What needs to be done in today’s Bangladesh, as the country is trying to move forward?
In the PR system, each party may be required to pay a certain amount of money as security fee against each of its nominated candidates.
If we compare the state to a four-legged chair, the government represents only one leg.
With a parliament dominated by businessmen and their interests, who is going to hold them to account?
The first Bangladeshi parliament marked an ideal beginning.
BNP plans to observe protest programmes like hartal or lay siege to the parliament building on the first day of the parliamentary session of the new government as part of the movement for its one-point demand.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Jatiya Sangsad, five-time lawmaker and president of the ruling alliance partner Workers’ Party, Rashed Khan Menon, talks about what an effective parliament should be like in an interview with Mohiuddin Alamgir of The Daily Star.
Parliament today(June 13, 2022) passed the supplementary budget of Tk 17,524 crore for fiscal 2021-22 to meet the increased expenditures under different ministries and divisions.
A parliamentary body has blamed the foreign ministry behind US sanctions on Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and its officials.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in parliament last night criticised Myanmar for carrying out atrocities on the Rohingyas and said it must take back every Rohingya from Bangladesh, and ensure their safe accommodation and security in Myanmar.
Two separate discussions, one on the Rohingya issue and the other on the apex court's verdict on the 16th constitutional amendment,
The argument for empowering the parliament to remove Supreme Court judges for restoration of 1972 constitution appears as "cheap,
The Jatiya Sangsad no longer has the power to remove Supreme Court judges for incapacity or misconduct as the government has finally lost the legal battle to defend the controversial 16th constitutional amendment that restored this authority of parliament.
Those who had killed and burnt hundreds of people in 2013 and 2014 to foil the last national elections have now taken the path of “secret killings”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tells the Jatiya Sangsad.
Expressing concern over the current situation in Bangladesh, the European Union has pressed for political dialogue in a debate over the country’s issue at its parliament.
The banking sector was tainted by a series of scams, including some massive thefts, according to Finance Minister AMA Muhith.
With a plan to relieve big cities including Dhaka of the pressure of excessive population, Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes to reduce withholding tax rates for real estate sector in the 2016-17 fiscal year budget.
The government has decided not to bring any change to seven tax rates, which include tax-exempted income-threshold for individual tax payers.
It was a shock for British Chancellor of the Exchequer Ward Hunt when he stood up to deliver his budget speech in the House of Commons in 1868, opened the briefcase, and discovered he had left his speech at home.
