Social safety net programmes are considered an effective mechanism to bridge the income gap and build an inclusive society, but successive governments have given little policy attention to the issue. A recent International Labour Organisation report shows that 91.3 per cent of people in Bangladesh lack any form of social protection...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained one person with 11 gold bars from Satkhira鈥檚 Bhomra Lakshidari border area on Thursday.
THE effort of the March 12 movement, a civil society collective, to bring presidential candidates onto one platform and share their visions and hopes with the general population was successful in its second round. All six of the presidential candidates who had been scheduled for the debate participated as expected and shared their visions and aspirations...
The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that at least a quarter of those hurt in the war raging in Gaza have suffered 鈥榣ife-changing injuries鈥�, many requiring amputations and other...
Director general of the World Trade Organisation Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that Bangladesh would get same benefits for sometimes after its graduation from the Least Developed Country in 2026...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has urged the low- and middle-income countries to bridge the digital divide, tackle regulatory capacity and compliance issues to take...
The largest outreach event of the World Trade Organisation will start today at the multilateral trade organisation鈥檚 secretariat in the Swiss city of Geneva...
THE literacy rate for people aged above seven years that the national statistical office has come up with every year for 19 years, from 2023 backward to 2005, shows a consistent increase, by small leaps though. Literacy rate is reported to have been 52.1 per cent in 2005 and it has increased to 77.9 per cent in 2023, keeping to official documents...
China鈥檚 commerce ministry said on Friday Beijing had referred Canada to the World Trade Organisation over Ottawa鈥檚 new restrictions on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminium...
WHAT eats up the vitality of a nation? Mendacity 鈥� deceit, dishonesty, and lying 鈥� are the vilest of sins. A respectable nation is built on respectable people, and respectability starts with oneself, which translates into respect for others. It is expressed through manners, sobriety, and other experiential and observed learnings...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion have recovered arms and bullets, which were looted from Satkhira police station on August 5, on Saturday.
A murder case has been filed in the senior judicial magistrate court here against 32 persons, including former president of the district Awami League and former member of parliament Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and former superintendent of police Chowdhury Manjurul Kabir for killing a Jamaat activist Shahidul Islam in 2015...
Bangladesh is the world鈥檚 most polluted country and fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) shortens the average Bangladeshi resident鈥檚 life expectancy by 4.8 years, relative to what it would be if the World Health Organisation guideline of 5 碌g/m鲁 was met, says a new global report released on Wednesday...
MONKEYPOX is a zoonotic disease with a presentation similar to smallpox. Clinical differentiation of the disease from smallpox and varicella is difficult. Laboratory diagnostics are the principal components of the identification and surveillance of the disease, and new tests are needed for a more precise and rapid diagnosis. Monkeypox earned its name in...
The Comoros on Wednesday became the 165th member of the World Trade Organisation after negotiating terms for 17 years...
The hospitalisation rate from dengue infection and death rose sharply in August amid a relaxed anti-mosquito drive in the peak monsoon season...
Some general members of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the apex trade organisation in the country, on Wednesday gave a 48-hour ultimatum to the federation board, including the president, to step down...
The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it...
The director general of World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, congratulated Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on his assumption of office of the chief adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh and expressed her interest to work closely with him.
The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that the mpox outbreak was not another Covid-19.
The Green Multimedia Limited鈥檚 satellite broadcasting services have been suspended due to repeated failure to pay broadcasting service dues and repeated breach of terms of notices sent for payment of arrears...
The Bangladesh Pratibandhi Kalyan Samity and the National Alliance of Disabled Peoples鈥� Organisations on Monday demanded the inclusion of an adviser representing the persons with disabilities in the interim government...
The High Court on Monday asked the information and broadcasting ministry鈥� secretary and chairmen of Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission and Bangladesh Satellite Company Limited to stop broadcasting of Somoy Television channel for seven days...
Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia recorded the highest unemployment rate of 15.1 per cent in 2023, according to an International Labour Organisation report...
Several hundred Ansar Members of the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party on Sunday blocked the road in front of the Supreme Court main gate in the capital...
Belgium鈥檚 Nafissatou Thiam said years of suffering lay behind her Olympic success after she clinched a historic treble of heptathlon golds on Friday...
Beijing said Friday it had filed an appeal with the World Trade Organisation over the European Union鈥檚 imposition of additional tariffs on imports of electric vehicles from China...
The vice-chancellors of Rajshahi University and Islamic University in Kushtia resigned from their posts on Thursday after the students issued ultimatums...
A total of 596 prisoners and detainees have escaped from Satkhira District Jail following an attack on the facility....
The impact of excessive hit at work in Bangladesh is higher than the global average, though the situation has worsened more slowly over the past 20 years, according to the International Labour Organisation...