All the 30 political parties attending the National Consensus Commission鈥檚 second-round dialogue session on Sunday agreed that the president must seek cabinet approval to declare a state of emergency, also involving the main or deputy opposition leader in the decision-making process...
The National Citizen Party on Sunday reaffirmed its demands for the reconstitution of the Election Commission and the allocation of water lily as the party鈥檚 electoral symbol ahead of the upcoming national election...
The 12th day of second-round reform talks between the National Consensus Commission and the political parties began on Sunday morning to discuss several constitutional issues...
THE Rohingyas, more than a million of them already sheltered in Bangladesh, may face constraints as, keeping to a release of the office of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, there has been a fresh influx of 150,000 Rohingyas in a year and a half. This is described as the largest after the 2017 influx when three quarters of a million Rohingyas left violence...
The Election Commission is moving forward with full swing preparations to hold the 13th parliamentary elections on time.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 64 bank accounts, shares and insurance policies of S Alam Group chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam, and his family members in Singapore...
The interim government on Thursday approved a proposal to establish an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bangladesh -- initially for three years...
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...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against two people including a former director of the Directorate General of Health Services for their alleged involvement in irregularities in setting up the DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 Hospital in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali area under a World Bank-funded project...
The Election Commission on Thursday decided that electronic voting machines would not be used in any future elections...
Key reforms in local government, health, labour, women鈥檚 affairs, and the media have become uncertain as the issues are neither being discussed in the ongoing political consensus-building process nor the interim government has made any progress in reforming those vital areas...
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...