THE police play a pivotal role in any society, entrusted with safeguarding public safety, maintaining order, and upholding justice. In Bangladesh, public expectations reflect a deep yearning for fairness, security, and trust, yet these hopes are often overshadowed by systemic challenges such as political influence, corruption, inefficiency, and human rights violations...
The Bangladesh Public Service Commission on Sunday announced the dates for the written tests and viva voce under the ongoing 44th, 45th, 46th and 47th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations. It has also announced the dates for publishing the results of the exams already conducted...
Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL), a leading UK-based multinational and the country鈥檚 largest fast-moving consumer goods company, welcomed Baroness Rosie Winterton, the UK government鈥檚 trade envoy to Bangladesh, and Sarah Cooke, the British high commissioner to Bangladesh, to its corporate headquarters in Dhaka...
The 3rd meeting of the board of governors of the Public Private Partnership Authority was held at the chief adviser鈥檚 office on Sunday...
The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months of 2025.
A section of the 46th Bangladesh Civil Service examination written examinees in Dhaka on Thursday blocked a road between the Bangladesh Public Service Commission and the Election Commission for delaying the examination...
Politicians, academics and professionals at a discussion in Dhaka on Thursday demanded the declaration of April 10 as republic day since proclamation of independence was adopted on this day in 1971...
The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, the head of rescue operations said Thursday, in the Caribbean nation鈥檚 worst disaster in decades.
Rescuers rushed to find survivors on Wednesday after the roof of a Dominican Republic nightclub collapsed during a concert by popular singer Rubby Perez, one of more than 110 people killed in the disaster...
Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairman Mobasser Monem on Tuesday said the final results of the 44th BCS will be published by June 30.
A Dhaka court on Monday ordered to freeze 13 bank accounts of Syed Abed Ali, a former driver for the chairman of Public Service Commission, seize a car and attach two flats and a building on 8.88 bigha plot...
IN THE digital age, disinformation has emerged as a major challenge, affecting politics, public health, and social stability worldwide. Disinformation refers to deliberate falsehoods spread to mislead or manipulate people for political, economic, or ideological gain. Unlike misinformation, which is unintentionally incorrect, disinformation is crafted with intent and is often...
A Chattogram court on Sunday asked the police to officially show listed crime suspect Sajjad Hossain, also known as Chhoto Sajjad, arrested in a double murder case involving a car chase in the city...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against 11 people, including the former secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and former president of Ideal School and College, Abu Hena Morshed Zaman and the school鈥檚 former principal Shahana Ara Begum on charges of admitting 107 students to the school illegally...
UNABATED medical waste dumping on roads, bins, drains, water bodies and open spaces in the capital and elsewhere has raised serious public health and environmental concern. The hazardous substances in medical waste include pathological and infectious materials, such as sharp needles and toxic chemicals. In hospitals, various therapeutic procedures, such as cobalt...
The concerned disabled candidates of the 46th BCS written examination are requested to send their applications stating their need for dictation scribes by April 10 during office hours. The Bangladesh Public Service Commission would appoint dictation scribes...
The preliminary test for the 47th Bangladesh Civil Service examination will be held on June 27...
The implementation rate of the annual development programme hitting a decade鈥檚 low in the first eight months of the financial year raises concern. Only 24.17 per cent of the ADP budget has, keeping to the Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, been used in the eight months. The rate was much lower in the first seven months, with only 21.52 per cent, and..
UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said Sunday she plans to cut the costs of running government by 15 per cent within four years, as she grapples with strained public finances...
Bangladesh Public Service Commission has published the date and time of the viva voce for the general and technical/professional cadre post candidates who have provisionally passed the 44th BCS written examination.
THIS is worrying that the money that government spends on training public servants at home and abroad hardly brings results. The government in 2020鈥�2024 financial years has spent about Tk 188.73 billion on training under development and non-development budgets. But, economists say that a less-than-expected implementation rate of the annual..
The National Memorial at Savar has been temporarily closed to the public for nine days, starting from Monday, amid security maintenance and beautification works...
The government every year spends substantial amounts for various kinds of training for public servants at home and abroad, but economists have said that the exercise has brought hardly any results.
A five-day training workshop for bus drivers and helpers has begun in Dhaka to prevent sexual harassment in public transport...
The Chittagong Port Authority on Tuesday urged the city dwellers to beat waterlogging and plastic pollution for securing public health...
Many patients seeking treatment at public hospitals in the capital Dhaka and other districts returned home without medical services on Wednesday as doctors staged protests to press for their demands...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Tuesday urged political parties to present proposals to the nation to address public issues, rather than focusing only on reforms to the state structure and institutions...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has intensified security measures across the capital to ensure public safety, and as part of the initiative 1786 persons were brought to book in the last seven days...
The government has decided to recruit an additional 2,000 doctors through the ongoing recruitment process of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday urged the country鈥檚 Islamic scholars to remain careful about the newly emerged slogan of the 鈥榮econd republic.鈥�