News and updates from Bangladesh
Bangla Press Desk: Former Information Minister of the ousted Awami League government, Hasanul Haque Inu, told a court that he has been keeping two exercise books in prison — one red and one gre...
Bangla Press Desk: Four people suffered burn injuries in a fire, apparently from an electrical short circuit at Eastern Plus Shopping Complex in the capital’s Shantinagar area late Tuesday night.The injured were identified as Sohrab 20, Shamim,...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman joined the 46th National Rally of the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) in Dhaka on Wednesday morning.The premier arrived at the parade ground of the Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Acade...
Bangla Press Desk: Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar has visited BNP Standing Committee Member and Political Advisor to the Prime Minister Mirza Abbas at a hospital in Malaysia to enquire about his health.Porwar, who is current...
Bangla Press Desk: The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has dismissed social media claims suggesting its workers are arbitrarily removing stray dogs from the streets as “false and misleading”.On Tuesday, the city corporation said protecting...
Bangla Press Desk: Prime Minister’s Information and Broadcasting Adviser Dr Zahed Ur Rahman today (Tuesday) said the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) is not being abolished, rather it is being transformed by bringing it under a specific compr...
Bangla Press Desk: Singapore has reiterated its interest in managing the proposed Bay Terminal at Chittagong Port and plans to invest up to $1 billion in its infrastructure development.The non-resident High Commissioner of Singapore to Banglade...
Bangla Press Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is drafting fresh amendments to its law, proposing sweeping changes that would bring even crimes committed from outside Bangladesh under its jurisdiction, regardless of whether the o...
Bangla Press Desk: British health minister Wes Streeting resigned from government on Thursday, saying he had lost confidence in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership."It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the nex...
Bangla Press Desk: The government has announced a seven-day holiday from May 25 to 31 to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, says a notification.The Ministry of Public Administration said in a notification on Thursday that all government, semi-governm...
Bangla Press Desk: The Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the University of Chittagong have jointly organised a week-long series of events aimed at promoting evidence-b...
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Bangla Press Desk: An Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) meeting is being held on Tuesday with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the chair.The meeting began at the Public Administration Meeting Room of the Cabinet...
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Bangla Press Desk: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered that former Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, be shown arrested in a case over the killing of rickshaw puller Ripon during the July uprising.Dhaka Met...
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