diplomats in Bangladesh have expressed full confidence in the Election Commission's ability to hold a free, fair, neutral, and credible 13th national pa...
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