COP29 host tries to calm waters after diplomatic turmoil
Host Azerbaijan tried to bring down the diplomatic temperature in Baku on Thursday after a French minister cancelled her trip to the UN climate talks and Argentina withdrew its delegation...
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ILO urges govt for quick completion of GPEU case
The Committee on Freedom of Association of the International Labour Organisation urged the government of Bangladesh to ensure that the case of Grameenphone Employees Union pending before a labour court in Dhaka is concluded without further delay...
Educated youth for road safety
BANGLADESH is facing two big issues: rising unemployment, especially among educated young people, and a major road safety problem. A recent World Bank report states that around 4.4 per cent of people in Bangladesh are unemployed, with many jobless people having higher degrees. At the same time, unsafe roads, worsening traffic, and unreliable..
Businesses to run despite actions against owners: Asif
Labour and Employment adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Saturday said that despite actions against business owners involved in money laundering and various crimes, their businesses would continue to operate...
Six people sustain burn injuries in N鈥檊anj gas cylinder explosion
Six garment workers, including three women, were burnt as a gas cylinder exploded at a house in Dahargaon area of Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj early Saturday...
State policies for employment generation demanded
Speakers, including students, youth leaders and activists on Saturday called on the government to take and implement state policies for employment generation to curb...
Govt approves draft of amended overseas employment act
The council of advisers to the interim government in principle approved the draft of the 鈥極verseas Employment and Migrants (amendment) Ordinance-2024鈥�, which aims to check several irregularities in the...
140 killed in Nigeria fuel tanker explosion
An explosion has killed more than 140 people in northern Nigeria as crowds rushed to collect fuel spilling from a crashed tanker, officials said on Wednesday.
Nigeria fuel tanker explosion kills almost 100 people: police
A fuel tanker explosion in northern Nigeria has killed at least 94 people and left 50 injured, police said on Wednesday...
Two LPG tankers catch fire in bay
Two tankers carrying liquefied petroleum gas, anchored near Cox鈥檚 Bazar鈥檚 Kutubdia in the Bay of Bengal, caught fire early Sunday.
Farhad worked to establish exploitation-free society: left leaders
Left political leaders on Wednesday at a commemoration meeting in Dhaka said that former general secretary of Communist Party of Bangladesh Mohammad Farhad worked for establishing an exploitation-free society...
Govt should improve cylinder use and fire safety protocols
THE death of three people in a cylinder explosion at a restaurant in Keraniganj, as 抖阴精品 reported on October 6, is shocking. It is more so after a series of such events the latest of which, on February 29, left at least 46 dead as a cylinder explosion burnt an eight-storey building that housed mostly restaurants and eateries on Bayley Road in Dhaka...
Mine explosion blows youth鈥檚 leg in Teknaf
The right leg of a young man blew away in a landmine explosion at Teknaf in Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Tuesday morning...
3 die in tanker explosion on River Karnaphuli
Three people were burned to death as fire broke out following an explosion in a petroleum-carrying tanker, Banglar Jyoti, at Patenga on River Karnaphuli in Chattogram on Thursday morning...
Employment project launched for underprivileged youths
Educo Bangladesh, in partnership with ChildFund Korea and co-implementer Eco-Social Development Organisation, on Sunday launched an employment project for employment of underprivileged youths through technical education and vocational training....
Shafik鈥檚 sentence suspended, Mahmudur sent to jail
The government on Sunday suspended the sentence of journalist and writer Shafik Rehman for one year while a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court sent former Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman to jail in a case filed nine years ago...
Three members of same family injured in gas-leak blast in Dhaka
Three members of a family, including a minor child, sustained severe burn injuries in an explosion apparently erupted from the gas leakage at kitchen in Shukrabad area of Dhaka early Saturday...
Tackling unemployment: Asia鈥檚 dirty secret
FOR several decades, the Asia-Pacific region has experienced the fastest reduction of working poverty and rise of labour incomes worldwide. After the heavy toll inflicted by the...
Public servants must submit wealth report by November 30
Senior secretary of public administration ministry Md Mokhlesur Rahman on Sunday said that all government employees had to file wealth statements for the financial year...
Glenrich celebrates GlenXplore Day
The Glenrich International School Uttara organised an event titled GlenXplore Day to celebrate the upgrade of the Uttara campus in the capital on Saturday...
China youth unemployment hits 18.8 per cent
Youth unemployment in China climbed to 18.8 per cent in August, its highest level this year, as the country struggles to boost a flagging economy...
Strategic implications of Lebanon pager blasts
THE recent explosion of thousands of pagers across Lebanon is an alarming development that bears the hallmarks of Israeli involvement, potentially signalling an imminent military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah. This tension has been mounting since Hezbollah鈥檚 recent engagement with Israeli forces, a direct response to Israel鈥檚 intensified military...
Tarique Siddique sued for plotting to abduct, kill
A case was filed on Thursday against 10 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 security affairs adviser major general (retired) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, allegedly for abducting, plotting to forcibly disappear and ultimately killing colonel (retired) Md Tauhidul Islam Chowdhury...
New device blasts kill nine, wound 300 in Lebanon
A second wave of device explosions killed nine people and wounded more than 300 in Hezbollah strongholds of Lebanon in the Middle East on Wednesday, officials said, stoking fears of an all-out war in the region.
Divided at home, divided abroad
BANGLADESH has adopted a policy of exporting its human resources abroad for 45 years. And, the size of that export, known as expatriate population, has increased by millions. Beyond this practice, Bangladesh also witnessed an ever-increasing voluntary departure of population in the form of brain drain in addition to another category, the unemployed,...
Eight killed, around 2,750 wounded in Lebanon pager explosions
Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said eight people were killed and some 2,750 wounded in pager explosions across the country Tuesday, with Hezbollah earlier saying the pagers were used by its members.
Death toll rises to 6 as 2 more workers die
The death toll from the September 7 explosion at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram rose to six as two more injured workers died at Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute in Dhaka early Saturday...
Four die in oil tank blast in Bogura
Four workers were killed when an oil tank of a factory exploded at Bhawanipur in Sherpur upazila of Bogura district in Bangladesh on Thursday.
Govt revokes special PPs in BDR mutiny explosives case
The government recently cancelled the appointment of 17 special public prosecutors in an Explosive Substances Act case, filed with Lalbagh police station over the 2009 BDR mutiny...
Explosions in Myanmar again, Rohingyas enter afresh
The people in bordering areas of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district had to pass sleepless night after midnight past Saturday as panic gripped them due to the sounds of gunshots and bomb explosions in Myanmar territory...