¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·

Skip to main content

Tags : LoC


img

LGRC’s meeting with ministry starts this week

The local government reform commission would start exchanging views with ministry officials this week. The next phase of the meeting would cover officials of the local government-related institutions.  

img

Roundtable on effective, accountable local governance held

Discussants at a roundtable in Dhaka on Sunday said that steps such as actionable guidelines to minimise political influence in local governance, fostering transparency, empowering local government officials, and practical approaches for boosting people’s participation in governance should be taken to bring a decentralised system in the country...

img

Govt should have holistic plan on seven affiliated colleges

STUDENTS of the Government Titumir College holding a blockade of Mohakhali in Dhaka on November 18 demanding an upgrade of the institution to a university inconvenienced city people for four hours and a half beginning half an hour before the noon. The tailback that the blockade created spilled to areas bordering Mohakhali, Tejgaon, Moghbazar...

img

Pakistani separatists kill 26 in station blast

A bombing claimed by Pakistani separatists killed 26 people including 14 soldiers at a railway station in the southwestern Balochistan province, a hospital spokesman said Saturday.

img

Tourism restrictions lifted in Bandarban

The local administration has lifted restrictions on tourism in four upazilas of Bandarban district, signaling a cautious return to travel in the area.

img

Dawn-to-dusk blockade observed in Khagrachari

The United People’s Democratic Front, a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political organisation, on Thursday observed a dawn-to-dusk road blockade in Khagrachari district protesting against Wednesday’s killing of its three activists and demanding immediate arrest of the killers...

img

Kashmir votes after special status scrapped

Indian-administered Kashmir began voting Wednesday in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan...

img

Canada recently blocked weapons sales to Israel: FM

Canada has suspended some 30 permits for arms shipments to Israel, including a rare move against a US company’s Canadian subsdiary’s deal with the US government, the foreign minister said Tuesday...

img

The shocking revelations of ‘Alo Asbei’

IT SEEMS that the entertainment arena has been thrown into turmoil once again — though this time, it’s not due to a blockbuster film or a controversial drama. Instead, the source of this noise is a simple, unassuming WhatsApp group. But don’t be fooled by its innocent name, ‘Alo Asbei’ (which one might think means ‘Light Will Come’), because this group...

img

Early local govt elections should be high on govt agenda

THE interim government has removed representatives of all local government institutions but for the union councils and appointed administrators, giving the absence of chairs and mayors from office as a reason in less than a fortnight after the downfall of the Awami League’s authoritarian regime that was toppled on August 5...