The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given in-principle approval for the procurement of 200 electric buses for the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) without inviting tenders. The committee has also approved the direct procurement of necessary charging stations and ancillary infrastructure for operating the buses.
The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase has approved the proposal to import 35,000 metric tonnes (±10 percent) of MOP (Muriate of Potash) fertiliser from Russia to meet the demand in the country's agriculture sector.
The High Court has issued a rule asking why the removal of upazila parishad vice-chairmen and women vice-chairmen should not be declared illegal.
A court has sent Jahangirnagar University student Sharafat Sharik Rohan to jail in a case filed over derogatory Facebook posts about the July uprising protesters.
The government has approved four procurement proposals worth approximately Tk 948 crore for printing, binding and supplying around 18.5 crore copies of textbooks to be distributed free of cost among primary, ebtedayee, secondary, dakhil and technical students for the 2027 academic year.
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Afroza Khanam today said aviation security protocols must be applied equally to everyone including VIPs and CIPs, stressing that no one should be exempt from airport security procedures.