Yunus calls for recruitment plan to fill 172,000 government vacancies

Dhaka, March 20 -- The interim government has been grappling with a manpower crisis as around 172,000 positions remain vacant across different ministries and departments. Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus... Read More

Interim cabinet approves tweaked Public Procurement Ordinance to 'break syndicates'

Dhaka, March 20 -- The advisory council has approved the revised Public Procurement Ordinance designed to dismantle the syndicate and increase transparency in the government procurement process. As a... Read More

Remittances cross $2.25bn in 19 days, up 78pc

Dhaka, March 20 -- Remittance inflows have surpassed $2 billion in the first 19 days of March, according to Bangladesh Bank data. On Thursday, the central bank reported that expatriates sent $2.25 bi... Read More

Baisabi: Bangladesh announces holiday for three hill districts on Apr 13

Dhaka, March 20 -- The interim government has issued a holiday by executive order in three hill districts on the occasion of the Biju or Baisabi festival celebrated by ethnic minority communities in B... Read More

Maximum 7 years in jail for using marriage promise to solicit sexual relationship, ordinance coming

Dhaka, March 20 -- The advisory council of the interim government has approved a revision of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, setting the maximum sentence for soliciting a sexual rela... Read More

Lower secondary classes in government primary schools scrapped

Dhaka, March 20 -- The interim government has decided to suspend the lower secondary level classes introduced in government primary schools in line with the latest National Education Policy. The grad... Read More

Tarique, Babar among eight acquitted of bribery charges in Sabbir killing case

Dhaka, March 20 -- A Dhaka court has acquitted eight individuals, including BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, of charges involving taking Tk 210 million i... Read More

Justice Khizir Hayat dismissed from High Court Division

Dhaka, March 20 -- Justice Khizir Hayat has been removed from the Supreme Court's High Court Division after he was sent on leave following political changeover in the wake of the July Uprising. Presi... Read More

Aug 21 case: State petitions to appeal against acquittal of all suspects

Dhaka, March 19 -- The state has petitioned to appeal against the High Court verdict acquitting all 49 suspects sentenced by the Speedy Trial Tribunal in the Aug 21 Bangabandhu Avenue grenade attack c... Read More

Democracy will be buried again if religious extremism isn't stopped, says Tarique

Dhaka, March 19 -- BNP's Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has warned that if religious extremism is not controlled, the "obituary" of democracy will once again be written in Bangladesh. Speaking virtua... Read More

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