41st BCS police cadre: 100 candidates facing fresh verification
The interim government is re-verifying the background of 100 individuals who passed the 41st Bangladesh Civil Service examinations and were recommended for police cadre jobs.
3w ago
Sheikh clan’s lust for duty-free cars
With an almost decimated opposition and farcical elections, a party nomination from the ruling Awami League was as good as a seat in the parliament.
3w ago
Interim govt struggling on many fronts
The government on around a dozen occasions has backtracked on its decisions during its two months in office, casting doubts about its resolve.
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Mahalaya to Vijaya Dashami: What this year’s Durga Puja predicts
Durga Puja, an annual Hindu festival, celebrates the divine force “Shakti” embodied in Goddess Durga. This year, Mahalaya falls on 2 October, marking the start of Devi Paksha. Durga arrives on 3 October by palanquin, considered inauspicious, and departs on 12 October by horse.
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Cops still afraid to come out of cocoon
An overarching sense of frustration, apprehension, and opportunism prevails over the police force, rendering it virtually dysfunctional.
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Forging unity with islamist parties: Jamaat eyes large electoral alliance
The vacuum in the wake of the Awami League’s departure from the political arena and the BNP’s impending reemergence as number one are leading other parties to peel away from these major players and seek to make their own spheres of alliance.
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BNP forms six panels for reforms
The BNP has formed six committees to formulate the party’s reform proposals in line with its 31-point outline aimed at reforming the constitution and state system and ensuring economic emancipation, said party sources.
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Post-August 5 politics: BNP, Jamaat drifting apart
The taunts and barbs leave little room for doubt that the 33-year-old ties have soured. Since the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government on August 5, BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders have differed in private and in public on various issues, including reforms and election timeframe.
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February 7, 2017
Ex-secy Nurul Huda new CEC
Former secretary KM Nurul Huda has been chosen to lead the next Election Commission. President Abdul Hamid appointed him chief election commissioner last night in line with a constitutional provision, according to a gazette notification issued around 10:00pm.
February 6, 2017
New CEC: Ex-secretary for sure?
The search committee is likely to pick two former secretaries from a list of five for the post of chief election commissioner in the next Election Commission.
February 4, 2017
Ex-bureaucrat may head EC
The six-member search committee is likely to propose the names of two former bureaucrats for the post of chief election commissioner of the next Election Commission.
January 8, 2017
Parliamentary Polls: AL wants EC to fund campaign
The ruling Awami League is drafting a set of proposals seeking some radical reforms in the electoral laws in efforts to cap campaign spending in parliamentary polls, sources have said.
January 5, 2017
Next national polls to be 'very tough'
The next parliamentary polls, to be held in 2019, would be very tough for the ruling Awami League, said AL President Sheikh Hasina and asked her party colleagues to start preparing for it from now on.
December 28, 2016
EC Formation: Workers Party proposes constitutional council
The Workers Party of Bangladesh urged President Abdul Hamid to form a constitutional council that will propose names for the posts
December 19, 2016
AL asks BNP to have faith in president
Senior leaders of the ruling Awami League asked the BNP to keep faith in President Abdul Hamid, saying the next Election Commission to be formed by him would be acceptable to all.
December 18, 2016
I got upazila chairman 'elected'
A ruling party lawmaker of Natore yesterday said he had to do a lot of things to make his party-backed candidate winner though the contestant had actually lost the 2014 upazila elections.
December 15, 2016
AL probe finds instigation from cops, mills authorities
There was instigation from the Rangpur Sugar mills authorities as well as the police behind the incident that happened centering the eviction of Santals in Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila on November 6, finds an Awami League probe.
November 24, 2016
No arrest without permission
Without permission from the government, a civil servant cannot be arrested for a criminal offence committed while on official
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