Bangladesh’s Cabinet has approved a draft law creating a Multi-party Grievance Redress Committee for the proposed Special Response Battalion, giving citizens and force personnel a formal channel to lodge complaints and seek review.
Bangladesh is set to challenge Myanmar over sharply conflicting figures on how many Rohingya refugees fled Rakhine State and are now living in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh plans to gradually introduce an artificial intelligence-based automated traffic fine system on highways nationwide after evaluating a system launched on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, home minister Salahuddin Ahmed said Tuesday.
Confederation of Indian Industry has proposed two joint business-to-business taskforces aimed at expanding Bangladesh-India trade and investment, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir said Tuesday.
Bangladesh’s gas supply has improved from last week’s severe shortage, but factories continue to struggle with low pressure as more fuel is directed to power plants.
Justice AKM Asaduzzaman, who retired from Bangladesh’s Appellate Division in February, has been appointed chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission as the government reconstitutes the anti-graft watchdog.
Bangladesh’s two stalled Dhaka metro projects could cost more than twice their original estimates because of a stronger U.S. dollar, inflation, higher taxes, and station design changes, a government-appointed expert committee found.
Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram had been convicted twice for labor-law violations before nine workers were killed at the yard Aug. 14, according to Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments records.
Asian Development Bank vice president Yingming Yang said the Manila-based lender is ready to help Bangladesh become an upper-middle-income country and a trillion-dollar economy by 2034.
Mongla Economic Zone is expected to create about 60,000 jobs in two phases, with first-phase work scheduled to begin in October, shipping minister Sheikh Rabiul Alam said Sunday.
