Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku has directed concerned authorities to prepare working papers to make the country's power transmission and distribution system safer, smarter and more modern as Bangladesh prepares to enter the nuclear power era.
Police headquarters has said that Transparency International Bangladesh's claim of 605 murders during the current government's first 100 days has significant limitations, adding that the number is consistent with historical crime rates and does not represent an abnormal increase.
Intern and postgraduate trainee doctors have suspended their ongoing work abstention and medical students' class boycott for seven working days after receiving assurance that their six-point demands would be implemented.
The Bangladesh Shop Owners Association has sent a letter to the Prime Minister demanding that shops, malls and shopping centres be allowed to remain open from 12:00 pm to 10:00 pm daily. The association's leaders said the current decision to keep shops closed by 7:00 pm is severely harming retail businesses and putting the livelihoods of millions of traders and employees at risk.
The Cyber Security Act will include provisions to compel international tech platforms, including Facebook's parent company Meta, to remove harmful content within a specified timeframe, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed informed parliament on Monday, June 8.
Three individuals, including a woman, have been sentenced for assaulting a traffic police constable and damaging his mobile phone at the Hotel Sonargaon signal in Karwan Bazar, capital. The convicts are Afia Konok, an official of Guest Group, and two security personnel of the establishment, Md Shamsuzzaman and Raju Ahmed. The Special Metropolitan Magistrate Court of DMP's Tejgaon division handed down the sentences.