The president of Workers Party of Bangladesh and former civil aviation and tourism minister, Rashed Khan Menon, has been placed on a three-day remand for attacking Mirza Abbas, national standing committee member of BNP, during an election campaign in Shegun Bagicha, Dhaka area on December 15, 2018.
A female readymade garment worker was killed during a clash between workers in the Zirabo area of Ashulia on the outskirt of Dhaka city on Tuesday.
The tea workers on Sunday at separate protest rallies in Moulvibazar demanded the cancellation of the new gazette and the minimum daily wage of a worker Tk 500.
Talks between Boeing and striking US factory workers are due to resume early next week under a federal mediator, the government said Friday, after workers voted overwhelmingly to reject an earlier proposal from the embattled aviation giant...
The Conscious Students and Youth of the Tea Gardens, a platform for tea workers鈥� rights, on Friday staged a human chain, demanding the cancellation of the current 鈥榰njustified鈥� wage...
Production in 219 factories remained suspended since Thursday morning as workers in some factories continue strike and authorities of some other factories declared holiday due to unrest...
Four workers were killed when an oil tank of a factory exploded at Bhawanipur in Sherpur upazila of Bogura district in Bangladesh on Thursday.
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president Hasanul Haq Inu, Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon, ex-state minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak and ex-IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun to jail in expiry of their remand period.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Kenya鈥檚 main airport on Wednesday as staff went on an open-ended strike over a planned takeover by India鈥檚 Adani Group...
Three construction workers died after falling from an under-construction building in front of Khulna Government Women's College at Boyra in Khulna city on Tuesday.
The mass inquiry committee on killing of garment workers in 2023 on Saturday demanded trials of killers of garment workers during the movement of wage increase and demanded adequate compensations for the affected families...
TEA workers, the most exploited section of the labour force, in Moulavibazar have taken to the streets, demanding their unpaid wages. About 1,500 workers of the state-owned National Tea Company Ltd on September 6 rallied demanding their wages unpaid for three weeks. Workers at the rally said that their families were starving as the company has...
The Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha, said that it wanted to establish rights of workers and the working class people during rule of the...
Four construction workers died after they had fallen from two separate under-construction buildings in Uttara and Badda areas in the capital on Thursday.
The Indian National Congress on Tuesday cautioned that protests against Adani Group 鈥榯aking over鈥� operations of Kenya鈥檚 Nairobi airport could turn public sentiment in the African nation against India, after members of Kenya Aviation Workers Union had called for protests over plans by the Kenyan government to strike an investment deal with India鈥檚 Adani Group to...
THE labour unrest in the apparel sector that began on September 2, which continued on September 3, and forced a few dozen units to suspend operation, warrants early attention and a logical solution. The joint operation that the government initiated on September 3 appears a flawed approach and is unlikely to result in long-term stability. Apparel workers...
ON AUGUST 8, a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata (West Bengal, India) finished her 36-hour shift at the hospital, ate dinner with her colleagues and went to the college鈥檚 seminar hall to rest before her next shift...
Two Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Courts on Tuesday placed Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president and former information minister of the then Awami League government...
Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to 鈥榙isconnect鈥� on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours calls, emails and texts from their bosses...
Workers of a textile mill on Saturday blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Sreepur to press their demands, including the job security, proper profit sharing and holidays.
Leaders of Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati at a rally on Friday placed three demands, including trial into the murder of garment workers in the police firing during the...
A Dhaka Court on Friday placed the Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former minister of the Awami League-led government, Rashed Khan Menon, on five-day remand in a...
The Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former minister of the Awami League-led government Rashed Khan Menon on Thursday was arrested in a murder case filed with the New Market police station on August 21...
A murder case was filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 others for killing a garment worker during the mass uprising in the city鈥檚 Adabor area on August 5.
Thousands of outraged Indian protesters, including arch-rival football fans and lawyers, called for justice on Monday after the rape and murder of a doctor as widespread strikes by healthcare workers entered a second week...
The United Nations on Monday condemned 鈥榰nacceptable鈥� levels of violence that are now commonplace against humanitarian workers after a record 280 were killed worldwide in 2023...
Leaders of Garment Workers鈥� Trade Union Centre and Garments Sramik Front on Friday at two separate rallies in Dhaka demanded trials of killers of the workers killed...
The Workers Party of Bangladesh, an ally of the Awami League-led alliance, will observe the Anti-Terrorism Day to mark the 32nd anniversary of the attempt on the life of its president...
The Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 on Sunday relieved 14 people, including interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and health adviser Nurjahan Begum, of a case filed on charges of embezzlement of Tk 25.22 crore from the Grameen Telecom Workers鈥� Welfare Fund...
A cross section of people including leaders of garment workers, researchers, teachers and cultural activists on Sunday demanded that the newly formed interim government should work for ensuring basic rights of garment workers.....
