Bangladesh government

Should Bangladesh be divided into four provinces?

What Bangladesh truly requires is an effective and manageable administrative framework rather than an expansion of the flawed system we currently endure.

Government must make itself available to questions from the press

Bangladesh needs a properly resourced and responsive IG press office, one that regards its audience as the nation and not the elite.

Can the government govern itself?

The problem with parties in Bangladesh is that their activism relies on backward-looking and person-centric politics and revolves around a single leader.

Govt keeps borrowing heavily from BB

The government continues to borrow from Bangladesh Bank on a large scale as commercial banks are now unable to finance the state due to liquidity crunch.

Govt all set to jack up fees for vehicles

The government is going to increase fees for most services provided by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), putting additional financial burden on private and commercial vehicle owners.

'Halt assault on the right to protest'

CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, has called on Bangladesh government to "halt its assault on the right to protest", investigate all violations by both state and non-state actors and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Foreign trips are no gifts to be doled out to state officials

The government must stop this farcical exercise

Ministers are the boss, bureaucrats real boss

Who is calling all the shots in government affairs at the moment, the ministers or the bureaucrats? The answer is pretty obvious.

Accountability, not individual choice, should guide public service

Government officials must be made answerable for their actions and decisions

July 25, 2016
July 25, 2016

Information Minister Inu apologises in parliament

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu apologises in parliament for his comment alleging lawmakers, peoples’ representatives and diplomats being involved in corruption in Test Relief (TR) and Food For Work (FFW) programmes.

July 16, 2016
July 16, 2016

Govt fails to provide security to people: Ershad

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad alleges that the government has completely failed to provide security of the country’s people and stop terrorist attacks.

July 7, 2016
July 7, 2016

Hand over power to a neutral administration: Khaleda to govt

Accusing the government of having failed to check repeated 'terror attacks’ in the country, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia asks the government to quit and hand over power to a neutral administration for holding a credible national election.

June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016

Tavella murder charge sheet ‘politically motivated’: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir criticises the government for framing charges implicating his party leader in connection with the Italian citizen Cesare Tavella murder case.

June 27, 2016
June 27, 2016

All govt services in ‘2041’

The government is set to introduce a short code of ‘2041’ to offer all the government services under a single platform.

June 27, 2016
June 27, 2016

Cabinet okays $12.65b Russian credit for Rooppur

The cabinet approves the draft of the inter-state credit agreement between Bangladesh and the Russian Federation for the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

June 25, 2016
June 25, 2016

Robi-Airtel merger defers again

Long awaited telecom merger between Robi and Airtel is deferred once again as the parent companies delayed their agreement till September 26, 2016, according to reports.

June 22, 2016
June 22, 2016

Country turned into ‘police state’: Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleges that the country has been turned into a “police state”.

June 21, 2016
June 21, 2016

‘Encounters’ just to suppress opposition: BNP

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir denounces the government for the recent incidents like “encounters” and says those have been done only to conceal facts and to suppress the political oppositions.

June 14, 2016
June 14, 2016

6 promoted to secretary

The government promotes six of its officials to the rank of secretary.