APPAREL WORKERS’ SAFETY Promises made mostly not implemented
The expectations for positive changes in the country’s garment sector created by the Rana Plaza Collapse remain mostly unfulfilled over the last five years. The worst ever factory disaster in the history of the garment industry shook the world in 2013.
Newborn declared dead moves before burial
A newborn girl who was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Monday started to move and breathe within two and a half hours at city’s Azimpur Graveyard where it was taken for burial.
Trump-Macron: Red carpet treatment belies differences on Iran, Syria
(CNN)President Donald Trump deployed the full trappings of formal state entertaining for the first time on Monday in the hopes an elaborate display of diplomacy can lead to a deeper bond with French President Emmanuel Macron
Billionaire investor: It's time to short Facebook
Jeff Gundlach, the billionaire investor, isn't buying Mark Zuckerberg's apology tour. Gundlach, known as the king of the bond market
A van speeds across Toronto sidewalks, leaving 10 pedestrians dead
(CNN)Ten people are dead and 15 are injured after the driver of a van plowed into multiple pedestrians in Toronto on Monday in what appears to be a deliberate act, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said.
Former President George H.W. Bush in intensive care
(CNN)Former President George H.W. Bush is in intensive care, a day after a funeral was held for his wife, Barbara Bush, CNN has learned.
Trump ramps up personal cell phone use
(CNN)President Donald Trump is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, multiple sources inside and outside the White House told CNN
PM returns home from London
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned home from London on Tuesday morning, wrapping up her six-day official visit to the United Kingdom.
Abduction of three youths: Hartal underway in Khagrachhari
A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Parbatya Bangali Chhatra Parishad is underway in Khagrachhari on Monday demanding immediate rescue of three abducted Bengali youths.
5 YEARS OF RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE Survivors’ woes continue
The woes of crippled survivors of the Rana Plaza collapse are continuing even five years after the deadly factory building disaster that killed 1,138 workers and left more than 2,400 others injured on April 24, 2013.
