Mofidur tasked with FID secretary鈥檚 routine work
The interim government on Tuesday engaged Md Mofidur Rahman, an additional secretary of the finance division, to look into the daily routine work of the financial institutions division secretary...
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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鈥檚 authoritarian regime that was toppled on August 5...
HC asks BTRC to shutdown broadcasting of Somoy TV for seven days
The High Court on Monday asked the information and broadcasting ministry鈥� secretary and chairmen of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited to stop broadcasting of Somoy Television channel for seven days...
Interim govt appoints Abdur Rahman Khan NBR chairman
The government on Wednesday cancelled contractual聽appointment of National Board of Revenue chairman Abu Hena Md Rahmatul聽Muneem...
Public Security Division secretary sent on compulsory retirement
The senior secretary to the Public Security Division, Md Jahangir Alam, has been sent on compulsory retirement.
Four Appellate Division judges take oath
Four newly appointed judges of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court took oath on Tuesday...
4 HC judges elevated to Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court
Four High Court judges were on Monday elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court clearing the way for the newly appointed chief justice to hold proceedings in the Appellate Division from today...
4 BB officials, alleged of providing $30m to Salman in Aug, resign
Four top officials of Bangladesh Bank submitted their resignation letters on Monday to the Financial Institution Division after allegations of giving US $30 million to Salman F Rahman on August 4 from Export Development Fund surfaced.
Attorney general for reforming HC 聽
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Monday suggested reforming the High Court Division following the resignation of the chief justice and five Appellate Division judges on Sunday amid allegations of an attempted judicial coup against the interim government headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus...
Bangladesh Chief Justice Obaidul, five AD judges resign
High Court Division鈥檚 justice Syed Refaat Ahmed was appointed as chief justice of Bangladesh on Saturday following the resignation of chief justice Obaidul Hassan and five other judges of the Appellate Division amid student protests and allegations of an attempted judicial coup...
New curriculum not suspended: ministry
Education ministry officials on Saturday confirmed that a new school curriculum had not been suspended amid a confusion raised in this regard...
Finance div prepares economic report for finance adviser
The Finance Division has prepared an update about the economy highlighting the prevailing high inflation and falling forex reserves to submit to the finance adviser of the newly formed interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus...
Rangpur manager Bithi reinstated
Rangpur Division women鈥檚 cricket team manager Arifa Jahan Bithi 鈥� who was dismissed from her role following her participation in helping the protestors during the recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in the country 鈥� has been reinstated...
Judiciary must learn to stay off political control
THE judiciary appears to be in need of an urgent course correction as it appears to have shifted its standing with the change in the government. And, such a shift questions the independence of the judiciary that was officially effected on November 1, 2007 from the executive and the legislative based a 12-point directive that the Appellate Division issued...
Courts in Bangladesh to remain closed indefinitely
All the proceedings of the Appellate Division and High Court Division of the Supreme Court will remain closed for an indefinite period starting Monday.
Citizens for probe into killings of protesters under UN supervision
Seventy-four eminent citizens demanded unbiased, independent, transparent, and credible investigations into the killings of students and other citizens during the quota reform movement under the supervision of United Nations high-level experts...
Contempt of court rule issued against lawyer Mohsin, journalist Kanak
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday issued contempt of court notices against lawyer Mohammad Mohsin Rashid and expatriate journalist Kanak Sarwar for making objectionable comments about the judiciary, Supreme Court and International Criminal Tribunal...
Six land in jail in BTV rampage case
A Dhaka court has sent six leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, including Sultan Salauddin Tuku to jail in a case, lodged over rampaging state-owned...
Notification to be issued anytime, says minister
A notification on the order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court over quota reform is likely to be issued today or tomorrow, public administration minister Farhad Hossain said on Monday...
Govt had better take action on all issues protesters talk of
THE Appellate Division has revoked the High Court verdict of June 5 that ordered the government to reinstate 30 per cent of civil service job reservations for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters. The appeals court in its verdict after hearing two petitions on July 21 brought down the civil service job reservations...
The wound will cast a long, indelible shadow
THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...
BTV incurs Tk 200-300cr damages in arson attack
Valuables worth around Tk 200-300 crore were damaged during the arson attack on Bangladesh Television building amid the students鈥� protests over quota...
SC set to hear appeal against quota verdict this morning
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to hear the government appeal against the High Court verdict on quota in civil service recruitment at 10:00am today just as the curfew ends...
JS body asks BTV to broadcast quality progs
The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of information and broadcasting on Tuesday suggested Bangladesh Television broadcast quality programs in order to...
Govt appeals against HC verdict on quota
The cabinet secretary on Tuesday filed a petition in the Appellate Division seeking permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that asked the government to maintain...
SC rejects petition for appeal against admission cancellation
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court scrapped the leave to appeal brought against a High Court judgement, upholding the admission cancellation of the 169 students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College of the capital...
SC summons lawyer Mohsen, journalist Kanak
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday summoned lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising, demeaning and maligning the judiciary of Bangladesh in a talk-show...
Passage of budget retains largely all ills opposed to and criticised
THE Finance Bill 2024 has been passed. But the budget for the 2025 financial year in its passage has retained a controversial provision that economists have always been opposed to. The passage of the bill has also failed to handle a few other issues that were considered beneficial for the economy...
DSE independent director Abdullah Al Mahmud faces probes
The Financial Institutions Division of the finance ministry on Wednesday instructed the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission and the Dhaka Stock Exchange to form two separate investigation committees to probe insider trading allegations against DSE independent director Abdullah Al Mahmud...
Police ADC faces forced retirment for relationship with Porimoni
The Public Security Division of the home ministry has sought a suggestion of the Public Service Commission about the 鈥榝orced retirement鈥� of former additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Md Golam Saklain as punishment for his 鈥榠mmoral relationship鈥� with actress Porimoni...