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Verdict on validity of caretaker government issue to be delivered today

Shawdesh Desk: The High Court is set to deliver its verdict today (Tuesday) on the validity of the 15th amendment to the Constitution, which abolished the caretaker government system. The

Committee to be formed in five working days to ensure justice in BDR massacre

Shawdesh desk: The Ministry of Home Affairs will form a committee within the next five working days to ensure justice for the BDR massacre, home affairs adviser Lieutenant General (Retd)

BNP suggests reforms for public administration overhaul

Shawdesh desk: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has unveiled a set of proposals aimed at reforming the country’s public administration, suggesting comprehensive restructuring to enhance efficiency and impartiality within the system.

550 individuals’ Tk 15,000cr frozen for investigation

Shawdesh desk: The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has frozen bank accounts of nearly 550 individuals and entities, holding around Tk 15,000 crore, over allegations of accumulating substantial assets through unethical means.

It is not easy to cancel deal in energy sector: Rizwana

Shawdesh desk: Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest Climate Change, has expressed her government’s limited scope in coming out of the deal in the country’s energy

1,657 millionaire accounts disappear following Hasina’s ouster

Shawdesh Desk: Following the ousting of Sheikh Hasina on 5 August amid a student-led uprising, revelations about corruption and embezzlement in the banking sector during her nearly 16-year tenure have

Japan pledges to support Bangladesh

Shawdesh Desk: Japan will support Bangladesh’s reform agenda, and its investors would continue to stay in Bangladesh to help boost the country’s economic developments, outgoing Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama

Toby hopes India will respect Bangladesh’s call to extradite Hasina

Shawdesh Desk: Toby Cadman, an international criminal law expert and special adviser to the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, has expressed hope that India, as a democratic state,