Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government has set a goal to generate 24,000 MW of electricity by 2021 and 60,000 MW by 2041, aiming to benefit all the people of the country.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approves the crucial Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant scheme with Russian assistance, the country's biggest ever project in terms of financial involvement requiring an estimated amount of Taka 1,13092.91 crore.

The High Court orders the government to remove the names of collaborators from the structures of all educational institutions and roads by two months.

The Supreme Court fixes tomorrow for delivering verdict on the appeals of two Huji death row convicts including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan against the High Court judgement in a case filed for the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh.

The High Court summons the deputy commissioner of Gaibandha asking him to appear before it on December 12 for his derogatory remark on Bangali people in a report submitted by him before the court.

National Security Intelligence (NSI) Director Brig Gen Ziaul Ahsan has been co-opted to investigate the cause behind the technical glitch in the Biman special flight that carried Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Hungary on November 27.

Terming Myanmar’s Rohingya issue as “sensitive,” Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali tells the parliament that Bangladesh is trying to resolve the growing Rohingya crisis using different international channels.

The government recognises 12 non-resident Bangladeshis as commercially important persons (CIPs) for their outstanding contribution to the country’s economy by remitting foreign currencies and importing Bangladeshi products abroad in 2015.

The law ministry and the Supreme Court tell High Court that lower judges, public prosecutors, and police concerned do not comply with the provision for the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000.

Bangladesh ambassador to Bhutan Jishnu Roy Choudhury has been sent into retirement. The public administration ministry issues a notification to this end.

The Supreme Court stays till December 8 a High Court directive that had restrained Pubali Bank Ltd’s Chairman Habibur Rahman and its Director Kabiruzzaman Yakub from discharging duties for the bank.

Mozammel Haq Khan, senior secretary to the home ministry has been made Public Administration ministry secretary. The public administration ministry issues a gazette notification in this regard.

There will be no compromise with the security of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon says at the parliament.

Thirteenth session of the 10th parliament will continue till December 12, the Business Advisory Committee of the Jatiya Sangsad decides.

Three under-trial prisoners, who have been serving in jail for over 16 years, secure bail from the High Court in separate murder cases.

Nagorik Odhikar Sangrokkhan Sangram Parishad has called for a six-hour hartal (strike) in Rajshahi city on December 11 to press home its four-point demand including reduction of increased holding tax imposed by Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC).

All people with disabilities to get smart identity cards by the end of December 2017.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press conference to brief the media about the outcomes of her recent Hungary tour.

United Nations requests Bangladesh for a infantry battalion composed of 850 personnel for a peacekeeping mission in Sudan.

The historic Shat Gambuj Mosque along with the museum on its compound is a great archaeological asset of Bangladesh, US Ambassador to Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat said yesterday.