The government has appointed new Deputy Commissioners (DCs) in 15 districts. of them, six officials have been transferred, while nine new faces have been appointed. The Ministry of Public Administration has issued a notification in this regard on Satur day night (November 8). According to the order, Bagerhat DC Ahmed Kamrul Hasan has been transferred to Noakhali, Kushtia DC Abu ...

As per pre-announcement, the government primary school teachers startedindefinite work abstention for implementation of three key demands, including 10th-grade pay. As a result, classes have been suspended for nearly 10 million students in more than 65,000 schools. Since Saturday, assistant teachers across the country launched sit-in at Central Shaheed Minar in the capital demanding urgent reforms in pay and promotion ...

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman has said the interim government’s foremost responsibility is to establish a democratic and accountable administration through elections, not to serve the interest of any particular political party. He made the remark while speaking virtually at a Hindu Representatives’ Conference organized by the Matua Bahujan Samaj Oikya Jote at Krishibid Institute in Dhaka ...

The Home Secretary is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month, the BBC has learned. Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system – seen as one of the toughest in Europe. It is understood officials have been looking at Denmark’s tighter rules on family reunion and ...

Jeremy Corbyn’s new left-wing party is in a stand-off over £800,000 held by Zarah Sultana, who is meant to be founding the party with him. The funds are from the initial wave of donations when the movement, currently operating under the name Your Party, was announced in July. While Your Party was being formally registered, the money was collected by ...

For the first time in its nearly 700-year history, the Lord Mayor’s Show this year became the Lady Mayor’s Show. Dame Susan Langley DBE is not the City of London’s first female lord mayor – she’s the third in 697 years – but she is the first to take the lady mayor title. The show is a procession from the ...

London’s historic Highgate Cemetery is set for an £18m regeneration after the local authority approved plans to improve the site. Camden Council has approved plans to overhaul the north London site as part of a 25-year “revitalisation” project to combat the effects of climate change and general decay, restore existing structures and construct new buildings. One of capital’s “magnificent seven” ...

A residential school described as a lifeline for autistic children will close next month after a south London council agreed it could no longer keep it open. Bradstow School, in Kent, will shut on 31 December after the Wandsworth Council’s cabinet approved its closure, following what officers described as the “only option” left amid ongoing financial challenges. The council had ...

Assistant teachers of government primary schools faced police obstruction during their march from Central Shaheed Minar toward Shahbagh on Saturday afternoon. Law enforcement deployed water cannons, tear gas, and sound grenades around 3:30 PM, leaving several teachers injured and dispersing the procession. The protest was part of a larger movement that began at 9:00 AM, with thousands of teachers gathering ...

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has urged political parties not to take to the streets repeatedly over demands for a referendum, saying the current constitution does not provide for one. Speaking at a dialogue on “Janatar Ishtehar” at Hotel InterContinental in Dhaka on Saturday (November 8), he said, “The interim government was formed under the current constitution ...