Secretaries of different ministries and divisions now want identification tags for their official vehicles to flaunt their official status like other chiefs of different services. The secretaries, administrative heads of ministries and divisions, also want new sports unity vehicles (SUVs) with a special…

The government is going to make major changes in secondary education to ensure quality. It will cover the curriculum, textbooks and the exam system. There are plans to introduce a unitary set of questions for all education boards. Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said this at a press conference…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought comprehensive global efforts for water management, urging world leaders to prioritise the water issues in their policies and actions, laying out a seven-point agenda involving the scarce resource, reports BSS. "We must work together (for water management)…

Rohingya leaders have demanded immediate deployment of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Mynmar’s Rakhine State to maintain peace in the troubled region. If peace returned to Myanmar, Rohingya refugees would go back to their own country, they said. The community leaders raised the demand while talking…

The performances by the local artistes earned appreciation on the closing night of the five-day ‘Bengal Classical Music Festival 2016’ at…

The United States has voiced its opinion in favour of forming an independent, strong and non-partisan Election Commission through an inclusive and transparent process. “We took real interest and notice that the honourable Prime Minister herself during the Awami League council made the statement…

The High Court (HC), in its full verdict, has said there is no scope to convict a person under the Mobile Court Ain, 2009, if apprehended or arrested or detained by the police before his/her trial in a mobile court. The court says the entire proceedings of a mobile court “will be vitiated”…