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...
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Bangla Press Desk: Students from the seven colleges blocked the Science Lab intersection in the capital on Wednesday, demanding the promulgation of an ordinance for the proposed Dhaka Central University. The blockade began around 12:45pm,...
Bangla Press Desk: The government is expanding the list of essential medicines. The number of drugs on the list has increased from 135 to 295, and all of them will have to be sold at prices fixed by the government.Although the decision has caus...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday set 2 February for pronouncing the judgment in a case against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her nieces Tulip Siddiq and Azmina Siddiq, and 15 others, filed over alleged plot allocation irregula...
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Bangla Press Desk: The Editors’ Council and the Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) will jointly organise a journalists’ conference in the capital on 17 January.The conference will be held at the Krishibid Institution Bang...
Bangla Press Desk: A child critically injured by firing from across the border amid Myanmar’s ongoing unrest is being transported to Dhaka from Chattogram for advanced treatment.As of Tuesday morning, the physical condition of Huzaifa Af...
Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission (EC) restored the candidacies of another 53 aspirants on Tuesday, the fourth day of appeal hearings against returning officers’ decisions on nomination papers for the 13th parliamentary polls.Co...
Bangla Press Desk: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman has said that a section of the bureaucracy is more influential than the interim government’s advisory council.“The advisory council does not effe...
Bangla Press Desk: The Appellate Division on Monday dismissed six appeals filed by brick kiln owners from different parts of the country, upholding earlier court directives to demolish illegally established brick kilns.The appeals were fi...
Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Monday ordered to show former state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak arrested in a case filed over an attempted murder of Md Durjoy Ahammed during the July Mass Uprising in 2024.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Eh...
Bangla Press Desk: The five-day ‘Shaheed Osman Hadi Memorial Book Fair–2026’ will begin on 18 January at the TSC Paira Chattar of Dhaka University, aiming to promote the ideals of resistance, free thinking and cultural activism among young peop...
Bangla Press Desk: Home Affairs Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has called upon members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) to perform their duties with honesty; dedication and professionalism to en...
Bangla Press Desk: Bangladesh and Pakistan have discussed a range of regional and global issues on the sidelines of the extraordinary session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers' (CFM) meeting in Jeddah...
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