Officials of the health and education cadres are planning to make louder their protests against the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals, including separating the health and education sectors from the Bangladesh Civil Service, in the coming weeks...
Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed 52 people and injured 65, the Taliban government spokesmen said on Thursday...
Administrative service officials and government college teachers have strongly criticised the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals that the commission has finalised for submitting to the interim government...
A COUPLE of recommendations that the commission on public administration reforms, instituted in mid-September, says would make are a welcome move. The commission has said that it would recommend the separation of the health and the education cadre from other cadres the way the judicial cadre has been separated from the...
The public administration reform commission would recommend that the government separate the health and education sectors from the cadre services and merge the remaining cadre services into five clusters.
The Public Administration Reform Commission is set to recommend that no one be promoted to the positions of deputy secretary and joint secretary in the civil service without undergoing an examination, said commission chairman Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury.
A coal mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan trapping 32 miners, a provincial official told AFP on Sunday, adding rescuers had been working for hours to reach the men....
The National Board of Revenue on Sunday announced that all online VAT services, including Integrated VAT Administration System, will be unavailable for 96 hours due to a network migration...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party in a series of recommendations to the public administration reform commission has sought action against party-biased and corrupt officials working in the administration in the past 16 years...
Tashinga Musekiwa struck 11 runs off the final over on Wednesday to give Zimbabwe their second-ever victory against Afghanistan in a T20 international.
The leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal- BSD on Wednesday expressed concern over provocation of sectarian unrest in the country...
French president Emmanuel Macron raced Wednesday to meet a self-imposed 48-hour deadline to name a new prime minister after he hosted party bosses in a bid to hammer out a consensus and avoid a protracted political crisis...
The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry鈥檚 offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, blaming the Islamic State group for the attack which has not been claimed...
The government on Tuesday appointed senior secretary of the Public Security division of home ministry Mohammad Abdul Momen as new chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission...
Syrian prime minister Mohammed al-Jalali said Sunday he was ready to 鈥榗ooperate鈥� with any leadership chosen by the people, after rebels said 鈥榯yrant鈥� president Bashar al-Assad had fled the country...
BEGUM Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, an iconic figure in South Asian feminist thought, stands as a pioneer who championed the cause of women鈥檚 emancipation in colonial Bengal. Her progressive ideals and relentless activism align closely with the principles of liberal feminism, which advocate for equality, individual rights, and access to education...
Dhaka is likely to raise the issue of extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the Bangladesh-India Foreign Office Consultation scheduled for today in the capital amid a tension between the two neighbours over the Hindu minority issues...
The UN mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday urged the Taliban government to reconsider a reported plan to ban women from attending medical training institutes, in the latest move to restrict women鈥檚 education...
BNP on Thursday submitted its recommendations to the police administration reform commission...
PASSPORT, road transport administration, law enforcement and judicial services have come up to be the top four corrupt services sectors from 2017 to 2023, as Transparency International Bangladesh surveys for 2023, 2021 and 2017, the latest three of the surveys that the corruption watchdog have published since 1997, show. In the 2021 and 2017 surveys, the most corrupt service sectors were the same and in the...
Ruud van Nistelrooy savoured his first match in charge of Leicester with a 3-1 Premier League win over West Ham, while Crystal Palace edged Ipswich 1-0 on Tuesday.
Deputy secretaries from 25 different cadres, who have been deprived of promotions, would receive their due advancements in December, said Md Obaidur Rahman, additional secretary of the recruitment, promotion, and transfer (APD) of the ministry of public administration on Tuesday...
The ministry of public administration has directed the relevant ministries, departments, and organisations to take immediate steps to fill 4,75,001 vacant posts in government service...
An Afghan environment official on Sunday said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban officials attended for the first time...
Communist Party of Bangladesh leaders on Sunday at a rally said that the spirit of the liberation war of 1971 has not yet been implemented...
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Florida on Friday for a dinner with Donald Trump at the president-elect鈥檚 Mar-a-Lago estate, as the incoming US leader promised tariffs on Canadian imports...
IT IS too early to draw an outline of the Middle East policy of the incoming Trump administration. The cabinet and other senior positions are shaping up, while Democrats are doing their best to badger Arab-Americans for their vote against the Democratic Party...
Leicester named Ruud van Nistelrooy as the club's new manager on Friday, just weeks after his departure from Manchester United.
India has expressed concern over what it called a 鈥榮urge of extremist rhetoric鈥� in Bangladesh and said the interim government must live up to its responsibility of protecting the minorities.
South Korea鈥檚 capital was blanketed Wednesday by the heaviest November snowfall since records began over a century ago, the weather agency said...