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.
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.
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.
Institutional repression against women at DU: teachers
A section of Dhaka University teachers on Sunday censured recent incident of ousting female students from Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall at midnight terming it ‘institutional repression against women.
5 killed as nor’wester lashes country
At least five people were killed in Habiganj and Kishoreganj in a thunderstorm that lashed parts of the country, including Dhaka, Sunday evening.
US-Bangla questions Nepali probe
The US-Bangla Airlines on Sunday said the probe report released by Nepali authorities into the March 12 plane crash at Tribhuvan International Airport that left 51 passengers and crew dead is partly questionable as it skipped ‘vital issues’.
Khaleda’s treatment outside jail after consultation with doctors: Home minister
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said that the government will take decision about the further treatment of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia outside the jail after consultation with expert doctors.
