Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft have agreed measures to make it harder to find child abuse images online. Reports BBC.
As many as 100,000 search terms will now return no results that find illegal material, and will trigger warnings that child abuse imagery is illegal.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who had called for action from the firms, has welcomed the move.
But he warned it must be delivered or he would bring forward new legislation.
In July, Mr Cameron called on Google and Microsoft's Bing - which together account for ...
Lux star Tarin Rahman came into limelight after airing her acted two television commercials (TVCs) in different satellite channels recently.
Now Tarin acted two TVCs - ‘Banglalink -Bondho Thaka Shongjog’ and ‘Meril Petroleum Jelly’ are being aired in different channels. Under the direction of Ashfaq Bipul and Gazi Shuvro Tarin’s performances in these two TVCs are being appreciated by the viewers.
While talking about Tarin’s performance director Ashfaq Bipul told this correspondent, “I always feel comfortable to perform in experimental work. With Tarin it was like that work. This TVC has already came into limelight now.”
While sharing her feelings to perform in two mentionable TVCs at present at a time Tarin said, “These two TVCs were made in separate time. But these TVCs ar...
More than 100 protesters marched through Hudson's Bay in downtown Vancouver on Monday, demanding the company do more to address safety issues and workers' rights months after the collapse of the RanaPlaza garment factory in Bangladesh.
The protesters took over the second floor of The Bay chanting, "Stop the killing! Sign the accord!", urging the store to sign on to an international agreement known as the Bangladesh Safety Accord.
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Kalpona Akter, executive director of the...
Hennes & Mauritz , the world’s second-largest clothing retailer, laid out a plan to pay a fair “living wage” to some 850,000 textile workers by 2018, saying governments were acting too slowly.
“We believe that the wage development, driven by for example governments in some countries, is taking too long, so we want to take further action and encourage the whole industry to follow,” H&M said in a statement on its website on Monday.
H&M sources most of its garments from factories in Asia, particularly Bangladesh, where a factory collapse in April that killed almost 1,130 people put pressure on big brands to improve the working conditions of those making clothes for the West.
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Mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Ltd and Marie Stopes Bangladesh have recently signed a MoU at the Robi Corporate Office in the city.
The agreement was signed to facilitate empowering the Female Community Support Group (FCSG) members of Marie Stopes Bangladesh, located in rural areas of Bangladesh.
The MoU was signed by Pradeep Shrivastava, Chief Marketing Officer, Robi and Anil P Tambay, Country Management Consultant, Marie Stopes Bangladesh, on behalf of their respective organizations.
From Robi Axiata, Ahmed Saady Yaamin, Vice Presid...
The Dhaka- Chittagong highway has turned into a mostly violated and risky route due to hartals and continuing demonstration which covers the country’s 80 per cent export and import.
The business leaders of different organisations once again urged to the political leaders to keep free from all kind violence on Dhaka-Chittagong highway to sake supply chain undisturbed of the country.
Bangladesh earned $28 billion from exporting the apparels sector, wher...
