THE government鈥檚 decision to provide every MP with two repeater weapons is an indication of concern about an escalation of violence that might target parliamentarians as the election approaches. A defence ministry letter to the parliamentary secretariat states that in view of the violence of the Aragalaya period, a decision has been made to provide...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, demanded the interim government to hold parliament election within 90 days since the parliament was dissolved...
THE deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left the country after she resigned. The parliament has been dissolved. The president is now in full charge. But, no interim government has yet been installed to look after the affairs of the state. And, this has left the country with a constitutional and political void, which is not good for any modern-day state...
Bangladesh president Mohammed Shahabuddin has dissolved the parliament following a high-stakes meeting with key stakeholders, including the chiefs of the three armed forces, leaders of various political parties, civil society representatives and leaders of Student Movements Against Discrimination on Tuesday.
Coordinators of Student Movements Against Discrimination issued an ultimatum to the Bangladesh president to dissolve the Parliament by 3:00pm.
A Parliamentary caucus on gender and inclusion has been formed with the goal of promoting the participation of women, persons with disabilities, and other underprivileged groups in government initiatives and programs...
The parliamentary standing committee on road transport and bridges ministry on Thursday emphasised the importance of incorporating psychological tests while appointing BRTC drivers...
TWO recent events have shattered complacency about the specter of a fascist takeover globally that a number of us have been warning about for some time now. In Europe, far-right parties scored impressive gains in the elections to the European Parliament in June. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany and other like-minded parties...
Jatiya Party chairman Ghulam Mohammad Quader on Wednesday criticised the government for keeping quota in the name of freedom fighters in government jobs....
Md Mostafizur Rahman, arrested in a case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 constituency parliament member Anwarul Azim Anar in India鈥檚 West Bengal, made confessional statement before a Dhaka court on Friday...
The Local Government (Union Parishad) (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was passed in the parliament on Monday, introducing a provision for appointing administrators to union parishads after the elected representatives鈥� five-year tenure expires...
The Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday passed the Tk 7,97,000 crore national budget for FY25 setting a goal for achieving 6.75 per cent gross domestic product growth and...
The parliament passed the Finance Bill 2024 on Saturday while retaining in it the controversial provision of legalising undeclared wealth by paying a...
Deputy speaker of the parliament and Pabna-1 constituency鈥檚 member of parliament advocate Shamsul Huq Tuku was flown to Dhaka by helicopter for emergency treatment after suddenly falling ill....
The finance bill for the upcoming financial year 2024鈥�25 is likely to be passed in parliament on Saturday, with the government backtracking from the imposition of a 25 per cent duty on car imports by lawmakers...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina told Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday that there remained some legal complications regarding bringing the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party action chairman, Tarique Rahman, back to the country from the United Kingdom...
Health minister Samanta Lal Sen on Tuesday said that the work was under way to create a shared health record for every citizen, providing a unique health ID...
THE underplayed defeat for his government by 32 seats in the parliamentary elections, with a whopping loss of 63 BJP MPs from the previous tally, may have reined in prime minister Modi鈥檚 self-obsessed march on Indian democracy for now. His new and untested experiment with a coalition government has just begun, with the opening of the 18th Lok Sabha on June 24...
The Interactive Professional Development Initiatives Foundation and the Bangladesh Institute of Parliamentary Studies organised a workshop on Monday focused on raising awareness of non-communicable diseases and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation...
HALF of the world鈥檚 population will have the opportunity to vote by the end of this year as 64 countries and the European Union are scheduled to open their ballot boxes. No previous year has been so flush with elections. Among these countries is India, where a remarkable 969 million voting papers had to be printed ahead of the elections...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 democratic backslide is manifest not only in the erosion of the electoral culture and the holding of managed elections but also in the complete dominance of businessmen in parliament and local government bodies...
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday requested the members of parliament to set a noble example by amending the privilege of importing duty-free cars for personal use....
Opposition chief whip Mujibul Haque Chunnu on Wednesday in parliament demanded that the government takes stern action against former police chief Benazir Ahmed while Benazir sought 15 days鈥� time to the Anti-Corruption Commission to face interrogation...
THE most important outcome of the results of the recent parliamentary elections in India is that the nightmare for Indian Muslims is over...
The British parliament dissolved on Thursday ahead of a July 4 general election, which looks set to bring Labour to power after 14 years of Conservative rule....
The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry for home affairs recommended increasing the number of passport offices in Dhaka to deliver better services to the city dwellers...
The High Court on Tuesday asked the jail authorities to respond in 30 days to a lawyer鈥檚 letter seeking post-mortem reports of 13 leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, who died in jail custody before January 7 parliamentary elections and in the aftermath of it...
BANGLADESH Television, a state-owned national TV network that has already been suffering from a trust deficit for acting as a mouthpiece for governments that came into power, has been implementing a government decision that undermines principles of media freedom...
The parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of information and broadcasting has directed the state-run Bangladesh Television to prioritise the recommendations from the local lawmakers in appointing district correspondents...
