Debapriya Bhattacharya, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), believes that economic stability is essential for implementing the special initiatives taken for the backward people in the next budget.
Famous painter Rafiqun Nabi has commented on the vandalism of sculptures and memorials of the Liberation War in various parts of the country as an attempt to forget the Liberation War. Calling such a trend worrying, he said, "These things can be rebuilt, but the reason for which they were destroyed is what worries us."
Good news is coming for government officials and employees at the beginning of the upcoming 2026-27 fiscal year. The new salary structure is going to be implemented in stages from July 1. The government will spend an additional 1 lakh 6 thousand crore taka to fully implement this new pay scale. Apart from this, about 25 thousand crore taka will be required for retired officials or pensioners. Multiple reliable sources at the top level of the government have confirmed this information.
Police have recovered a human skull and some bones from a road in Mohammadpur, Dhaka. The remains were found next to an electric pole in front of a house in Block-C area of Road No. 2, Kaderabad Housing, around 5pm on Monday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has held a coordination meeting on the overall security and traffic management of Dhaka Metropolitan City on the occasion of the upcoming holy Eid-ul-Azha. The meeting held at the conference room of DMP headquarters at 11am was presided over by DMP Commissioner Mosleh Uddin Ahmed on Monday (May 18).
The Malaysian labor market for Bangladeshi workers will reopen soon, Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Ariful Haque Choudhury announced today, while issuing a stern warning against the influence of syndicates.