News and updates from Bangladesh
BanglaPress Desk: Police have recovered the belongings—including a laptop and a camera—of German tourist Cyril Lander-Weber, which had gone missing at Natore Railway Station during his visit to Bangla...
Bangla Press Desk: National Citizen Party (NCP) spokesperson Asif Mahmud’s challenge to two Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) press briefings has been dropped from the High Court’s vacation-bench cause list.The petition was taken off the l...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister's Adviser on Finance and Planning Prof Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir said that the government will support technology-based enterprises to create skilled employment and facilitate technology services in the...
Bangla Press Desk: For many Dhaka residents, the struggle over a loved one’s grave does not end with burial. With the city facing a severe shortage of burial space, ordinary graves are generally reused after two years, while families seeking to...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has planned to bring battery-run rickshaws in the capital under a registration system and regulate their movement through designated zones and GPS-based monitoring.Under the proposed plan, Dhaka North City Corp...
Bangla Press Desk: Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear corporation, has said that uranium fuel shipments for the second unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant will begin arriving in Bangladesh from October.The Russian firm released the statemen...
Bangla Press Desk: Four attacks in just three days involving land disputes, land grabs, vandalism, and looting have brought a troubling new pattern into focus in Dhaka.In some cases, dozens of people joined the attacks. In others, the numbers r...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Irene Khan has said 25 years after the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA), the world remains far from fulfilling its promis...
Bangla Press Desk: A total of 492 people were arrested across Dhaka in the past 24 hours as part of regular law-enforcement operations conducted by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).According to a DMP press release, police also filed 29...
Bangla Press Desk: Three people were killed and at least seven others injured when a truck, which had broken down due to a mechanical fault, crashed into an auto-rickshaw in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat on Monday morning.The accident took pla...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman returned home on Sunday after attending the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.The Emirates flight EK-582 carrying the prime minister, his wife Dr Zubaida Rahm...
Bangla Press Desk: The much-talked-about constitution amendment bill may be moved in parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) in its New Year session, says Salahuddin Ahmed, the head of parliamentary special body dealing with the changes in Bangladesh's bas...
Bangla Press Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a case against former Beximco Group chairman Salman F Rahman, his son Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman and 23 others for allegedly embezzling Tk 6.04 billion through a non-existent,...
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