Category: Strategic

Law-enforcing agencies have launched a pre-election joint drive in the capital to arrest criminals. They have a list of around 2,000 ‘criminals’ to arrest during the drive launched on Wednesday midnight.

Dhaka – Newly appointed chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) Ekram Ahmed was sworn in on Tuesday.  Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain administered the oath to him at Judges’ Lounge of the Supreme Court.

There is something for the new pensioners to cheer about. The government on Monday enhanced the rate of surrendered pension money up to 15 percent with effect from December 1.

Speakers at a roundtable here on Saturday said only through employing a multi-sectoral approach can Bangladesh overcome its current alarming scenario of child malnutrition.   Despite the country’s success in reducing child and maternal mortality, malnutrition in children under five years…

The government in an abrupt move has shuffled positions of 22 Joint Secretary-level officials in the public administration less than a month before the parliamentary election.

The nation celebrated the 43rd Victory Day on Monday amid a renewed pledge to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the freedom fighters through ensuring peace and stability in the country and implementing the spirit of the war of liberation.

Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday greeted the war-wounded freedom fighters and their families on the occasion of the great Victory Day.

Thakurgaon, Dec 16 (UNB) – Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi national from Molani-Dharmagar frontier area of the district on Monday.

Dhaka – Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) president Mujahidul Islam Selim on Sunday said the parties of the ruling class are now playing a trick to annihilate democracy in the name of combating communalism.

Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh president Prof Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury has alleged Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) forcibly.

Some 300 candidates, out of 880 across the country, pulled out from the January-5 general electoral race, according to data provided by the Election Commission Secretariat on Saturday.

Chairman of Anti Corruption Commission M Bodiuzzaman on Monday said the speed of activities of the commission has been going downwards after the amendment of the ACC law.

Dhaka – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Sunday evening and apprised him about the country’s overall situation.

UN emissary Oscar Fernandez-Taranco met the leaders of the BNP that leads the Opposition on Sunday. The visiting UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs is trying to broker peace between Bangladesh’s two major political parties and end the impasse.

Visiting UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernández Taranco will sit in a parley with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Sunday morning.

The hearing on the case related to the Bay of Bengal maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India will begin at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Netherlands on Monday.

Children, who comprise more than one-third of Bangladesh’s population, rarely dream to be a politician because of corruption and widespread violence that go with it. A Unicef poll reveals that 74 percent of city children and 65 percent in rural…

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Tuesday urged the two major political parties — ruling Awami League and opposition BNP — to reach a compromise over the election-time cabinet before the time is over.

IANS Agartala, Dec 3: Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) troopers have opposed the construction of a culvert, creating tension along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, an official said here on Tuesday.

Dhaka – Urging the two bickering political camps to reach a consensus, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakiuddin Ahmad on Monday said they could reschedule the election if there is an understanding.

Dhaka – Amid the crippling blockade and worsening political violence, the country’s top business leaders met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tonight (Monday night) and shared their concern over the political instability that has cast a shadow on the economy, especially…

Police turned up at the house of BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed at Pekua Upazila in Cox’s Bazaar, hours after he took the charge as party spokesperson.

President Abdul Hamid flies to Singapore on Sunday night on a five-day visit for his follow-up medical treatment there.

Prime minister’s advisors, city mayors, and various local officials will have to quit their respective posts for contesting parliamentary elections following a latest directive of the country’s Election Commission

BNP chairperson and opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Thursday did not turn up at the Armed Forces Day reception at Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment ‘due to ailment’.

The Armed Forces Day that marks the establishment of Bangladesh military during the country’s War of Liberation will be observed on Thursday with due solemnity and enthusiasm.

Former Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain on Saturday said the Election Commission (EC) cannot claim that it does not have any say in the recent political situation of the country.