The Editors’ Council yesterday said the amendment to the Cyber Security Act, 2026, must ensure effective measures against cybercrime and clear safeguards for independent journalism, disclosure of information in the public interest, lawful expression, and the professional independence of the media.
The Daily Star
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Two Bangladeshis executed in Makkah on October 14 were included in a list of prisoners that Saudi Arabia had shared with the Bangladesh mission in the kingdom, but the list did not mention that they had been sentenced to death.
The government aims to lay the foundation stone of the new Secretariat at Agargaon in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on December 16, Victory Day, following a decision to relocate it from Abdul Gani Road.
Media personalities, legal analysts and civil society representatives demanded the repeal or amendment of repressive clauses in the draft “Cybersecurity Act, 2026”, warning that it seeks to criminalise fundamental rights, free speech and press freedom under the guise of curbing fake news.
The government is set to purchase 5,830 vehicles for Bangladesh Police at an estimated cost of Tk 6,609 crore to address a transport shortage that has left the country’s 639 police stations with fewer than two vehicles each on average.
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