The proposed child marriage prevention bill 2016 is placed in the parliament suggesting strict punitive actions against marriage between boys and girls who are below 21 and 18 years respectively.

Forest and Environment Secretary Kamal Uddin Ahmed has been appointed as secretary to the home ministry. The public administration ministry issues a notification in this regard.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says 80 percent services of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) will be provided through online from May 2017.

Civil society members demand the United Nations to play leading role to ensure migrants’ rights and protect them during the emergencies.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s proposed India visit has been deferred due to unavoidable circumstances. She was scheduled to pay a three-day bilateral visit to India from December 17 or 18 at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges Myanmar to resolve the issue of their minority Rohingya community using political means, saying military measures could not be the answer to the problem, as newly appointed Danish ambassador in Dhaka Mikael Hemnid Winther calls on her.

Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church is expected to visit Bangladesh next year, new cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh Reverend Patrick Rozario says.

Director General of International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder will arrive in Dhaka on December 10 for a four-day official visit.

Bangladesh has urged India for speedy signing of the strip map of a 2-km border at Muhurir Char (Feni in Bangladesh and Belonia in Tripura, India) in a bid to fully implement the long-festering land boundary problem in the tiny portion of land.

Primary school children cannot be forced to carry backpacks weighing over 10 percent of their weight, the High Court orders in response to a writ petition. The court also orders government to formulate a necessary law in this regard.

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.