The Public Service Commission wants to upgrade the statuses and salaries of its chairperson to that of a Supreme Court’s Appellate Division judge and its members to those of High Court judges.
Almost 41 percent of the population aged between five and 24 years were not in educational institutions last year, says a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
The rate of Caesarean section (C-section) deliveries in Bangladesh has increased by more than nine percent in one year.
The Election Commission has made its own officials the returning officers and assistant returning officers for the elections to 152 upazila parishads scheduled for May 8.
It was as early as 6:30am on the sunny spring morning of March 17, 1975.
The government has at last introduced the automated fuel pricing mechanism that will see the domestic fuel prices adjust in line with the prices in the international market every month.
Mang Pu Mro, 78, from Kranchipara of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila, is among the last seven speakers, all of whom are elderly, of Rengmitcha language.
Private universities are seeing enrolments for their undergraduate and postgraduate courses picking up after a drop during the pandemic.
The 12th parliament goes into its maiden session tomorrow in the absence of a “genuine opposition” that can hold the government accountable.
The government has made lesser allocations for the education and health sectors than what is projected in the 8th five-year plan, raising questions about its commitment to these critical areas.
A planning commission meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday after eight years took three vital decisions to ensure timely completion of projects and avoid cost overruns.
The number of political parties in parliament since the restoration of democracy in 1991 seems to be shrinking.
Awami League bagged less votes in the January 7 national polls compared to the previous two general elections, according to Election Commission data.
Two polling centres posted a hundred percent voter turnout each in Sunday’s election, while two others recorded a 98 percent turnout, according to Election Commission’s centre-wise data.
As the nation goes to polls today for a third straight time under Sheikh Hasina-led government, the outcome is already a foregone conclusion. The 12th parliamentary election will go down in history as a race between Awami League candidates and Awami League “independents”.
The main challenge for the Election Commission will be to hold a peaceful, acceptable election with high voter turnout as campaigning ended with violations of the electoral code of conduct, violence and little festivity.
The Election Commission will send ballot papers to around 93 percent of the 42,025 polling centres on election day morning.
The Election Commission approved a total of 127 international observers to monitor the 12th national polls slated for January 7.