Prabarana Purnima today
The Buddhists will celebrate their second largest religious festival Prabarana Purnima countrywide on Monday with due solemnity and traditional enthusiasm.
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Enforceability of labour law
IN 2013, the tragic Rana Plaza incident shook the whole country, killing thousands of workers. The tragedy turned the lives of thousands of families upside down. Structural cracks in the building were discovered the day before the incident, but factory owners made their workers come for work. Section 61 of the Labour Act, 2006, instructs that when a building is required...
Rabindra University observes Tagore鈥檚 death anniv
Rabindra University, Bangladesh on Wednesday observed the 84th anniversary of the death of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali polymath who worked, among others, as a poet, writer, playwright and composer...
Rabindranath Tagore鈥檚 death anniv today
The 84th anniversary of the death of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali polymath who worked, among others, as a poet, writer, playwright and composer, will be observed today.
Masud becomes BRAC Bank AMD
M Masud Rana has been promoted to additional managing director of BRAC Bank effective tomorrow, said a press release...
Milestone Preparatory KG School celebrates Rabindra, Nazrul birth annivs
Milestone Preparatory KG School has recently celebrated the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam at the Kamaluddin Auditorium of the permanent campus of Milestone College at Diabari in Dhaka...
鈥楾raumatised鈥� Nahid pulls out of Pakistan series
Fast bowler Nahid Rana and two members of the support staff have opted out of the forthcoming Pakistan tour as the Pakistan Cricket Board published the revised schedule for the three-match T20 series on Wednesday...
Rabindranath Tagore鈥檚 birth anniv celebrated
Organisations under the cultural affairs ministry and private cultural organisations on Thursday organised discussions and cultural programmes across the country to celebrate the 164th anniversary of birth of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a key and influential figure in Bengali literature...
Rabindranath Tagore鈥檚 164th birth anniv today
Today is the 164th anniversary of birth of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a key and influential figure in Bengali literature...
BCB monitoring security of Bangladesh players in PSL
The Bangladesh Cricket Board is closely monitoring the evolving security situation over the past 24 hours. The safety and well-being of Bangladeshi players currently playing in the Pakistan Super League remain the Board's top priority, according to a BCB press release issued on Wednesday.
Call for trial completion, redress renewed
Different political parties and labour rights organisations specially the garment worker rights bodies on Thursday observed the 12th year of the Rana Plaza collapse, the deadliest industrial accident in the country, with the demand for completing the trial of the owners of the factory responsible for the accident...
Delay in Rana Plaza cases makes mockery of justice
EIGHTEEN of the 19 cases filed on various charges in connection with the Rana Plaza collapse, which left at least 1,138 people, mostly apparel workers, dead and more than 2,400 people wounded, having been pending for 12 years brings to the fore the inertia that grips the legal and regulatory system when it comes to worker rights. The eight-storey Rana Plaza, which...
End to Rana Plaza collapse trial demanded
Lawyers, labour leaders and professionals at a views-exchange programme in Dhaka on Wednesday demanded an end to Rana Plaza collapse trial...
Safety condition improves, challenges remain
Bangladesh鈥檚 readymade garment industry has undergone a significant change in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza collapse, one of the deadliest industrial accidents in the country, but there are still in the sector many issues to be addressed...
Victims still cry for justice
Twelve years after the Rana Plaza collapse, which killed at least 1,138 people, mostly apparel workers, and injured over 2,400 at Savar, justice remains elusive for the victims and their families...
Tagore鈥檚 mural refurbished after being defaced with black ink
The mural of poet Rabindranath Tagore at Kumarkhali in Kushtia has been restored after miscreants blotted it with black ink...
Starc, Rana shine as Delhi and Rajasthan register IPL wins
Mitchell Starc claimed his first five-wicket haul in T20 cricket and Nitish Rana smashed a 36-ball 81 as Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals registered victories in the IPL on Sunday.
Bangladesh ready to unleash Rana at Champions Trophy
The Tigers have an ace up their sleeve in the form of 22-year-old quick Nahid Rana, as they ready themselves for the Champions Trophy 2025.
Preacher urges India govt to declare cow as Rashtra Mata
Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of the Jyotish Peeth in Uttarakhand, has given the central government a 33-day deadline to decide on banning cow slaughter and declaring the cow as 鈥楻ashtra Mata.鈥� He has warned that if no action is taken by March 17, he will take a 鈥榯ough decision鈥�, PTI reported...
Indian HC finds cooperation in apparel sector as testament to interdependence聽聽
High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Pranay Verma at an interactive session with businesses in the apparel sector in Dhaka on Monday highlighted importance of the Ready-Made Garments sector in Bangladesh鈥檚 socio-economic development and also in promoting closer supply/value chain linkages between the two countries.
Centre for Studies on Jogendranath Mandal鈥檚 Thoughts, Practices formed
Centre for Studies on Jogendranath Mandal鈥檚 Thoughts and Practices has been formed with the aim of practicing the political ideology and thoughts of the prominent politician of the undivided India and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly...
India-Bangladesh relationship focus on benefit of people: Verma
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has said that Delhi would continue to seek a stable, positive, constructive, forward-looking and mutually beneficial relationship with Dhaka in which people were the main stakeholders...
Four storey building in Paltan catches fire
A fire broke out at the second floor of a four storey building in the capital's Purana Paltan area on Tuesday morning.
Nahid finding his way in T20s
Rangpur Riders鈥� wicketkeeper and captain Nurul Hasan took a couple of steps back as Nahid Rana was bowling thunderbolts during their Bangladesh Premier League match against Sylhet Strikers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Tuesday...
Teenage domestic worker dies after falling from building in Paltan
A teenage domestic worker died after falling from the 13th floor of a building in Purana Paltan, Dhaka on Sunday.
Rana gets maiden T20 call up 聽
Fast bowler Nahid Rana has been included in the Bangladesh squad for the three-match T20 international series against the West Indies that begins at the Arnos Vale Ground in Kingstown, St Vincent today.聽
Rana added to T20 squad for West Indies series
Fast bowler Nahid Rana has been included in the Bangladesh squad for the three-match T20 international series against the West Indies that begins at the Arnos Vale Ground in Kingstown, St Vincent on Monday.
Verma calls for stronger ties with Bangladesh
Indian high commissioner in Dhaka Pranay Verma has expressed hope to further reinforce the existing interdependencies between Bangladesh and India through more robust linkages in connectivity, culture and commerce.
Rana rattling his way into lore
The West Indies players came out with a visible fury on the third day afternoon. The umpires had to warn them...
India wants stable, constructive relationship with Bangladesh, envoy says
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma said they really wanted to build a constant, stable and constructive relationship with Bangladesh.
