The High Court on Monday directed the government to submit a report on December 15 on the formation of a National Independent Investigation Committee to thoroughly investigate the February 25鈥�26, 2009, massacre at the then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters...
Jatiya Nagarik Committee on Monday urged Bangladesh interim government to review the country鈥檚 agreements with India and scrap the ones that go against national interests.
Jatiya Nagorik Committee staged a protest on Wednesday night at Dhaka University鈥檚 Raju Sculpture, condemning the attempted murder of Anti-Discrimination Students Movement conveners Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Monday approved five projects involving an overall estimated cost of Tk 5,915.99 crore, including one for improving the sewerage system of Chattogram (catchment 2 and 4) with around Tk 5,152.55 crore...
The National Review Committee on the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources on Sunday requested the interim government to hire a reputed legal and investigative firm to assist in its review of major power generation contracts signed during the Sheikh Hasina regime between 2009 and 2024...
Speakers at a cultural programme on Saturday called for unity in diversity to establish a discrimination-free society in the country...
THE demand for free, fair and transparent elections has become pronounced. The issue is reflected in a decision of the interim government to form the election commission reforms committee. Tasked with revamping the election commission to enhance its independence, transparency and public trust, the committee work represents a critical step...
The Committee on Freedom of Association of the International Labour Organisation urged the government of Bangladesh to ensure that the case of Grameenphone Employees Union pending before a labour court in Dhaka is concluded without further delay...
Leaders of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Wednesday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the interim government headed by...
The search committee has called upon political parties, professional bodies and individuals to propose nominations by November 7 to form the next Election Commission.聽聽聽
Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury will head a six-member search committee to recommend people for the offices of the chief election commissioner and four other election commissioners.
Adviser for law, justice and parliamentary affairs Asif Nazrul said that the next national elections could be arranged by the next year after completing the pre-election preparations, including...
The National Citizens鈥� Committee, a recently launched platform of citizens who were directly involved in the July student-people movement that ensured the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on...
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council on Monday approved a Taka 11,560.77 crore new rail-cum-road bridge project over the River Karnaphuli at Kalurghat beside the existing old bridge to ensure smooth and uninterrupted communication system between Chattogram and Cox鈥檚 Bazar.
Bhabadah Water Mitigation Movement Committee on Sunday held a sit-in on the premises of the Jashore deputy commissioner office, demanding the solution to water strangulation problem...
The Democratic Rights Committee on Saturday presented 13 proposals to the interim government to restore stability and resolve the ongoing crisis in the country...
ISSUES of national education have recently come to the fore, with the cancellation of a textbook review and revision committee on September 28 apparently amidst opposition by some right-wing Islamist groups after it was formed on September 15. The process of national education also came to be questioned when the authorities cancelled the...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has decided to form six shadow reform committees to place proposals to six reform commissions constituted earlier by the interim government...
Some students of Dhaka University have protested against the cancellation of the textbook revision committee and labelling Professor Samina Luthfa of sociology department of the university as 鈥榓nti-Islam鈥� on Monday.
Transparency International Bangladesh on Monday said that the interim government has set a worrisome and risky precedent by compromising policy decisions in response to self-interested radical threats.
A four-member fact-finding committee was formed on Sunday evening by the vice-chancellor of Dhaka University, Niaz Ahmed, to identify those involved in the violent incidents that took place on Dhaka University campus during student-led mass uprising between July 15 and August 5, 2024.
Member secretary of the National Citizens鈥� Committee and former social welfare secretary of Dhaka University Central Student Union, Akhter Hossen, at a rally on Sunday said that India used to open barrage on Teesta without prior notice...
THE dissolution of the textbook review and revision committee, formed on September 15, and the criticism, controversy, demands and counter-demands that led to the dissolution is concerning on a few counts. The Secondary and Higher Education Division on September 28 dissolved the 10-member committee meant to review textbooks of the...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Wednesday approved a total of four development projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 1,222.14 crore.
Former president of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, Shahriar Kabir, was arrested in Dhaka鈥檚 Tejgaon area on Monday night...
The National Citizens鈥� Committee, a recently launched platform of citizens who were directly involved in the July student-people movement that ensured Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall, on Saturday said that they were not satisfied with the one-month performance of Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government...
Youths who were at the forefront during the student-led mass uprising that overthrew the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, on Sunday launched a platform named Jatiya Nagarik Committee aiming at...
The National Citizens Committee made its debut at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Sunday as a platform to nurture the hopes and aspirations of the sections of society that participated in Students Movement Against Discrimination to topple the previous Awami League-led government on August 5.
Public administration ministry deputy secretary Nurjahan Khanom and Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, under planning ministry, director Saiful Islam have been elected as convener and joint convener respectively of the 24th BCS administration cadre service adhoc committee.
