In the race to attract and retain the most productive and talented workers, important lessons may lie in the garment factories of Vietnam and mines in Africa. Who would have thought that providing an on-site kindergarten for worker’s children would reduce turnover rates by a third, generating an immediate financial return to Vietnamese garment factory Nalt Enterprise? Who would have thought maintenance costs would decrease when a global mining company put women in the driver’s seat of heavy trucks at Rio Tinto?
Women are 40 percent of the global workforce and form the bulk of the workers in many industries including agribusiness, tourism and textiles. And yet we have preconceived notions that too often get in the way of realiz...
Tea prices in Bangladesh plunged for a sixth straight week at a weekly auction on Tuesday, because of larger supplies of end-of-season inferior quality leaf, brokers said.
Bangladeshi tea fetched an average of 125.85 taka ($1.6) per kg at the auction, sharply down from 144.19 taka in the previous week's sale, said an official from National Brokers Limited.
More than 2.7 million kg was offered at the auction centre in Chittagong, with nearly 54 percent remaining unsold. At the previous auctio...
Indeed geographical location becomes prime barrier some times to avail the life of metropolis for any individual when he or she is living in a remote and hilly area of a developing country.
But, getting the bliss of 21
st century, any impossible could be composed into reality if there is any tool like internet, which has turned the world into a global village.
So, the learning can no longer be acceptable whenever the potentially of people could be realised through internet-based communication.
Fuji has recently announced the release of the much-lauded X-T1 — heck, it only started shipping last month — but the company might have another mirrorless camera in the works already.
In response to a question posed on the Fujifilm Camera – Bangladesh Facebook page, an admin revealed that “FUJIFILM might release another X System MILC very soon,” and told people to stay tuned for updates.
We would take the response with a grain of salt; after all, they did use the word “might” in there and Fujif...
As a part of its corporate social responsibility, Bank Asia has provided higher studies scholarship to 21 (twenty-one) insolvent meritorious students of Mohadevpur Upazila of Naogaon district recently.
A.M. Nurul Islam, Vice Chairman of the Bank handed over the scholarship money to the students at a function held at Mohadevpur Upazila auditorium recently. Senior Executive Vice President of the Bank Barun Kanti Saha, SVP & Head of Bogra Branch Mozaffor Ahmed and FAVP & Head of Moha...
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) has arranged Training Course on ‘The Strategies of Virtuousness and Accounting’ for Senior Officer/Officer at the TrainingCenter of the Corporation.
Dr.Md. Nurul Alam Talukder, Managing Director of BHBFC Inaugurated the Training Course as the Chief Guest. Afroza Gul Nahar, General Manager (Administration) presided over the function.
Besides A. K. M Mannan Bhuiyan, Deputy General Manager was present.
