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Safety nets must shift from charity to empowerment

TDS Desk: Sharmeen Murshid, social welfare and women & children adviser, said the government’s safety net programemes must transform itself from a charity-based model to an empowerment-focused approach. She made

ACC asks Bangladesh Bank to freeze officials’ safe deposits

TDS Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has sent a letter to the governor of Bangladesh Bank, requesting measures to temporarily freeze all officials’ safe deposits in the bank’s security vault.

High Court asks why Chinmoy should not get bail in sedition case

TDS Desk: The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule questioning why former International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) leader Chinmoy Krishna Das should not be granted bail in a

Home Adviser urges Kuwait to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh

TDS Desk: Home Affairs Adviser Lt. Gen. Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) on Monday called upon Kuwait to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh. “Around 280,000 Bangladeshis are working in the

Jubodal, Shibir shift blame for firing blank shots, exploding cocktails in Rajshahi while looting tenders

TDS Desk: A group of unidentified individuals looted tenders for a marketplace lease in Rajshahi on Monday (February 3) after firing blank shots and exploding cocktails. The incident took place

All eagerly waiting for election: EC Sanaullah

TDS Desk: Election Commissioner (EC) Brig Gen (Retd) Abul Fazal Md Sanaullah has said that everyone is eagerly waiting for the upcoming election, as they have been deprived of the