Cabinet approves Public Procurement amendment ordinance to protect local industry
The cabinet has given in-principle and final approval to the draft of the ‘Public Procurement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026’ with the aim of protecting the interests of local industry and increasing competition in government procurement. The…
PM orders single syllabus for ministry-based training
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has directed that training programmes running under different ministries be brought under one umbrella and arrangements be made for providing training and certificates under a uniform syllabus. He gave this directive while…
Dr Titumir urges overhaul of global financial architecture
Dr Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, finance and planning adviser to the prime minister, has called for extensive reform of the global financial architecture to ensure affordable, fair and risk-sensitive financing for developing countries. He made the call while…
‘The education system was toyed with for 17 years’: Rizvi
BNP Acting Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that if a nation ignores the importance of education and the education system, it cannot survive in a competitive world. The country’s education system was toyed with over the past 17 years.…
‘5 August did not come suddenly, 17 years of struggle lie behind it’: Water resources minister
Water Resources Minister and BNP Joint Secretary General Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee has said, ‘We had to fight and struggle for 17 years for 5 August. 5 August did not come suddenly. You and we, our students and youths, young men and women,…
Thakurgaon-1 by-election: Interviews of BNP nomination seekers end, decision later
Ahead of the by-election to the Thakurgaon-1 constituency, the party’s national standing committee has interviewed BNP’s nomination seekers. However, who will be the party’s candidate in this constituency will be announced after the…
Try to do Tk 10 crore work for Tk 7-8 crore: LGRD minister to LGED
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has called on officials of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) to implement development projects by ensuring maximum use of the country’s limited…
Body of CoU teacher’s son found in jungle a day after going missing
Police have recovered the body of 13-year-old Apratim, the only child of the couple Dr Nahida Begum, associate professor of the Bangla department of Cumilla University, and KM Firoz Shahriar. He had gone missing after going out with his mother’s…
Car swept away by floodwater in India’s Madhya Pradesh, 8 dead including 7 of a family
Eight people, including seven of the same family, have died after a car was swept away by the force of floodwater in Agar Malwa district of India’s Madhya Pradesh. The accident occurred near the Baglamukhi temple in the Nalkheda police station area…
Children of poor families still not getting equal opportunity in education: Dr Nazneen Ahmed
Although access to education has increased, children of poor families are still not getting equal opportunities, Dr Nazneen Ahmed, executive director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has remarked. She said there is no gain in merely increasing…