Staff Reporter

The government yesterday approved Rangpur as a new administrative division comprising eight districts, raising the total number of division to seven in the country.
The decision in this regard came at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting of the National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation (NICAR) at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting. Ministers, State Ministers and Advisers to the Prime Minister, among others, were present. [Read more]