The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against 11 people, including the former secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration and former president of Ideal School and College, Abu Hena Morshed Zaman and the school鈥檚 former principal Shahana Ara Begum on charges of admitting 107 students to the school illegally...
I WAS not surprised when Columbia University鈥檚 interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to 鈥榬emove individuals from campus and/or arrest them when...
PRICES of various brands of the same medicine vary. They vary depending on on the manufacturers. And, this suggests the absence of proper oversight on drug pricing. This remains a concern as the Directorate General of Drug Administration has only 117 essential drugs on its platter to set the maximum prices for. An earlier estimate shows that Bangladesh manufactures...
Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants including a Bangladeshi detained in the US to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
The BCS (Statistical) Cadre Association, a platform of government statisticians, strongly opposed the public administration reform commission鈥檚 recommendations that excluded their professional service from the proposed restructured civil service framework....
The public administration reform commission, in its full report published on Saturday, recommended cluster-based ministries to boost officials鈥� efficiency and skills.
The Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council on Saturday issued a seven-day ultimatum demanding that the 50 per cent quota for the administration cadre in the deputy secretary pool, as recommended by the Public Administration Reform Commission, be scrapped...
A provincial government system, as proposed by the public administration reform commission on Wednesday, would create multi-dimensional complexities in the country鈥檚 unitary governance system, public administration experts have observed.
The Forest Department and the Dhaka district administration on Thursday arrested three individuals and seized 11 endangered capped langurs (Trachypithecus pileatus) during a raid in Jatrabari鈥檚 Matuail Shamimbagh area...
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has called upon all concerned to accept the reports of the reform commissions and come forward to implement those...
The public administration reform commission on Wednesday proposed major structural changes, including the creation of four provinces, two new administrative divisions and a 鈥榗apital city government鈥�...
The public administration reform commission and the judiciary reform commission are going to hand over their reports with recommendations to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus today.
The High Court on Tuesday directed the public administration secretary to form district-level committees within seven days to curb widespread and unregulated tree felling in cities and towns across the country...
THIS is a welcome move that the Anti-Corruption Commission, which has found that some public servants have secretly obtained dual citizenship and used their foreign passports to conceal their illegal wealth and to syphon money abroad, has begun an inquiry to find out public servants having dual citizenship. The commission, as part of the inquiry, wrote...
Speakers at a seminar held in Dhaka on Saturday condemned arbitrary suspension of officials from education, health, fisheries and livestock cadres, and the public administration reform commission鈥檚 negligence in listening to the voice of those protesting against inter-cadre discrimination...
Bangladesh government has constituted three high-level committees to provide recommendations on recruitment, transfers, and discipline of senior officials under the ministry of public administration, including field administration, as well as senior officials in the police and ministry of foreign affairs....
Tensions within the Bangladesh Civil Service deepened on Thursday as administration cadre officials pushed for exclusive promotions, while officials from the 25 other cadres demonstrated...
Administration cadre officials and other cadres are now facing off over the public administration reforms aimed at freeing the civil service from political influence and inter-cadre discrimination and making it more service-oriented.
Calling all members of the Public Administration Reform Commission 鈥榗ontroversial,鈥� BCS (Admin) Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd general secretary Mashiur Rahman has demanded the resignation of the commission.
Officials of the health and education cadres are planning to make louder their protests against the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals, including separating the health and education sectors from the Bangladesh Civil Service, in the coming weeks...
Administrative service officials and government college teachers have strongly criticised the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals that the commission has finalised for submitting to the interim government...
A COUPLE of recommendations that the commission on public administration reforms, instituted in mid-September, says would make are a welcome move. The commission has said that it would recommend the separation of the health and the education cadre from other cadres the way the judicial cadre has been separated from the...
The public administration reform commission would recommend that the government separate the health and education sectors from the cadre services and merge the remaining cadre services into five clusters.
The Public Administration Reform Commission is set to recommend that no one be promoted to the positions of deputy secretary and joint secretary in the civil service without undergoing an examination, said commission chairman Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury.
The National Board of Revenue on Sunday announced that all online VAT services, including Integrated VAT Administration System, will be unavailable for 96 hours due to a network migration...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party in a series of recommendations to the public administration reform commission has sought action against party-biased and corrupt officials working in the administration in the past 16 years...
BNP on Thursday submitted its recommendations to the police administration reform commission...
PASSPORT, road transport administration, law enforcement and judicial services have come up to be the top four corrupt services sectors from 2017 to 2023, as Transparency International Bangladesh surveys for 2023, 2021 and 2017, the latest three of the surveys that the corruption watchdog have published since 1997, show. In the 2021 and 2017 surveys, the most corrupt service sectors were the same and in the...
Deputy secretaries from 25 different cadres, who have been deprived of promotions, would receive their due advancements in December, said Md Obaidur Rahman, additional secretary of the recruitment, promotion, and transfer (APD) of the ministry of public administration on Tuesday...
The ministry of public administration has directed the relevant ministries, departments, and organisations to take immediate steps to fill 4,75,001 vacant posts in government service...