Bangladesh

Prime Minister Tareque Rahman has said the government wants to build the country by bringing everyone together and provide honest and competent officers with more opportunities to work. He made the remarks while addressing a revenue conference at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the capital on Tuesday. The conference was jointly organised by the Internal Resources Division of the ...

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation has introduced the Pink buses on nine specific routes in and around Dhaka for ensuring safe journeys for women passengers. The buses will be fully run by women bus drivers and conductors with connectivity from all vital places of Dhaka to Motijheel and GPO. These include Notun Bazar (Coca Cola)-Motijheel route via Badda, Rampura, Malibagh, ...

The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the *Special Response Battalion (SRB) Act, 2026, paving the way for the dissolution of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and the establishment of a specialised unit under the police force. The approval was given at the 17th Cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat on Monday. A press release issued by the Cabinet ...

The government has decided to change the country’s fiscal year cycle, with the fiscal year set to run from April 1 to March 31 starting from 2028-29. The 2027-28 fiscal year will be treated as a transitional year and shortened to nine months, from July to March. The decision was approved at a Cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat on ...

A new commission of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been formed with retired Appellate Division judge AKM Asaduzzaman as its chairman. The other two members of the commission are former secretary Jahangir Alam Khan and former National Board of Revenue (NBR) tax commissioner Sajjad Hossain Bhuiyan. The Cabinet Division issued a notification in this regard on Monday night. According to ...

Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Ajit Singh paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister’s Defence Adviser Brigadier General (retd) Dr AKM Shamsul Islam on Monday. The meeting was held at the office of the Defence Adviser at the Armed Forces Division in Dhaka Cantonment. During the meeting, the two sides exchanged greetings and recalled the longstanding friendly bilateral relations between ...

International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Chief Prosecutor Md Aminul Islam said on Monday that Bangladesh has no specific information about the exact status of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is currently staying in India. The Chief Prosecutor made the remarks while responding to questions from journalists in the morning. Aminul Islam said the Bangladesh government had already requested India to ...

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Sunday said the government has undertaken a project worth Tk17 crore for modernising the historic Sholakia Eidgah Maidan before next Eid congregation. “On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the historic Sholakia Eidgah Maidan, the government has undertaken the project for comprehensive development of the Eidgah with all modern facilities,” he ...

A Supreme Court lawyer has served a legal notice on the concerned government agencies asking them to impose an international travel ban on former interim government chief, Prof Muhammad Yunus. Barrister M Ashraful Islam has sent the legal notices, he confirmed on Sunday. It asked a travel ban on the Nobel Laureate for his involvement in handing over measles vaccine ...

Bangladesh is advancing efforts to make government legal aid services more accessible and efficient through digitalisation. A two-day coordination meeting on 15–16 August brought justice sector stakeholders together at BRAC-CDM, Gazipur to support the rollout of the new Digital Legal Aid System under the “Accelerating Digital Legal Aid Services in Bangladesh” project. Implemented by the Directorate of Bangladesh Legal Aid ...