A Bangladeshi nurse has been reportedly missing in New York for over three months, a media report said on Thursday.
Mahfuza Rahman, 30, was last seen at her workplace, the Bellevue Hospital, on December 8, 2015, bdnews24 reported.
The next day her husband Mohammad Chowdhury, 38, informed the hospital authorities, when they called to inquire about her, that she had returned to Bangladesh because a close relative
was injured in an accident. He also said his wife would return to New York by the first week of March 2016.
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Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has introduced the Big Win Offer on buying its various smartphones with the new prices. Customers can now have the chance to avail exciting cash discounts, to win LED TVs and at the end of the extended campaign, a sedan car on buying Galaxy Grand prime, Galaxy J1 ACE, Galaxy J2, Galaxy J5 or Galaxy J7 with new announced prices.
Customers can now buy the Samsung Galaxy J7 at BDT 19900 (previously priced at BDT
21,990), Galaxy J5 at BDT 16,900 (previously priced at BDT 1...
BEXIMCO Communications Limited is about to launch country’s first Direct-to-Home (DTH) service, a method of receiving television signal directly from the satellite, under the brand name ‘RealVU’. The best international practices of TV services and technologies will be implemented in Bangladesh soon.
“We are ready to provide DTH services under the RealVU brand name vey soon which will drastically change the viewing experience of the Bangladeshi TV audience,” said Dmitry Lapitskiy, CEO of BEXIMCO Communications, while speaking at the press conference held at a city hotel today, March 10. He added, “The new operator, which will initially launch the DTH broadcasting in the metropolitan areas, will also cover the entire country gradually thanks to ABS satellite beam. The picture quality p...
Apparel exporters are concerned over the United Kingdom’s ban on cargo flights from Dhaka and said it might have adverse effect on the country’s export.
Siddiqur Rahman, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).
Bangladesh exports apparel worth $3 billion to the UK annually, said Siddiqur Rahman, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).
“We are worried as we will incur a huge loss due to the ban,” he added.
The United Kingdom governm...
In late November, a 52,000-ton barge eased into this ramshackle port on the Bay of Bengal and came to rest on a wide, muddy beach.
After nearly four decades crisscrossing the oceans for an American offshore engineering company, the DB-101 did not come to erect another oil rig or lay miles of undersea pipe.
It came here to die.
For scores of large commercial vessels that reach the end of their seagoing lives each year, the final port of call is Chittagong in southern Bangladesh, home to the world’s largest — and least regulated — ship-breaking industry.
Tuesday marked International Women’s Day, and demonstrations of solidarity or activism were held around the world. In Bangladesh, garment workers demanded equal pay, an end to violence against women, and safe working conditions. Women make up 85% of garment workers in the country, often taking home the pitifully small minimum monthly wage of $68. That is a far cry from the $113 per month that the E.U. states is needed to cover a worker’s basic needs, and well below a real living wage.
Exacerbating that dismal state of affairs is the fact that many garment workers put in 60-140 hours of overtime per week, but are often cheated of the overtime pay. Many are denied
