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Female workers ‘can be accompanied by male relatives’ to KSA

Expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Nurul Islam on Wednesday said female workers employed in Saudi Arabia can be accompanied by one of their close male relatives with the men working under ‘domestic service’ category. The minister said this while speaking at a press conference at the Expatriates’ Welfare Building in Dhaka. maids from BDHe also said the issue will be discussed in the upcoming joint working committee meeting between the two countries. The minister said he already had a discussion over this with his Saudi...

$ 16b earning from exports in H1 2015

Bangladesh’s total exports in the first half of the current fiscal (July 2015-June 2016) exceeded $16 billion—up eight percent from the same period a year ago, official data showed on Tuesday. Bangladesh fetched $16,083.90 billion from exports in six months of the current fiscal year, Xinhua cited Import_Export_0-450x252Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data as showing. The EPB data showed export performance for December was $3.20 billion, 12.66 percent higher than that in the same month a year ago. Bangladesh export inc...

Lipid-based supplement to improve infant health

Fortified, lipid- or fat-based nutritional supplements provided during pregnancy to women in Bangladesh reduced stunting, abnormally low weight and small head size in babies born to these women, reports a team of University of California, Davis, researchers who led the international project. The lipid-based supplement was more effective in promoting healthy birth outcomes for infants than just iron and folic acid prenatal supplements, commonly recommended for pregnant women. Findings from the study, which tracked the health of more than 3,000 participating women and their infants,

Bangladesh transforms despite its vicious politics

Bangladesh’s social, economic and political development is one of the great success stories of the past 25 years. But today it is Bangladesh’s politically dysfunctional ‘battling begums’ — Sheikh Hasina of the ruling Awami League (AL) and Khaleda Zia of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) — that hold the country back. n overview of a floating vegetable market for the poor people besides the rail tracks close to the station during the country wide strike at Mohakhali in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1 January 2015 (Photo: AAP)Bangladesh has emerged from military rule as a fledgling democracy struggling to build essential economic and political institutions. It has made great strides in drawing children into schools, improving gender equality, boosting maternal and child health, and red...

Dhaka Samity distributes blankets among poor

Dhaka Mahanagar Samity (Dhaka Samity) distributed Blankets among the Poor and destitute People in the Samity premises on 05th January 2016 with help of Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. and Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI). Blanket Distribution of SJIBL & Dhaka Samity JPGAlhaj Mohiuddin Ahmed Director of Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd. and Chairman of Shahjalal Islami Bank Securities Ltd. distributed Blankets among winter hit & destitute People as Chief Gu...

War based book ‘The Spectral Wound’ unfolds at JU

A book based on sexual violence, public memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971, titled “The Spectral Wound” was unfolded at the Jahangirnagar University on Tuesday through a publishing ceremony. 169411The book is written by Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee, teacher of Anthropology Department of Durham University, UK. Marking the ceremony, the anthropology department organised a seminar while the writer of the book spoke the programme. Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee said, “During the liberation war, the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their l...
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