EC to firmly advocate for keeping NID services: CEC
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin said that they would strongly urge the government to keep the national identity services under the election commission鈥檚 control...
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UN to halve food budget for Rohingyas in Bangladesh camps
The United Nations is going to reduce its allocation for food for Rohingyas in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 a month per person from the next month...
JULY UPRISING ABUSES: UN rights chief calls for justice
Presenting the fact-finding report in Geneva in Switzerland on human rights violations and abuses related to the protests of the July-August student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh, United Nations鈥� high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T眉rk, on Wednesday said that accountability was absolutely the key...
UNHCR urges global focus on Rohingya crisis
Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...
CALL FOR UN ENGAGEMENT: Investigating violence against minoritised communities
WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
DCs asked to ensure order, curb price hike
Deputy commissioners from across Bangladesh on Tuesday were asked to maintain the law and order situation, contain the spiralling of prices of essential commodities and ensure proper public services.
DCs recommend increased BGB deployment along borders
Deputy Commissioners on Tuesday recommended deployment of Border Guard Bangladesh personnel in a greater number in the country鈥檚 frontier areas to bolster national security in addition to enhanced security measures for waterways....
DCs should be accountable to elected representatives
THE deputy commissioners鈥� seeking more powers, as they have already proposed during their annual conference in Dhaka, in discharging their responsibilities comes with concerns in a number of areas. The deputy commissioners, who also work as district magistrates, have sought to be further empowered regarding law enforcement, the judiciary, local government and...
DCs want more power
The deputy commissioners on the concluding day of their annual conference will ask for more power in disposing of their roles and responsibilities in relation to law enforcement agencies, judiciary, local government and public administration, among other arenas.
DCs asked to help tax base expansion
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday said that deputy commissioners had been directed to help the National Board of Revenue identify taxpayers outside Dhaka and Chattogram...
DCs urged to help to ensure fair election
The deputy commissioners on Sunday, the opening day of their three-day annual conference, were urged to help hold the forthcoming national polls in a fair manner.
DCs for framing code of conduct for MPs
The three-day annual conference of the deputy commissioners begins today in Dhaka city where the district administrators are set to propose framing a code of conduct for lawmakers and other public representatives and...
Only trial of July-Aug crimes can make reparations
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
Ex-CMP commissioner held for student鈥檚 murder during uprising
A Chattogram court on Wednesday granted permission for a three-day jail gate interrogation of former Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Saiful Islam in the murder case of Hridoy Chandra Tarua, a university student killed during the student-led mass uprising...
Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina ordered protesters鈥� killing, body hiding: UN
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Former CEC justice Abdur Rouf dies
Former justice and chief election commissioner Md Abdur Rouf passed away while undergoing treatment at a Dhaka hospital. He was 95...
Traffic sergeants to carry arms against muggers: DMP chief
Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Sajjad Ali announced plans to arm traffic sergeants with small arms to combat rising incidents of mugging in the capital...
POND EXCAVATION IN AGRICULTURAL LAND: Customs excise, VAT commissionerate鈥檚 wife sued
An upazila land official in Rajshahi filed a case against two people, including Musfika Akter Mim, wife of customs excise and VAT commissionerate, Khulna鈥檚 deputy commissioner Md Abul Kalam Azad, for illegally excavating a pond on triple cropping land...
Suspended AC Urmi charged with defamation
A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed charges against suspended assistant commissioner Tapasi Tabassum Urmi in a case filed for making derogatory remarks about Abu Sayed and other martyrs of student-led July-August mass uprising...
Indian envoy for enhanced trade with Bangladesh
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has hoped that trade connectivity and economic engagement between Bangladesh and India would continue to bring people and businesses of the two countries closer together...
HC summons seven for failure to shut brickfields
The High Court on Wednesday summoned three divisional commissioners, two deputy commissioners and two upazila nirbahi officers to explain their failure to shut down illegal brickfields in their respective jurisdictions...
EC's independence must be upheld, says CEC
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday said that the constitutionally guaranteed independence of the Election Commission must not be compromised in delivering a credible election as the nation aspires...
India-Bangladesh relationship focus on benefit of people: Verma
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has said that Delhi would continue to seek a stable, positive, constructive, forward-looking and mutually beneficial relationship with Dhaka in which people were the main stakeholders...
Electoral reforms must be done by October for polls in December: CEC
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Sunday said that all necessary preparations for national elections must be completed by October if the elections were to be held in December...
Mutasim Billah president of BCS Taxation Assoc
Tax Commissioner Mutasim Billah Faruqi has been selected as president and Syed Mohibul Hasan secretary general of the BCS (Taxation) Association...
Time will tell whether AL be able to participate in election: CEC
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Saturday said that time would tell whether Awami League would be able to participate in the next election or not.
No plan of using EVMs in next election: CEC
Newly appointed chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday said that the Bangladesh Election Commission did not have any plans of using electronic voting machines in the upcoming general elections in the country.
HC acquits Giasuddin Al Mamun in money laundering case
The High Court on Thursday acquitted Giasuddin Al Mamun, a businessman and close friend of the BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, in a money laundering case scrapping his seven-year jail sentence.
DMP commissioner calls on OCs to build public trust
Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjad Ali has directed the officers-in-charge of all police stations to improve the image of police force by delivering quality services to the common people.
Acceptable polls after reforms: CEC
Newly sworn-in chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Sunday vowed to organise a free, fair, impartial and acceptable election soon after completing some reforms.
