The Appellate Division has dismissed a government appeal challenging the entitlement of bench readers and bench officers to selection grade benefits, upholding earlier decisions of the High Court Division.
Janata Bank PLC on Monday held its divisional branch managers鈥� conference for Dhaka North, said a press release...
In its latest monthly economic update, the General Economics Division (GED) of the Bangladesh Planning Commission has projected cautious optimism for the country鈥檚 economic trajectory in FY2026, highlighting both the encouraging trends and persistent structural challenges...
WHEN a new episode begins in Bangladesh, it often ends not in reform but in distortion. The story of higher education is no different. Public and private universities are said to be growing in number every few years. Yet in a country where even the four major autonomous public universities struggle to recruit talented and committed teachers, there is little...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday set July 30 to deliver its verdict on the appeal filed by Mobarak Hossain, a former Jamaat-e-Islami member and an expelled Awami League leader, challenging his death sentence for committing war crimes during the country鈥檚 liberation war...
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday nominated justice Md Rezaul Haque as judge-in-chamber-1 and justice Farah Mahbub as judge-in-chamber-2, forming two chamber judge courts to dispose of emergency matters at the Appellate Division...
Janata Bank PLC held its divisional branch managers鈥� conference in Sylhet at a local hotel on July 17, said a press release...
IN A MEETING with the National Consensus Commission held on July 13, all parties included in the process have agreed on the method of appointing the chief justice of the Supreme Court, as well as measures to ensure that the declaration of a state of emergency cannot be misused. The current constitution allows emergency declarations for up to 120 days and requires only...
Political parties at the National Consensus Commission鈥檚 dialogue session on Thursday recommended replacing the term 鈥榠nternal disturbance鈥� with 鈥榮ecurity threats to the state鈥檚 sovereignty and territorial integrity鈥� in the constitution鈥檚 article 141A that relates to the proclamation of emergency...
Arnob Saha and Soumyia Akter clinched the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 singles titles of the week-long MTB Mymensingh Divisional Tennis Tournament that ended at the Mymensingh Club on Friday.
A group of assailants hacked and shot a cable television operator in the Purba Brahmandi area in Narsingdi district town Monday night...
Citizens Bank has recently organised a daylong training on Integrated Supervision System reporting at its training academy, said a press release...
The Appellate Division on Sunday stayed its March 1, 2018 order that upheld the Bangladesh Judicial Service (Disciplinary) Rules 2017, framed during the Awami League regime...
The government has formed a five-member committee, headed by justice Shamim Hasnain, former judge of the High Court Division, to investigate the allegations raised over the last three Jatiya Sangsad elections and to make recommendations to hold fair election in the future...
Seventeen banks reported a staggering provision shortfall of Tk聽1,77,650 crore at the end of March 2025, with six of them facing such deficits for the first time, indicating a sharp deterioration in their financial health amid a mounting crisis of non-performing loans...
Gaan Bangla Television chairman Kaushik Hossain Taposh was released from Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Wednesday evening, just a day after the High Court granted him interim bail in a case linked to the July 2024 mass uprising...
The provision shortfall in Bangladesh鈥檚 banking sector surged to a record Tk聽1.7 lakh crore at the end of March 2025, reflecting a 61 per cent increase in just three months as banks鈥� distressed assets continued to surge alarmingly...
Ekattor Television鈥檚 former chief news editor Shakil Ahmed and his wife, former chief reporter and anchor Farzana Rupa returned to jail on Wednesday after four-hour parole to attend the funeral of Farzana鈥檚 mother in Mymensingh...
Janata Bank PLC鈥檚 Faridpur Divisional Branch Managers鈥� Conference was held on Friday...
Vision on Wednesday launched its 鈥楳oney back guarantee offer鈥� campaign in an event in Dhaka, said a press release...
The Appellate Division on Tuesday overturned its 2019 judgement that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 liberation war...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that products, including edible oil, sugar, cement, and iron, manufactured in the country鈥檚 economic zones are not exempted from value-added tax, overturning a High Court verdict that had declared such taxation illegal...
The Appellate Division on Wednesday quashed the corruption proceedings against former housing and public works minister and senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Mirza Abbas over alleged irregularities in allocating government land for a journalists鈥� cooperative society in Mirpur...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned until May 26 the hearing of a state petition seeking permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that had acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and...
WHILE the National Consensus Commission has dominated headlines with its efforts to forge consensus on critical constitutional issues, the ministry of finance has proposed a seismic shift in the country鈥檚 revenue sector: dismantling the National Board of Revenue and the Internal Resource Division to create two new divisions under direct ministerial control. This move...
BRIGADIER General (Retd) HRM Rokan Uddin鈥檚 recent call for rethinking Bangladesh鈥檚 defence reforms, published in 抖阴精品, deserves recognition for reigniting a largely dormant strategic debate. His essay presents an aspirational vision for modernising Bangladesh鈥檚 armed forces in a time of shifting global power dynamics, emerging hybrid threats, and evolving...
A PERSISTENT high rate of child poverty and a widening gap between child poverty rates between rural and urban areas and different parts of the country are concerning. A General Economics Division study, The urban-rural dichotomy: a comparative analysis of child poverty in Bangladesh, says that the national average child poverty rate is 16.49 per cent, with an...
General Economics Division member Monzur Hossain on Wednesday said that they did not support a more flexible exchange rate policy as suggested by the International Monetary Fund under its current $4.7 billion loan programme...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday cleared all legal hurdles for Shamsun Nahar, mother of detained International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor Tureen Afroz, and Shamsun Nahar鈥檚 only son, Shahnawaz Ahmed Shishir, to take...
The Appellate Division鈥檚 chamber judge on Wednesday withdrew an order that stayed the High Court鈥檚 bail granted to former International Society for Krishna Consciousness leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in a sedition case over alleged desecration of the national flag...