After announcing a new pay scale for government employees in September, the government is now prepping to form a pay commission for six months to fix salaries of workers in different government industries and organisations. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs yesterday approved the Labour Ministry’s…

The presidents of China and Taiwan will meet this weekend in Singapore with a handshake that will mark a seismic shift in a relationship frozen in enmity since 1949, reports AFP from Taipei. When Taiwan’s leader Ma Ying-jeou meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping it will be an unprecedented…

The BJP’s latest newspaper advertisement in Bihar, featuring loaded questions to chief minister Nitish Kumar on cow slaughter, created a controversy on Wednesday with rivals accusing the party of trying to communalise the elections, reports Hindustan Times from Patna. The ad, featuring a woman…

The Election Commission (EC) yesterday drew up draft election rules for the Paurasava polls, with a provision for party election expenditure of maximum Tk. 1 lakh in each municipality. The rules say that an independent aspirant for the post of Mayor needs 400 supporters to be a candidate in the municipality…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday directed parliament secretariat to submit in three months the master plan of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban that was designed by famous architect Louis I Kahn. A three-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha…

A Gaibandha yesterday rejected the bail petition of Manjurul Islam Liton, Awami League MP from Gaibandha-1 constituency, for the third times in a case over shooting a minor boy in Sundarganj upazila, reports UNB. Additional chief judicial magistrate Moynul Hasan Yousuf rejected the bail prayer after…