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: A high-level meeting on the country’s overall economic progress and budget expenditure was held at the state guesthouse Jamuna in the city on Monday.Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus chaired the meeting attended by, among oth...
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Bangla Press Desk: A student of the University of Dhaka (DU) has been sentenced to 15 days’ imprisonment for attempting to sit in the Jahangirnagar University (JU) undergraduate admission test as a proxy candidate.The incident occurred on Monda...
Bangla Press Desk: More than 5.75 lakh expatriate voters have registered to cast their votes through postal ballots from abroad for the upcoming 13th General Election and referendum.According to information published on the Election Comm...
Bangla Press Desk: In a move to strengthen administrative support for the upcoming electoral process, the interim government has attached two senior officials from the BCS (Information-General) cadre to the Bangladesh Election Commission...
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Bangla Press Desk: Ferry services on the country’s key Daulatdia–Paturia river route were temporarily suspended due to dense fog at around 10:00pm on Sunday, causing suffering to passengers and vehicles waiting to cross the river.BIWTC D...
Bangla Press Desk: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman has said that the police and other law enforcement agencies have not yet reached a position to recover morally and professionally following...
Bangla Press Desk: The Election Commission has extended the deadline until 31 December for local election observer organisations to apply for deploying their observers in the upcoming 13th parliamentary election and referendum.According t...
Bangla Press Desk: Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday alleged that the defence is attempting to mislead the tribunal by filing repeated petitions in a bid to delay the judicial proce...
Bangla Press Desk: Two siblings have died in the capital’s Hatirjheel area, with police suspecting food poisoning as the preliminary cause of death.The incident took place in the Wireless Mor area under Hatirjheel Police Station. Th...
Bangla Press Desk: Police have arrested the main suspect, Israt Raihan Omi, on allegations of issuing death threats on social media against Abdul Hannan Masud, joint chief coordinator of the National Citizen Party (NCP) and the party’s ca...
Bangla Press Desk: Safe drinking water, a basic necessity of daily life, has transformed living conditions for low-income communities in Cumilla City Corporation through an initiative by The Coca-Cola Foundation and Water & Sanitation...
Bangla Press Desk: Even more than a decade after winning its maritime boundary, Bangladesh has failed to achieve any notable success in oil and gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal. While neighbouring India, Pakistan and Myanmar have move...
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