Restoring law and order hinges on the effectiveness of field administration where the DCs play a crucial role as the highest-ranking officials at the district level.

In an unprecedented scene, Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday witnessed a fistfight among a section of public administration ministry officials over the appointment of 59 deputy commissioners in the last two days.

Chaotic is what best describes the days at the secretariat after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government of 15 years on August 5.

Office activities at the secretariat begun at 8:00 this morning as part of government’s new schedule in order to save electricity.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is to join his ministry office on Sunday following his return from Singapore where he was under treatment for two months and 11 days.

It is the heart of Bangladesh’s administration where The Daily Star found blatant ignorance of safety of human lives.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to the cabinet secretary requesting him not to hold the cabinet meeting at Secretariat saying that the prime minister’s movement for this meeting creates traffic jam in the city.

The government promotes 85 joint secretaries to the rank of additional secretaries, who were deprived of promotion in the last several years.

A labourer is killed after a truck hits him while working inside the Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka.

The cabinet approves draft laws for converting Gazipur and Rangpur police to metropolitan police. Bijoy Bhattacharya, additional secretary to the cabinet division, says the decision was made to provide legal services to the doorsteps of the people.

The government employees may draw their salary as per the new pay scale from January 1 next year which has been made effective from July1 this year, finance minister AMA Muhith says.

Police bar a procession when it was going to besiege home ministry at Bangladesh Secretariat demanding maximum punishment for those who gang-raped a Garo woman on May 21.