City
The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution PLC is actively engaged in a campaign to address and eliminate illegal gas usage.As a part of the regular operation on June 2, a drive was conducted in Ahmed Plaza, adjacent to Kaliakair Bus Stand, Gazipur area under the jurisdiction of Titas Gas Transmiss...
National,Business,Budget
Planning Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Tuesday termed the budget placed by the interim government "realistic and frugal’.“I will tell this budget realistic and frugal aiming to ensuring a fragile economy into stable one where all financial institutions and all other state organisatio...
Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday hinted at some possible changes in his budgetory proposal in whitening black money in 2025-26 fiscal year.“We are not saying that we have done a great job by giving chance to whiten black money, this might happen sometime due to compulsion, we will l...
National,Education & Culture,Jobs
Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) on Tuesday announced a new roadmap to address session jam and lengthiness in the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) exam processes.According to a PID handout, the BPSC has planned to complete three BCS exams -including 44th, 45th and 48th within this year.The ...
National,Politics
The government in a recent meeting decided to develop a counter-narrative to confront the audio-video propaganda on the social media platforms to maintain the country’s overall law and order.“A decision was taken in principle to prepare a narrative to counter the untrue and baseless audi...
National,Business,City
The government has banned the transportation of rawhide to Dhaka from other districts for 10 days starting the Eid-ul-Azha.The commerce ministry on Tuesday issued a notification in this regard, signed by its senior information officer Md Kamal Hossain.Earlier, the government on May 25 fixed the pric...
National,Sports,Cricket
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule questioning the legality of the National Sports Council's (NSC) decisions to remove Faruque Ahmed from the post of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president and appoint Aminul Islam Bulbul as his successor.In the rule, the court asked the authorities concer...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur on Tuesday said inflation is expected to come down to a reasonable level earlier than the target set in the FY2025-26 budget, thanks to a stabilised exchange rate.“A fluctuating exchange rate is one of the challenges for increasing inflation. On the o...
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Tuesday said Bangladesh will send a fresh ‘substantive’ letter to India reminding them of set mechanisms to deal with the push-ins, noting that push-in is still happening."We will give them a fresh letter (diplomatic note) today or tomorr...
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday strongly criticised the interim government for keeping a provision in the proposed budget that allows the whitening of black money. “You (interim govt) have presented a budget of Tk 7 lakh 90 thousand crore. What is the diffe...
National
The government is going to form a high-level committee to review the recently promulgated Government Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 due to widespread objections from government employees.Law Adviser Asif Nazrul made the announcement while speaking to reporters after receiving a memorandum from ...
Government officials staged demonstrations for the 11th consecutive day at the Secretariat on Tuesday, demanding the repeal of the 'Government Service (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025'.The protesters staged a demonstration in front of the No 4 building of the Secretariat around 11 am and brought ...
Finance Adviser Saluhuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said the interim government has moved away from previous emphasis on high growth figures and focused on people's welfare in the proposed budget for FY2025-26."We have stepped back from the constant focus on growth. Who has really achieved such rem...
Prof Ali Riaz, vice-president of the National Consensus Commission, on Tuesday laid emphasises on identifying areas where political parties can reach a minimum level of agreement and preserving those for the sake of national unity."What matters is that we find common ground – areas where ...
National,Country
No unfit vehicle will be allowed to operate on roads even after their facelift during the upcoming Eid travel, Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Choudhury said on Tuesday.“Sometimes vehicle owners try to cover unfit vehicles by giving them a fresh coat of paint and then send the...
National,Jobs
The interim government has announced a special allowance for government employees with effect from July 1, according to a circular issued by the Finance Division under the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday.Under the new provision, employees in Grade-1 and above to Grade-9 will receive a 10 percent allo...
BNP on Tuesday said it wants only the national election to be held under a non-party caretaker government and supports the 90-day tenure for such a non-party election-time government. “Our party does not want local government elections to be held under a caretaker government,” BNP S...
National,Business,Politics,City,Country
A section of agitated workers damaged a police vehicle and engaged in chase and counter-chase near Jinnat Knitwear Ltd. factory at Nayanpur Notun Bazar of Sreepur in Gazipur on Tuesday morning, following the death of a worker who reportedly jumped from the factory's roof last night.During the un...
A group of people under the banner of ‘July Oikyo’ staged demonstrations and held march towards the Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital Tuesday afternoon, demanding what they said an end to ‘foreign influence in Bangladesh's internal affairs’.The march began from the Na...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday proposed that both national and local government elections be held under a non-partisan caretaker government.“Our proposal is that both national and local elections must take place under a caretaker government,” Jamaat’s Nayeb-e-Ameer Dr Syed A...
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