President Mohammed Shahabuddin put out a message saying he is worried about Khaleda Zia getting sicker while she is stuck in a private hospital getting treatment. The former PM and BNP boss is dealing with serious health problems, and Shahabuddin asked everyone across Bangladesh to keep her in...
Nepal's embassy set up shop at the charity bazaar thing FOSA runs every year, and they brought pashminas, handicrafts, and a bunch of traditional stuff that got people hyped. The food corner serving actual Nepali dishes ended up being the big draw at the event.
Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain...
Club Notredamians Bangladesh wrapped up their President Cup Indoor Tournament after a month of games across table tennis, chess, carrom, pool, and snooker. The competition pulled 115 members from different graduating classes, and they added snooker for the first time this year.
Badrul Hassan...
Bangladesh dropped their first-ever U-21 Hockey World Cup game against Australia but made it interesting with a 5-3 scoreline that had Amirul Islam bagging three goals off penalty corner drag-flicks. The Aussies jumped ahead fast, and Dylan Brick plus Ian Grobbelaar kept piling on through set...
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters that Khaleda Zia cannot handle flying anywhere until her body stabilizes from the mess she is dealing with right now. The 80-year-old ex-PM got hospitalized after heart and lung infections turned into pneumonia, and she is stuck in the coronary care...
BNP rolled out a month-long celebration plan for Victory Day that kicks off at Kalurghat Radio Station in Chattogram, where Zia first announced independence back in 1971. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir laid out the whole schedule at a press conference in Gulshan, and he said this year hits...
BNP keeps telling everyone to stop mobbing Evercare Hospital while Khaleda Zia gets treatment in the coronary unit, but party loyalists are not listening. People kept showing up from different neighborhoods asking about her condition after word spread that things got worse, and some prayer group...
Engineers and disaster nerds threw a seminar in Dhaka, warning that Bangladesh had better get its act together before a big earthquake wrecks everything. The problem is not the structural work getting better, but crappy soil testing that leads to garbage foundations, according to Abdullah Al...
The government is basically saying Tarique Rahman can come back to Bangladesh whenever he wants, and nobody from their side is blocking him. Shafiqul Alam put out a Facebook thing responding to reporters after Tarique mentioned his return wasn't totally up to him right then.
Muhammad Yunus...
The advisory council gave the green light to changing up foreign donation rules, and they made things way easier for NGOs pulling cash from overseas. Muhammad Yunus ran the meeting where they decided groups can grab up to 50 lakh taka yearly without begging for permission first. Registration...
The EU Ambassador showed up to watch Bangladesh's Election Commission run a full practice drill for their massive 2026 vote, which is apparently going to be the biggest election happening anywhere on the planet that year. Michael Miller checked out their mock ballots, fake referendum forms, and...
Khaleda Zia's family wants to fly her to London for medical care, but she's not stable enough yet to travel. Tarique Rahman and his crew are lining up a fancy air ambulance and talking to the same hospital that helped her earlier this year. Mahmudur Rahman Manna swung by Evercare Hospital and...
Patuakhali Science and Technology University hosted a talk about preparing for climate disasters, and the Bashundhara Shuvosangho campus chapter organized it. Abu Sufian and several other student leaders ran the show, plus a bunch of members turned up to discuss how Bangladesh's coast keeps...
The central bank boss told a business conference that the country's financial system is getting its act together after some serious problems, even though there's still a ton of mess to clean up. The governor said the exchange rate stopped bouncing around like crazy, and foreign banks that bailed...
A local group started passing out flyers around Teknaf to warn people about human trafficking schemes after sea-route smuggling became a bigger problem in the area. The month-long awareness push is hitting different neighborhoods and schools to get residents clued in about the sketchy migration...
Bangladesh's top cop flew back home after hitting up the big Interpol meeting in Morocco, where police bosses from 196 countries got together to talk about keeping the world safe. The assembly covered stuff like fighting cybercrime, shutting down international scam operations, and getting more...
Over 6,500 people showed up to compete for 130 spots in the fine arts program at Dhaka University. The test had two parts, where students had to answer general questions and show off their drawing skills at different buildings around campus.
The university's top administrators walked through...
Dhaka University is moving everything to remote learning after earthquakes messed up their buildings and freaked everyone out. The school told department heads and deans to start running classes through video calls, and nobody knows when they'll switch back to in-person stuff.
Engineers are...
The home affairs guy who used to be a lieutenant general stopped by Evercare Hospital to see how Khaleda Zia is holding up. The retired military adviser swung through around midday to check on the former prime minister, who's been stuck there dealing with a bunch of health problems at the same...
Some politicians from the National Citizens Party showed up at the hospital where former PM Khaleda Zia is getting treated to check how she's doing. The crew talked with her doctors about what's going on with her medical situation after they visited her room at Evercare Hospital.
Three party...
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