BNP to hoist black flags, hold nationwide prayers Tuesday for Uttara plane crash victims

July 21, 2025

NEWS DESK Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hoist black flags and organise prayers across the country on Tuesday to mourn the tragic deaths of students from Milestone School in the Uttara plane crash. The announcement came through a press release signed by the party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. According to the release, […]Continue Reading

Govt declares state mourning Wednesday over aircraft crash

July 21, 2025

NEWS DESK The government has declared a one-day state mourning on Wednesday following the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft on the Milestone School and College campus in the capital’s Uttara Diabari area, according to Chief Adviser’s Press Wing. The national flag will be flown at half-mast in all government, semi-government, autonomous Continue Reading

Pilot among 20 dead, 171 injured in Uttata aircraft crash: ISPR

July 21, 2025

NEWS DESK At least 20 people have died and 171 others injured after a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) aircraft crashed into a building of Milestone School and College in Uttara, according to the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR). Injured pilot Flight Lieutenant Toukir Islam Sagar died at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka, it said. […]Continue Reading

Listed criminal arrested with illegal firearm in army-led operation

July 15, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK The Bangladesh Army has arrested a listed criminal and suspected drug trafficker during a joint operation in the Tetultala area under Kalabagan Police Station, according to a statement posted on the army’s official Facebook page on Monday (14 July). The operation, conducted around 1:00am based on specific intelligence, led to the arrest […]Continue Reading

Adviser Supradip stresses timely utilisation of budget for CHT development

July 15, 2025

STAFF CORRESPONDENT Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma has said that returning unused portions of additional budget allocations hampers development efforts and stressed the need to ensure timely and effective utilisation of the budget. He made the remarks while speaking at a discussion marking the 27th founding anniversary of the Ministry of Chittagong Continue Reading

BGB seizes Tk 1.36 billion worth of contraband, arms and drugs in June

July 15, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK REPORT Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth approximately Tk 1.36 billion during operations conducted in border areas and other regions across the country in June 2025. The seizures included a range of contraband items, firearms, ammunition, and narcotics. According to a BGB press release, the recovered firearms included two locally Continue Reading

New political body launched to advocate for Rohingya rights

July 14, 2025

NEWS DESK A group of Rohingya leaders from Myanmar, refugee camps in Bangladesh, and the global diaspora have launched a new political body aimed at unifying and advancing the political struggle of the persecuted minority, Anadolu Agency reports. The Arakan Rohingya National Council (ARNC), officially launched on Sunday, said it will represent the Rohingya people […]Continue Reading

150,000 Rohingya fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in 18 months: UN

July 14, 2025

Bangladesh has over the past 18 months registered the biggest influx of Rohingya refugees since the mass exodus of Myanmar’s largely Muslim minority nearly a decade ago, the United Nations said Friday, AFP reports. The UN refugee agency said up to 150,000 Rohingya had arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps since early 2024. “Targeted […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh election date still unclear, says CEC

July 14, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK Bangladesh’s Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin says the date for the next national election has not yet been decided. In an interview with BBC Bangla, he said it was difficult to confirm when the vote would take place, as the Election Commission has not been formally informed of a […]Continue Reading

WHO sends Saima Wazed on indefinite leave amid corruption allegations

July 12, 2025

Saima Wazed, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional director for the South East Asia Regional Office (SEARO), has been sent on indefinite leave from Friday (11 July). The WHO took the decision four months after Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed two cases against her for fraud, forgery and misuse of power, according to a report […]Continue Reading