The Jatiya Sangsad has unanimously adopted obituary references on a number of distinguished personalities including Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal executive president Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal MP and former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
The fifth session of the 11th parliament that began today will continue till November 14.
Around Tk 163.57 crore was misused due to the quorum crisis in the tenth session of the national parliament, according to a study by Transparency International Bangladesh.
Awami League Parliamentary Party (ALPP) will hold a meeting at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on July 11.
The Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat is to launch a help desk on information of budget to assist lawmakers to deliver their speeches at the first budget session of the 11th parliament.
Amid widespread outcry over safe water, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Estimate recommends to split the Dhaka Wasa into two parts to ensure supply of safe and drinkable water for the city dwellers.
A parliamentary body recommends that the authorities concerned will have to inform the ministry of foreign affairs about the foreign trips of any government delegation or players before their journey.
A parliamentary body asks the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to set up necessary number of water hydrants in the capital city to fight fire accident.
A bill is placed in the parliament with an aim to stop cruelty towards the animals and define duties of those owners.
Though making laws is the main task of the parliament, its lawmakers spent nine percent time for this purpose in the 18th session of the current parliament continued till December last year, a study report prepared by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) says.
The parliamentary standing committee on telecom and ICT says it will sit with newspaper editors, Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and owners of the electronic media to know their concern about the Digital Security Act-2018.
The parliamentary body on public administration opines for bringing “logical reform” to the existing quota system in civil service, upholding the spirit of the constitution.
