After a six-year gap since the last Ducsu polls in 2019, the Dhaka University authorities are now gearing up for an election early next year.
Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee will jointly lead the process
The government has drafted a list of around 3,500 cadre posts to be filled through the 47th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination. The number may increase, making it the largest BCS circular in the last 11 cycles, confirmed sources at the Chief Adviser’s Office and the Public Service Commission.
Say student coordinators after nationwide discussions
The public administration ministry is yet to publish the gazette notification of the 43rd BCS, even nine months after the Public Service Commission (PSC) recommended the appointment of 2,805 candidates, causing frustration among the aspirants.
Buet authorities have announced that students cannot be members of any political organisation, be it on campus or outside.
Several recruitment tests for different government posts, including the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations, have been postponed since mid-July, causing concerns among the jobseekers already frustrated by a backlog of tests.
Trumpeted as a champion of democracy over the last 15 years by her party colleagues and followers, Sheikh Hasina, 77, has become a pariah overnight.
With his son’s victory in Wednesday’s upazila chairman polls in Subarnachar, local Awami League lawmaker Ekramul Karim Chowdhury have further consolidated his grip on politics, said party insiders.
The government has reduced the salary of an assistant commissioner (land) of Bogura sadar upazila for 12 months after he was found guilty of forgery.
The ruling Awami League issues some directives and makes some strategic decisions before local government polls, but its ranks hardly ever abide by those.
Awami League lawmakers’ urge to tighten their grip on the grassroots seems to be prevailing over the party president’s directive to have their family members and close relatives withdraw from the upazila parishad polls.
Nestled among the busy bookshops of Nilkhet, Royal Tehari House is a shop that offers students a delectable treat without burning a hole in their pockets.
The price cap on 29 commodities exists on paper only as most of those items are being sold at prices higher than those fixed by the government.
Mymensingh and Cumilla cities go to polls today to pick their mayors and councillors, just two months after the Awami League formed a new government.
Despite 13-day-long vigorous campaigning by mayoral candidates in Cumilla City Corporation by-polls that ended last night, there is no apparent enthusiasm among voters.
With incidents of clashes, shootouts, and murders, the ruling Awami League has been reeling from infighting since January’s national polls.
As predicted by many, tensions within the Awami League did escalate in the aftermath of the recently held parliamentary polls, where party nominated candidates faced strong opposition from their colleagues.
