Desk Report: Overseas employers have been asked to offer higher wages if they were serious about recruiting skilled apparel workers from Bangladesh, reports New Age. Rights campaigners, women leaders and government officials raised the demand at a workshop in the capital. The workshop for Strengthening Migrant Labour Hiring Practice was jointly organized by Bangladesh Overseas…
Desk Report: Stocks on the country’s both bourses stayed in the positive trend at midday on Monday as investors remained active on sector specific stocks, reports Financial Express. Following the previous day’s marginal correction, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) opened higher amid rising trading activities. Within first 15 minutes…
Tariq A. Al Maeena, Saudi socio-political commentator/Gulf News The ease with which falsehood and hearsay goes viral is alarming, especially if it borders on spiteful intent These days, the lines between truth and fiction have indeed been blurred.What we see or what we read is often a misrepresentation of facts, and yet we tend to…
Baria Alamuddin, Award-winning journalist and broadcaster in the Middle East and the UK/Arab News Every US administration has had significant fallings-out with Palestinian leaders. This happens whenever Palestinians refuse to give Israel everything it demands as the price for a peace deal. Nevertheless, such disputes mostly remain within the constraints of civilized political debate —…
Desk Report: The government will develop a guideline on the use of Bangla on online media and internet-based platforms to ensure proper use of the language in the technology domain, reports Daily Sun. The guideline will also help solve the complexities faced by the global internet community on some letters and characters of the Bangla…
UNB: A show-cause notice has been served upon a doctor of BagerhatSadar Hospital for allegedly assaulting two patients and a guardian. The accused doctor is AbulKalam Azad, a senior consultant of Gynae Department of the hospital. A pregnant woman, Rozina Begum, 20, wife of Alam Sheikh of Hamchapur village in Morelganjupazila, was brought to the…
M Humayun Kabir: The High Court yesterday directed the lower court concerned to dispose internationally-acclaimed photographer Shahidul Alam’s bail petition by today. A High Court bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque passed the order after hearing a petition filed by Shahidul seeking bail in the case. The bail petition was filed with the court of…
Reuters: Oil prices rose on Monday as U.S. drilling stalled and investors anticipated lower supply once new U.S. sanctions against Iran’s crude exports kick in from November. Brent crude oil jumped $1.09 a barrel, or 1.4 percent, to a high of $77.92, but then eased to $77.40 by 1250 GMT. U.S. light crude was 40…
Desk Report: The construction work of long awaited Bay Container Terminal is going to start soon in Chittagong to mobilise the port activities as the problem involving land acquisition is almost over, officials have said, reports New Age. The construction work of the project under Chittagong Port Authority had slowed down over land acquisition process….
Arab News: Baghdad on Sunday denounced Iranian missile strikes that have killed at least 15 people in the northern Iraq. “Iraq protects the security of its neighbors and does not allow its territory to be used to threaten these countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Mahjoub said after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards admitted firing seven missiles targeting…