Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Dr. Iftekharuzzaman said the scale of attacks on media institutions during the one-and-a-half years of the interim government is “rare in world history” on Friday (May 8).
The weekly holiday on Saturday (May 23) has been canceled for government officials and employees. However, they will get seven consecutive days of leave in the last week of May. This decision was taken at a cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday night (May 7). This information was confirmed in a press release of the Cabinet Division after the meeting.
The country’s only state-owned oil refinery, Eastern Refinery Limited, has resumed full-scale production after a 26-day shutdown caused by a severe crude oil shortage, officials said on Friday (May 8).
The government has declared a seven-day holiday for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
A 14-year-old schoolgirl has gone missing from Charghat upazila in Rajshahi, with no trace of her even eight days after she left home for school, police and family sources said.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has paid deep tribute to Nobel laureate and poet Rabindranath Tagore on the occasion of his 165th birth anniversary, describing him as a towering voice in Bengali literature whose creativity was rooted in the pursuit of human welfare.