Mohiuddin Alamgir

Field-level admin and police officials yesterday said lawmakers and ministers trying to influence upazila polls in their respective localities might pose a serious challenge for the Election Commission.

The fate of the Electronic Voting Machines hangs in the balance as the related project ends in June, with no sign of the Election Commission initiating any new project or plan for the maintenance and storage of the existing machines so far.

The bank accounts of at least 12 private universities have been frozen for not following the National Board of Revenue’s instruction to pay 15 percent income tax.

During the first half of last year, out-of-pocket expenses rose by 51 percent for secondary level education and 25 percent for primary level education, according to a study.

The Public Service Commission wants to upgrade the statuses and salaries of its chairperson to that of a Supreme Court’s Appellate Division judge and its members to those of High Court judges.

The rate of Caesarean section (C-section) deliveries in Bangladesh has increased by more than nine percent in one year.

Almost 41 percent of the population aged between five and 24 years were not in educational institutions last year, says a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

The Election Commission has made its own officials the returning officers and assistant returning officers for the elections to 152 upazila parishads scheduled for May 8.

It was as early as 6:30am on the sunny spring morning of March 17, 1975.

The government has at last introduced the automated fuel pricing mechanism that will see the domestic fuel prices adjust in line with the prices in the international market every month.

Mang Pu Mro, 78, from Kranchipara of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila, is among the last seven speakers, all of whom are elderly, of Rengmitcha language.

Private universities are seeing enrolments for their undergraduate and postgraduate courses picking up after a drop during the pandemic.

University Grants Commission has proposed formulating a guideline for appointing vice-chancellors, pro-VCs, and treasurers at public universities.

University enrolment, which has historically been lower than the global and the low- and middle-income countries’ averages, dropped to a four-year low in 2022 after a small but steady growth for a decade.

The 12th parliament goes into its maiden session tomorrow in the absence of a “genuine opposition” that can hold the government accountable.

The government has made lesser allocations for the education and health sectors than what is projected in the 8th five-year plan, raising questions about its commitment to these critical areas.

A planning commission meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday after eight years took three vital decisions to ensure timely completion of projects and avoid cost overruns.

The number of political parties in parliament since the restoration of democracy in 1991 seems to be shrinking.

Awami League bagged less votes in the January 7 national polls compared to the previous two general elections, according to Election Commission data.

Two polling centres posted a hundred percent voter turnout each in Sunday’s election, while two others recorded a 98 percent turnout, according to Election Commission’s centre-wise data.