The last sessions of two-day deputy commissioner (DC)-district magistrate-level conference between Bangladesh

The result of ninth Bangladesh Judiciary Service written test was published yesterday.

Speakers at a dialogue yesterday emphasised the need for enacting a law on right to food in the country to ensure food security.

The United Nations has renewed its call on the Bangladesh government to immediately impose a moratorium on capital punishment and abolish the practice altogether.

The government has decided to appoint Rabab Fatima, director general (East Asia and Pacific) in the Foreign Ministry, as the next

The government is trying to ensure that no deaths will occur due to lack of safety at workplace in the country, said Syed Ahmed,

The High Court yesterday asked the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why the final results of the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination, published on August 29, should not be declared illegal.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that had stayed a move to transfer the case filed against an army officer allegedly for torturing his wife to military court from a special tribunal.

Around two and a half years after it was approved in principle, a proposed law to protect the biodiversity got the cabinet's final endorsement yesterday.

Although two months have passed, Saudi Arabia is yet to compensate the Bangladeshis who were killed and injured in a deadly stampede during Hajj this year, Religious Minister Motiur Rahman told parliament last evening.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last night said some countries have been jointly exerting pressure on the government to make it say that global terror outfit Islamic State (IS) has presence in Bangladesh.

Dhaka's potential cumulative damage from intense rainfalls would stand at Tk 11,000 crore in the next 35 years, a World Bank study estimates. This damage will be caused by waterlogging and urban flooding, and does not include the impact of climate change. In a changing climate scenario with more intense rain, the estimated loss would be Tk 13,900 crore in the 2014-2050 period.

Asif A Chowdhury, honorary consul of Chile in Bangladesh, was elected as a member of World Federation of Consuls (FICAC)-Board of Directors for the next three years after securing the highest number of votes among Saarc candidates.

A Bangladeshi delegation led by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday left for Malta to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2015) on November 27-29.

The High Court asks the authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why the results of the 34th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations published on August 29 should not be declared illegal.

A total of 135 police personnel of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) have been promoted to different ranks in Sylhet yesterday.

Md Emran Uddin, 38, is suffering from kidney failure and needs an immediate kidney transplantation.

Democratic practice inside parties and an improved political culture are the pre-requisites for holding credible election to local government institutions in a partisan manner, experts and elected public representatives said at a views-exchange meeting yesterday.

“Anti-Corruption Commission (amendment) Bill, 2015” was placed in parliament last night aimed at relieving the anti-graft body of dealing with cheating and forgery cases.

Thirteen treasury bench MPs were in high praise of the government on a point of order last night, hailing and congratulating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for executing the capital punishment of two top war criminals early Sunday.