Bangladesh

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 ...

The Election Commission (EC) has declared the nomination paper for BNP presidential candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is valid. AMN Nasir Uddin, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) announced the decision around 11:50AM after thoroughly scrutinizing the paper at the Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital’s Agargaon on Sunday (August 16). “After scrutiny, I declare the nomination of your candidate valid,” the CEC ...

The Election Commission (EC) has declared the nomination papers of Colonel Oli Ahmed, the 11-party alliance backed presidential candidate, valid. Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin scrutinised his nomination papers on Sunday (August 16) at the Election Commission building in his capacity as the ‘election officer.’ Meanwhile, the nomination papers of BNP and its like-minded parties’ candidate Mirza Fakhrul Islam ...

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday said ensuring access to justice is an integral part of protecting human rights and it is the responsibility of the state to ensure that citizens can exercise their inherent and universal rights. “Access to justice is not limited to dispute resolution or mediation; rather, its core objective is to preserve, ...