The average size of households in Bangladesh has been decreasing gradually, coming down to 4.06 in 2016 from 4.90 in 2001, according to the recently released Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2016 conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Experts say this trend will yield…

Instead of telephone and Internet bills being paid by the offices concerned, from now on the government is going to provide monthly cash allowance to the bureaucrats who are supposed to get the facility. Like other allowances, the bureaucrats will get “telephone and Internet allowance”,…

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday said he had dissolved the Catalan parliament and called regional elections on December 21 under sweeping…