The much-talked about proposed Road Transport Act-2018 was placed in parliament last night, amid criticism over the “lenient” nature of the punishment over deaths caused by reckless driving.

The proposed Road Transport Act 2018 will be placed before the parliament today, Road Transport and Bridges Ministry said yesterday.

There will be another session of the 10th parliament at a convenient time in October after the current 22nd session, which began yesterday, concludes on September 20 with 10 working days.

A three-member BNP delegation is now in India and holding talks with the country's leading think-tanks over different issues, including the parliamentary elections of Bangladesh likely in December.

The parliament unanimously grants two more months for further scrutiny of the controversial Digital Security Bill-2018. The Jatiya Sangsad passed a proposal in this regard by a voice vote.

The Jatiya Sangsad will go into its 20th session on April 8 after a 38-day vacation.

The 17th session of the 10th parliament is set to begin on September 10 at 5:00pm.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses disappointment at the Supreme Court verdict which upheld illegality of the 16th amendment of the constitution.

The parliament expresses deep shock at the death of over 100 people, including four army men, in hillslides in Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban.

The sitting of the sixteen session (Budget session) of the 10th parliament resumes with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution to enact a law for punishing those who will “distort” the country’s history of 1971 Liberation War and the mass killing.

The House unanimously adopts a resolution to observe March 25 as Genocide Day, marking the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25, 1971.

MPs are not allowed to speak on point of order in fear quorum crisis in the House after the end of point of order session.

Parliament passes Tk 3,40,605 crore national budget for FY 2016-'17 aimed at higher GDP growth, lower inflation and gearing up investment.

Government officials and employees have illegally occupied some 128 houses or residences across the country, Housing and Public Works Minister Mosharraf Hossain tells Parliament.

Parliament passes the supplementary budget of Tk 19,803.62 crore for the outgoing fiscal year 2015-16 to meet the additional expenditures under different ministries and divisions.

We are extremely grateful for the timely initiative of the education minister, whose ministry reinstated Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the

Parliament will go into the Budget session on June 1, a Parliament Secretariat press release says.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says a “constitutional crisis” might arise due to a "parliament-judiciary row" over the 16th constitutional amendment concerning impeachment of Supreme Court judges.

High Court scraps 16th amendment to the constitution that empowered the parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges for incapacity or misconduct. Terming the amendment law as ‘a historical accident’, the court says it is against the principle of separation of powers and independence of the judiciary. Government says it will appeal against the ruling.