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BGB to refrain from using lethal weapons during national elections

TDS Desk: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will not use any lethal weapons to maintain law and order during the upcoming 13th national parliamentary election, BGB Dhaka Sector Commander Colonel SM

Pledges to raise health allocation, but no clear plan for building a sustainable system

TDS Desk: Bangladesh’s health sector has long been plagued by shortages of manpower, a lack of modern equipment, disparities in service quality, and management weaknesses. Despite being the sector of

Ordinance approved defining unwanted physical, verbal, non-verbal, and online conduct as sexual harassment

TDS Desk: The Advisory Council has approved a new ordinance defining all forms of unwanted and demeaning physical, verbal, non-verbal, and online conduct as sexual harassment, making it immediately enforceable

Election atmosphere to improve further with gradual presence of security forces: Shafiqul Alam

TDS Desk: Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday expressed optimism that the security situation would improve with the gradual deployment of security forces, stating that political parties have

Election-related violence: 144 incidents since schedule announcement, four political killings

TDS Desk: A Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Rezaul Karim, secretary of Sreebordi upazila unit, has been killed in a clash with BNP activists in Sherpur, triggered by a dispute over seating during

Rohingya repatriation only viable solution to crisis: CA

BSS: Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has said that the repatriation of more than one million Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine State remains the only viable and sustainable