Housing and Public Works Minister Jakaria Taher has stressed the imperative of structured urban management across Bangladesh, asserting that national development depends on addressing environmental and structural challenges in elite areas like Gulshan and Baridhara. Speaking as the chief guest Continue Reading

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has initiated an investigation into alleged procurement irregularities and corruption involving approximately 310 million (31 crore) textbooks printed by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB). Officials from the Ministry of Education, the NCTB, and printing press owners face allegations of leaking estimated prices during an Continue Reading

Dhaka’s underworld has spiraled into severe turbulence as professional hitmen and armed terrorists exploit a visible inertia within law enforcement agencies. Police, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), and intelligence agencies have failed to bring the mastermind sponsors and perpetrators behind ten high-profile murders in the capital to justice. Despite names of prominent Continue Reading

Fresh initiatives have commenced to dispatch Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia’s labor market, with over 6,000 quotas already allocated for their recruitment. Applications for the attestation of demand letters against these allocated quotas have been submitted to the Bangladesh High Commission, and several of these demand letters have already been verified and Continue Reading

After holding local government elections on party lines for a decade, the Election Commission (EC) is preparing to conduct the upcoming polls on non-partisan lines. Tailored codes of conduct have been issued for Union Parishads, Upazila Parishads, Municipalities, City Corporations, and Zila Parishads, replacing the 2016 regulations to ensure a level playing field, curb Continue Reading