Canadian firms asked to sign binding safety agreement

Kalpona Akter, the executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS), an advocacy organization for workers' rights has asked The Bay and the other Canadian firms to sign binding safety agreement. Kalpona, who escaped a factory fire in the Bangladesh garment factory in 1990, is now in Vancouver this week to speak at a rally outside the downtown Hudson's Bay department store on Nov. 25, calling on the The Bay and other Canadian companies to sign the agreement that will, Kalpona said, save many lives. At 12-years-old, Kalpona Akter was uncritically fond of her employers at the garment factory near her hometown, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She and her 10-year-old brother worked long, dirty shifts at the factory; the two children were the only source of income for a seven...

Kuddus seeks help to return after accident in Oman workplace

Abdul Kuddus Mizi, a Bangladeshi worker who has been admitted to hospital following an accident at workplace is hopefully waiting for well-wishers' help for the last six months to go back to his home country, social workers claimed. kuddusAbdul Kuddus Mizi, the victim was admitted to hospital in May after he met an accident at his workplace in Amerat. "A piece of wood fell on his head and he was severely injured. He was in coma for a few months but his condition has improved a little bit since. But he seems to be extremely weak and has loss of m...

LRB to perform at South Asia Band Festival in India

The leading band group of Bangladesh, LRB will perform in the seventh edition of South Asian Bands Festival (SABF) slated to be held at Purana Qila from November 29 to Dec 1. This year's line-up include Barefaced Liar, Circus and Susmit Sen Chronicles (Delhi), LRB (Bangladesh), ZnG (Bhutan), Biuret (Korea), Stigmata (Sri Lanka), Eman's Conspiracy (Maldives), Papon And The East Indian Company and What's In The Name (Mumbai), Strings (Pakistan), Pardis (Afghanistan), Albatross (Nepal) and The Raghu Dixit Project (Bengaluru). Presented by the ministry of external affairs, ICCR and Seher, the three-day festival will feature fourteen popular rock bands from across nine nations of the sub-continent.

Remittance from KSA highest in July-Oct period

The expatriate Bangladeshis working in Saudi Arabia sent the highest amount of $ 944.34 million remittance during the July-October period of the current fiscal year (2013-14). The overall remittance inflow to Bangladesh during the four-month period totalled $4,500.64 million of which $1,230.68 million came in this October, according to the latest data of the Bangladesh Bank. The overall remittance inflow in September totalled $ 1,025.69 million. remmitance The central bank data showed that of the total $ 4,500.64 million sent in July-Oct...

Govt raises local rice purchase price

The government has raised the price of local rice purchase. It will pay to farmers for upcoming season’s rice to 30 taka ($0.38) a kilogram, up from 29 taka a year earlier, Food Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen said on Wednesday. The government will buy 200,000 tonnes of rice from local farmers in the harvesting season starting Dec. 1, Sen said, adding that more rice would be procured locally if required. “The purchase will boost our reserves as well as ensure fair price for farmers,” he told reporters. pariza rice panicle

Tea prices dip for second week

Tea prices in Bangladesh slipped for a second straight week at a weekly auction on Tuesday as demand from local buyers was poor amid political violence, brokers said. The average price of Bangladeshi tea was 200.04 taka ($2.74) per kg against 213.25 taka in the previous auction on Nov. 19, an official from National Brokers Ltd said on Wednesday. teaNearly 2.4 million kg of tea was offered at the country’s sole auction centre in Chittagong, with about 21 percent remaining unsold, compared with more than 2.4 million...
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