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New rules to provide welfare fund for garment workers

Following negotiations and discussions with Bangladesh’s garment workers and officials of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, the country’s government has finalized rules to establish a new labor welfare fund. “Garment factory owners will give 0.03 per cent of their total export earnings, which rmgwould be approximately $8 million per year, to the Bangladesh Labor Welfare Foundation, “ Shahidullah Azim, vice president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, told WWD. “The money will be used for the w...

Myanmar blames Bangladesh for migrant crisis

Myanmar authorities today described Bangladesh as “the root” of the migrant crisis facing the region, after hundreds of people — many from the Muslim Rohingya minority — were found adrift at sea. RohingyaNearly 2,000 people from Myanmar and Bangladesh had been rescued or swum to shore in Malaysia and Indonesia by late today, after people smugglers apparently abandoned them in boats. As the trafficking trail snaking south from Bangladesh and Myanmar, via Thailand and onto Malaysia, slowly gives up some of its secrets, attention has turned on...

Stop pornography in social media: HC

The High Court today (Sunday) directed the government to stop uploading and sending pornography, vulgar picture and video by service providers through mobile phones and social media including Facebook and Tweeter in seven days. say_no_to_pornIn response to a writ petition, the court also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks as to why its inaction to stop such activities in the social media should not be declared illegal. Chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and secretary to the M...

Scuffles over land grabbing in enclaves

Days after Parliament ratified the land swap agreement with Bangladesh, there are reports of “law and order” problem over the alleged land grabbing in the Indian enclaves in Bangladesh. bd-indiaIt has been learnt that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rang up Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to take steps to maintain peace in the Indian enclaves. Accordingly, the Bangladesh administration was contacted by the Prime Minister’s Office and was requested to take necessary action. The local administration of both the countries, however,...

Coast Guard Cutter Rush transferred to Bangladesh Navy

The US Coast Guard decommissioned and transferred the Cutter Rush to the Bangladesh Navy as the BNS Somudra Avijan during an official signing ceremony on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, California on Wednesday. coast-guard-cutter-rUS Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat officially handed over the second US Coast Guard Cutter "Rush" to the Bangladesh Navy. At 378 feet, the Rush (renamed BNS Somudra Avijan) will join its sister ship the Somudra Joy (formerly USCG Jarvis) as the largest ships in theBangladesh Navy, ...

Rushnara, Tulip, Rupa win UK polls

Rushnara Ali, Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Rupa HuqBangladeshi-origin Labour Party candidates Rushnara Ali, Tulip Rizwana Siddiq and Rupa Huq have won their respective seats in the UK polls. tin-konnaRushnara Ali recorded a landslide victory in the Bethnal Green and Bow seat for the second consecutive time while Tulip Rizwana Siddiq won the Hampstead and Kilburn seat and Rupa Haq has won the Ealing Central and Acton Parliamentary seat. Rushnara, the first Bangladeshi origin British MP, bagged 32387 votes while her nearest rival conservative ...
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