Helpline launched for RMG workers.
The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments on Sunday launched a telephone helpline for the readymade garment workers so that they could raise any concern about possible fire,
Govt swallows Tk 265cr losses by giving benefits to IGWs.
The government has suffered a revenue loss of around Tk 265 crore in five months after it cut the rate for international call termination by the international gateway (IGW) operators patronising the politically licensed IGW operators,
Cop kills schoolboy after abduction.
Police recovered the decomposed body of a schoolboy from a police constable’s house in Sylhet city on Saturday night, three days after he was kidnapped for ransom.
Police tells HC Salahuddin disappeared on his own.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday told the High Court that Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary-general Salah Uddin Ahmed had disappeared on his own and no law enforcement agency had arrested him.
No democracy in the country since 1990: Ershad.
Jatiya Party [JP] chief HM Ershad said on Saturday there was no democracy in the country. ‘Democracy has been absent in the country since 1990,’ the former dictator and now special envoy to prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
ALAH UDDIN DISAPPEARANCE, Govt undecided on what to tell HC.
The attorney general’s office is yet to decide how to respond to the High Court directive to produce BNP joint secretary general Salah Uddin Ahmed by today, as law enforcement agencies are yet to confirm his whereabouts.
ull business continues to hit banks’ credit-deposit ratio.
The credit- or advance-deposit ratio in the banking sector remained stuck at around 70 per cent in the recent months due to a dull business situation amid political unrest and uncertainty,
o dialogue with Khaleda: AL.
The Awami League has rejected outright BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s call for a dialogue for holding an early general election under a non-partisan government to overcome the present political impasse.
Hold dialogue, restore CG: Khaleda.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Friday put forward a three-point demand, including an immediate dialogue for holding a fair and inclusive election under a ‘government acceptable to all’ to resolve prevailing crisis.
HC asks govt to explain by Sunday why it won’t be ordered to trace Salahuddin.
The High Court on Thursday asked the government to explain on Sunday why it should not be directed to find out Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed and produce him before the court.
