Staff Reporter : The situation aboard the hijacked MV Abdullah has become increasingly dire as the vessel continues to shift...
Day: March 17, 2024
City Desk : The Bangladesh Federal Union of Newspaper Press Workers and Bangladesh Newspaper Workers Federation on Saturday strongly demanded formation of the 10th wage board for journalists, employees and workers in the newspaper industry. The demand was made from a joint meeting of the two federations at the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Employees Union’s office in the capital to cope with the increased prices of essentials, said a press release, reports BSS. Bangladesh Newspaper Workers Federation president Motiur Rahman...
Shahariar Islam Sovon : “City dwellers have been facing immense suffering due to long traffic congestion, caused by a lack...
UNB : Around 300 workers of Crony Apparel Limited on Saturday staged a demonstration after putting up barricades on Dhaka-Munshiganj road demanding payment of their dues. Selim Badsha, inspector of Narayanganj Industrial Police, said some 300 workers and staff of the garment factory took to the street around 9 am and staged demonstrations demanding payment of their dues. The workers from the factory floor claimed that they are not getting their arrears for two months while the administrative staff claimed...
Reuters : One in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished and famine is looming, the main UN agency operating in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday. “Children’s malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza,” the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a social media post. More than five months into Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, much of...
BSS : Ruling Awami League (AL) lawmaker from Jhenaidah-1 (Shailkupa) constituency and Jhenaidah district AL President Abdul Hyee passed away...
Agency: Maria Sakkari needed three sets and four match points to get past US Open champion Coco Gauff on March 15, setting up a final with world No. 1 Iga Swiatek at the Indian Wells Open. In a match halted twice by rain, the ninth-ranked Greek squandered three match points in the second set but pulled away in the third to win 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2. “I didn’t give up,” Sakkari said. “You can easily lose your head when you...
According to the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment, there are 43 Japanese, 32 Korean, 16 English, and four Chinese language training centres in the country, but none for Arabic, even though most expatriates went to Saudi Arabia last year. News media reported that in the fiscal year 2022-23, 95 training centres across the country under BMET taught the languages of four countries. A total of 2,423 trainees learned Japanese, Korean, English, and Chinese languages, whereas about 1.3 million...
Al Jazeera : India will hold a seven-phase general election starting on April 19, with the results to be declared on June 4. The Election Commission of India announced the schedule of the six-week marathon vote during a news conference in New Delhi on Saturday. Nearly 970 million voters – more than the entire population of the United States, the European Union and Russia combined – are eligible to cast their ballot, according to the poll panel’s data, making the...