THE Election Commission鈥檚 decision to deny access to foreign observers who previously endorsed Bangladesh鈥檚 three latest national elections as credible is welcome. The observers played a pivotal role in legitimising the rigged, stage-managed and manipulated 10th, 11th and 12th national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024, thus helping the Awami League to cling to power...
The Election Commission has received approval to begin the voter registration process and issue national identity cards in five countries, including the United States.
The High Court on Wednesday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to reinstate its former deputy assistant director Sharif Uddin within 30 days...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday initiated an inquiry into corruption allegations, including amassing illegal wealth, against former lawmaker of Comilla-4 constituency Abul Kalam Azad and High Speed Group of Companies director Iftekhar Ahmed Masud...
Officers from 25 cadres outside the administration cadre of the Bangladesh Civil Service on Tuesday alleged that the present Public Administration聽Reform Commission was likely to fail and would end up existing only on paper, just as it happened in the past...
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday said that foreign observers who had certified the past three elections as credible would not be allowed to observe the forthcoming parliamentary election...
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has decided to reduce the maximum number of SIM cards a user can register under their name to 10...
The chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant on posts, telecommunications, and information technology Faiz Ahmad Tayyab defended his recent letter to the Anti-Corruption Commission chairman, seeking assistance to keep a telecom project running...
The Anti-Corruption Commission got a total of 12,827 corruption allegations in the past 11 months since the fall of the Awami League regime in August 2024, amid a student-led mass uprising...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze four bank accounts of former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Major General (retired) Hamidul Hoque over allegations of corruption...
All the political parties on Monday agreed to set up civil and criminal courts at the upazila level in phases...
THIS is worrying that public servants, who handle governance issues, have topped the list of people, as Anti-Corruption Commission data show, engaged in corruption such as illegal wealth, bribery, power abuse and illicit financial flows. The public servants are followed by people in private service, businesspeople, politicians and elected representatives. And, the situation keeps...
The involvement of government officials and employees in various forms of corruption, including amassing illegal wealth, bribery, abuse of power, and money laundering, has increased manifold in recent years in Bangladesh.
Differing positions of major political parties on proportional representation in Jatiya Sangsad and the appointment of chief adviser to the election-time caretaker government are expected to stay as challenges in the upcoming dialogue sessions of the National Consensus Commission.
THE Bangladesh Public Service Commission has recently announced the recommended list for the 44th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service. This time, more than 2.7 lakh people applied for 1,710 positions across several cadres. Once notified, nearly 2,000...
Police on Friday afternoon dispersed a group of students and jobseekers who blocked the Shahbagh crossing in the capital demanding reforms in the Public Service Commission and measures against the masterminds of government job recruitment...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against nine people, including senior officials of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training and several manpower agency executives, on charges of document forgery and facilitating the illegal trafficking of women abroad...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an investigation against former Barishal city mayor Abul Khair Abdullah and 18 others of the local government body, confirmed the ACC Barishal divisional office on Thursday...
Sixteen senior National Board of Revenue officials were brought under the Anti-Corruption Commission scrutiny in the past five days in the aftermath of protests by NBR officials over the ongoing revenue sector reforms...
Representatives from 30 political parties on Thursday reached consensus on the establishment of a legally defined clemency board under article 49 of the constitution and the decentralisation of the High Court...
The Election Commission has reinstated the registration of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami with its electoral symbol of the 鈥楽cales鈥� (Daripalla).
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated inquiry against five more officials of the National Board of Revenue over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption...
The price of a 12kg liquefied petroleum gas cylinder has been reduced by Tk 39, bringing the new retail price down to Tk 1,364 for the month of July, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission announced on Wednesday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed three cases against 15 people, including S Alam Group chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam and Reliance Finance Limited former managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk 270 crore through fraudulent loans and money laundering...
The election commission has disposed of 907,662 National Identity Card correction applications in the first half of 2025 under its special 鈥楥rash Programme鈥�...
Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, retired Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, who was the defence and security adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and his wife Shaheen Siddique did not appear at the Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday, disregarding its summon...
All the political parties, in a significant development during the second round of the National Consensus Commission-hosted dialogue on Wednesday, reached a consensus on the formation of a specialised expert committee to oversee the delimitation of constituencies...
Japan is to provide US$4.8 million (695 Japanese yen) as grant to Election Commission of Bangladesh for its 鈥榖allot project鈥� to sensitise voters and enhance the transparency in electoral process.
National Consensus Commission vice-chairman Professor Ali Riaz on Wednesday said every political party in Bangladesh shares a unified stance on restoring the caretaker government system.
The Election Commission has issued a polls guidelines titled 鈥楶olling Centre Establishment and Management Guidelines 2025鈥� for the upcoming national election empowering its own officials with sole authority in setting up polling centres.