The Public Service Commission wants to upgrade the statuses and salaries of its chairperson to that of a Supreme Court’s Appellate Division judge and its members to those of High Court judges.
Almost 41 percent of the population aged between five and 24 years were not in educational institutions last year, says a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
The rate of Caesarean section (C-section) deliveries in Bangladesh has increased by more than nine percent in one year.
The Election Commission has made its own officials the returning officers and assistant returning officers for the elections to 152 upazila parishads scheduled for May 8.
It was as early as 6:30am on the sunny spring morning of March 17, 1975.
The government has at last introduced the automated fuel pricing mechanism that will see the domestic fuel prices adjust in line with the prices in the international market every month.
Mang Pu Mro, 78, from Kranchipara of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila, is among the last seven speakers, all of whom are elderly, of Rengmitcha language.
Private universities are seeing enrolments for their undergraduate and postgraduate courses picking up after a drop during the pandemic.
Violation of the electoral code of conduct has more than doubled in the last eight days compared to the previous 34 days, shows Election Commission data.
Although there are laws in place to limit the expenditure of political parties in electioneering ahead of polls, the Election Commission lacks a mechanism to monitor such spending, according to some EC officials.
The electoral law permits the ruling Awami League and opposition Jatiya Party to spend up to Tk 4.5 crore each as campaign expenditure for the January 7 polls
The Election Commission has approved 20,773 local observers from 84 organisations to monitor the January 7 national elections.
At least 102 of the electoral rules violators are ruling Awami League candidates, shows data from the Election Commission.
Members of BGB, coast guard and Rab will remain deployed for 13 days from December 29 to assist the civil administration during the parliamentary polls, the home ministry said yesterday.
A total of 382 independents are contesting 221 seats in the January 7 parliamentary polls, meaning more independents are running this time than in the last three national elections.
The Election Commission has decided to send ballot papers to all polling centres, except for those in remote and hard-to-reach areas, on the morning of the election day in efforts to increase transparency.
The Election Commission yesterday asked the government to take measures so that no political programmes other than for electioneering take place from December 18.
At least 30 aspirants appealed with the Election Commission challenging the returning officers’ decision accepting the nomination bid of their opponents.