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NCP for lowering voting age to 16, min age for national polls candidates to 23

Staff Correspondent: The National Citizen Party (NCP) has proposed implementing reforms through two methods – first, ordinances before elections and second, a constituent assembly-elected legislature. NCP Joint Convener Sarwar Tushar

Home Adviser visits Rab, APBn headquarters

Staff Correspondent: Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury visited the headquarters of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) in Dhaka’s Uttara on

Awami League is a ‘transplanted force’ from abroad: Mahfuj Alam

Staff Correspondent: Information and Broadcasting Adviser Mahfuj Alam on Saturday said Awami League is not a domestic force rather it is essentially a ‘transplanted force’ from abroad. “Awami League is

Govt to accomplish immediate implementable media reform proposals: CA

BSS: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday said the interim government will take initiatives to carry out those proposals of the Media Reform Commission, which are immediately implementable. He

Journalists’ starting salary should match a gazetted officer’s basic salary

Staff Correspondent: The Media Reform Commission has recommended setting a unified minimum salary at the start of permanent employment for journalists across the country, which should be equivalent to the

No date set yet for Tarique Rahman’s return: Fakhrul

Staff Correspondent: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said no date has been set yet for the return of party’s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman from London. “We