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, 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...
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.
M Masud Rana has been promoted to additional managing director of BRAC Bank effective tomorrow, said a press release...
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...
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...
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...
Today is the 164th anniversary of birth of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a key and influential figure in Bengali literature...
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.
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...
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...
Lawyers, labour leaders and professionals at a views-exchange programme in Dhaka on Wednesday demanded an end to Rana Plaza collapse trial...
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...
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...
The mural of poet Rabindranath Tagore at Kumarkhali in Kushtia has been restored after miscreants blotted it with black ink...
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.
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.
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...
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 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...
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...
A fire broke out at the second floor of a four storey building in the capital's Purana Paltan area on Tuesday morning.
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...
A teenage domestic worker died after falling from the 13th floor of a building in Purana Paltan, Dhaka on Sunday.
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
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.
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.
The West Indies players came out with a visible fury on the third day afternoon. The umpires had to warn them...
Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma said they really wanted to build a constant, stable and constructive relationship with Bangladesh.
Nahid Rana's first Test five-wicket haul nudged Bangladesh ahead of the West Indies before the tourists' usually suspect batting line-up displayed a measure of resilience to claim the upper hand on the third day of the second and final Test at Sabina Park.