Role of women MPs in reserved seats needs a critical rethink
Parliament must be a place where leaders passionately engage in policymaking
Politics of confrontation must end
The Parliament Secretariat will return Tk 80 crore to the government, as Covid-19 pandemic forced fewer working days in holding parliament session, and fewer foreign tours and training programmes.
The ‘Anti-Discrimination Bill 2022’ was placed in the parliament today to protect, uphold and ensure equal rights and dignity of every Bangladeshi citizen.
The 12th session of the current parliament may only have three sittings (working day) considering the deteriorating scenario of Covid-19 pandemic throughout the country and globally, sources at the Parliament Secretariat said today.
Coming down heavily on institutional corruption within the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh, a parliamentary body today asked its top officials to take stern action against it.
Two BNP lawmakers came down heavily on the government today in parliament, for what the MPs termed "ongoing extrajudicial killings", and demanded that the Home Minister give a statement in the House on whether the country’s citizens would get equal scope to take shelter under the law.
The Bangladesh Travel Agency (Registration and Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was placed in Parliament keeping a provision of maximum six months’ imprisonment or Tk 5 lakh fine or both in the case of violation of any provision under the proposed law.
There will be another session of the 10th parliament at a convenient time in October after the current 22nd session, which began yesterday, concludes on September 20 with 10 working days.
A three-member BNP delegation is now in India and holding talks with the country's leading think-tanks over different issues, including the parliamentary elections of Bangladesh likely in December.
The parliament unanimously grants two more months for further scrutiny of the controversial Digital Security Bill-2018. The Jatiya Sangsad passed a proposal in this regard by a voice vote.
The Jatiya Sangsad will go into its 20th session on April 8 after a 38-day vacation.
The 17th session of the 10th parliament is set to begin on September 10 at 5:00pm.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses disappointment at the Supreme Court verdict which upheld illegality of the 16th amendment of the constitution.
The parliament expresses deep shock at the death of over 100 people, including four army men, in hillslides in Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban.
The sitting of the sixteen session (Budget session) of the 10th parliament resumes with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution to enact a law for punishing those who will “distort” the country’s history of 1971 Liberation War and the mass killing.
The House unanimously adopts a resolution to observe March 25 as Genocide Day, marking the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25, 1971.
