A total of 3,13,848 posts are currently vacant under different ministries, says State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain.

The parliamentary standing committee on home, foreign affairs and expatriate welfare and overseas employment will hold joint meeting to discuss repression and sexual harassment against Bangladeshi female workers abroad specially in Middle Eastern countries.

BNP lawmaker Harunur Rashid claims that their party is the real opposition in the parliament as the BNP MPs do not take part in the discussions in a bid to save themselves.

The newly elected MPs to the seats reserved for women were sworn in yesterday.

Though two lawmakers-elect of the Gonoforum have expressed willingness to join parliament, the party still sticks to its decision of not joining.

Law Minister Anisul Huq expresses his hope that the BNP would go to the parliament otherwise it would face a consequence.

The current parliament will have its final session on October 21.

Parliament last night approved 90 days' leave for ailing Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, who is undergoing treatment at a Bangkok hospital.

The much-talked about proposed Road Transport Act-2018 was placed in parliament last night, amid criticism over the “lenient” nature of the punishment over deaths caused by reckless driving.

The proposed Road Transport Act 2018 will be placed before the parliament today, Road Transport and Bridges Ministry said yesterday.

There will be another session of the 10th parliament at a convenient time in October after the current 22nd session, which began yesterday, concludes on September 20 with 10 working days.

A three-member BNP delegation is now in India and holding talks with the country's leading think-tanks over different issues, including the parliamentary elections of Bangladesh likely in December.

The parliament unanimously grants two more months for further scrutiny of the controversial Digital Security Bill-2018. The Jatiya Sangsad passed a proposal in this regard by a voice vote.

The Jatiya Sangsad will go into its 20th session on April 8 after a 38-day vacation.

The 17th session of the 10th parliament is set to begin on September 10 at 5:00pm.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses disappointment at the Supreme Court verdict which upheld illegality of the 16th amendment of the constitution.

The parliament expresses deep shock at the death of over 100 people, including four army men, in hillslides in Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban.

The sitting of the sixteen session (Budget session) of the 10th parliament resumes with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution to enact a law for punishing those who will “distort” the country’s history of 1971 Liberation War and the mass killing.

The House unanimously adopts a resolution to observe March 25 as Genocide Day, marking the brutality carried out by Pakistani Army on the unarmed Bengalis on the black night of March 25, 1971.