Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman yesterday held a series of high-level bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the US, Russia, China and Pakistan on the sidelines of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Manila, the Philippines.

On July 23, 2024, amid the raging protests led by Students Against Discrimination (SAD), the public ad-ministration ministry issued a circular slashing quota-based recruitment in civil service to seven percent and raising merit-based recruitment from 44 to 93 percent.

Thousands of kidney patients will have to wait longer for expanded and affordable dialysis services as a government project to set up dialysis facilities at 59 hospitals has been extended by another two and a half years.

The remains of renowned author, thinker Ahmed Sofa were exhumed and reburied in the section reserved for intellectuals at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard yesterday at noon, nearly 25 years after his death.

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His grave was moved from the general section to the intellectuals' section of Mirpur graveyard

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The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) does not include issues that are political in nature, said Indra Mani Pandey, the regional body’s secretary general, yesterday.

Judges of International Crimes Tribunal-1 are likely to visit two alleged secret detention centres in Dhaka, known as Aynaghar, where victims of enforced disappearance were allegedly held and tortured for years.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman may reassign ministerial portfolios or appoint new ministers if he feels any cabinet member is not performing satisfactorily, said his Information and Broadcasting Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman yesterday.

Addressing rumours that she had fled the country, then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina told nearly 450 business leaders gathered at her office on July 22, 2024, “Sheikh Hasina does not flee”.

Marking the first anniversary of the Milestone School and College tragedy that claimed 36 lives, mostly children, speakers yesterday called for declaring July 21 as “Burn Awareness Day” to promote nationwide awareness and help prevent burn injuries.

As part of preparations for local government elections, the Election Commission (EC) yesterday finalised a set of recommendations to amend laws governing the country’s five tiers of local government -- union parishads, municipalities, upazila parishads, city corporations and zila parishads.