Big clothes brands found to fall short of own fair wage promises
The world’s top clothing brands are failing to fulfil their own promises to pay workers a fair living wage that covers basic family needs, academics and activists said on Thursday.
NUSRAT MURDER Family fumes over charge sheet as case shifted for trial
A Feni judicial magistrate court on Thursday transferred the case filed for burning to death madrassah student Nusrat Jahan Rafi to the Feni Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal for trial.
Traffickers train Rohingyas to get Bangladesh passports
Rohingyas, mostly women and girls, are being trained and given fake documents by suspected human traffickers to manage Bangladeshi passport for sending them abroad.
BNP’s Rumeen wins reserved JS seat
The Election Commission on Tuesday unofficially declared Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s lone candidate Rumeen Farhana elected to a reserved woman seat in the Jatiya Sangsad.
TRIAL COURT SHIFTING HC adjourns hearing of Khaleda’s petition
The High Court on Tuesday adjourned until June 10 the hearing of a writ petition filed by jailed Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of her trial in NIKO graft case inside Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj.
NUSRAT MURDER Principal, AL leader, 14 others found guilty
The Police Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that the charges for murdering Nusrat Jahan Rafi by setting her on fire would be pressed in a Feni court today against Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrassah principal SM Siraj-ud-Doula, local Awami League leader Ruhul Amin, three classmates of the victim and 11others.
Maternal mortality rate still high
Apparently perturbed the government withheld publishing the findings of the Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey 2017 as it shows that the high rate of maternal mortality remained unchanged in Bangladesh.
ATTACK ON DUCSU VP Quota protesters issue 48-hour ultimatum
Platform of protesters for quota reform Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum for trail of the people who attacked Dhaka University Central Student Union vice-president Nurul Haq Nur and other activists of the organisation on Sunday.
PM urges public representatives to win people’s hearts
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the public representatives to work for the welfare of the people saying that victory in polls is not enough rather they (public representatives) must win the hearts of the masses.
Cabinet okays speedy trial act extension bill
The cabinet on Monday approved the Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) (Amendment) Bill, 2019 seeking to extend the tenure of the speedy trial act for five more years as the law expired in last
