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...
Leaders from the export-oriented ready-made garments and textile industries urged the government to exempt them from seeking repeated approvals from Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited for the internal reconfiguration of industrial and captive-run installations...
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.
Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday said that they were preparing for the next national elections with two timeframes 鈥� February and April 鈥� in mind...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 57 bank accounts of former social welfare minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed and his wife Hosne Ara Begum over graft allegations...
The Election Commission is expected to finalise the draft delimitation of parliamentary constituencies next week with the review of numerous applications from 76 constituencies now in its final stage...
The National Board of Revenue has made mandatory the online submission of certificates, licenses, and permits issued by 19 agencies under the NBR Single Window System for customs clearance of import and export consignments...
FOR decades, the reformation of both school and higher education in Bangladesh has been a subject of discussion in policy circles, academia and civil society. Today, fresh calls are echoing for the immediate formation of a new education commission to address the deep-rooted challenges that continue to undermine our education system.聽 While several education...
The Election Commission on Sunday invited public opinion by July 10on the final draft of the revised Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Candidates 2025 that proposed ban on posters...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against Rajshahi city Awami League organising secretary Azizul Alam Bentu, his wife, and their son on charges of amassing illegal wealth and concealing assets in their statements submitted to the commission...
The National Consensus Commission on Sunday came up with revisions in the constitutional and statutory appointment committee and the upper house of a bicameral parliament...
The members of the law enforcing agencies arrested four people including their ringleader, who were cheating people identifying them as Anti-Corruption Commission officials, from the capital on Saturday night...
The National Consensus Commission on Sunday began the seventh day of its second-round talks with political parties, aiming to build an agreement on crucial state reform initiatives...
The second-round dialogue of the National Consensus Commission drags on without agreement as deep political polarisation continues to stall progress on some key issues...