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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...

Amended Indo-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement Bill passed

The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved amendments to the land boundary agreement bill to correct an error in the name of the act. The Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 was passed by the Rajya Sabha earlier this week. indo-banglaThe error was in the numbering of the bill as "119th" amendment in the title, while it had become "100th" amendment when it was passed. Numbering of constitutional bills are adhoc and change as not all bills introduced are passed. In the upper house, the change was made in the tit...

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...

KV Kamath appointed as chief of BRICS Bank

ICICI Bank's non-executive chairman KV Kamath has been elected as the chief of BRICS Development Bank. At the BRICS summit in Brazil last year India was accepted as the head of the $100-billion development bank. kv-kamathKamath is the non-executive chairman of ICICI Bank and is also the chairman of Infosys. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and did his management studies at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. While the New Development Bank, as it will be called, will be headquartered in Shanghai, India has got the righ...

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,...
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