DOT Desk: State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian inaugurated the helpline, reports The Dhaka Tribune. The government on Thursday introduced a helpline—16357—and formed 29 observation committees to monitor the implementation of the latest wage structure of garment workers. State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian inaugurated the helpline at a…
CNN: The British Nutrition Foundation released this month new portion-size guidelines designed to help people eat the right amounts of each food group — and possibly help them avoid overeating. “It’s really worth having a quick check of portion sizes before you’re filling up with food because we know that it does take a little…
DOT Desk: Residents of some areas in Chattogram have been suffering immensely for a week due to low gas pressure for inadequate LNG Supply, reports The New Age. Officials of Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited and Petrobangla blamed inadequate supply of LNG for the crisis. For about a week, from morning till 2:00pm daily, many…
Reuters: Qatar was accused on Monday of building stadiums for the 2022 football World Cup on land stolen from a tribe it has persecuted for more than 20 years. A delegation from the Al-Ghufran tribe handed a letter of protest to the game’s world governing body, FIFA, and demanded that Qatar be stripped of the…
Asian Age: Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) started offering medical services free of cost to the citizens of the city for 15 days marking the National Mourning Day. DSCC Mayor Sayeed Khokan inaugurated the fortnight-long free health service programme titled ‘Bangabandhu Primary Health Service’ at Nagar Bhaban. He said the DSCC has taken this program…
Eurek Alert: Poop transplants have become routine treatment for nasty recurrent diarrheal infections, but trials for other conditions have hit a bum note. Now, the fecal faithful have re-examined the evidence. Time and again, they found one donor whose stool was substantially more likely to lead to clinical improvement than others in the same trial….
Saima Mir, Freelance journalist/ Gulf News There is a tide of proud and arrogant patriarchy waiting to sweep up our boys The world of work does not look favourably on childbirth and parenthood, despite the legislation in place. Stay-at-home parents fare no better. This is something that most of us only discover after we take…
DOT Desk Women entrepreneurs have fallen far behind others in getting access to SME loans over the years though the overall SME financing keeps rising, reports The Financial Express. According to data available with the central bank, the women entrepreneurs could manage only Tk 52.65 billion or 3.37 per cent of the total SME loans…
Manzurul Ahsan Khan, Former President Communist Party of Bangladesh: Bangabandhu is still relevant in Bangladesh because he and his ideology work as a North Star to us. We will keep proceeding by following his ideology. Bangabandhu had been assassinated on August 15, 1975 only to destroy Bangladesh. Local and international conspiracies were there to stop…
Written by: Eshan Maitra Bangladesh Bank’s Credit Information Bureau (CIB) keeping tabs on all the big to small loan defaulters. CIB database & this whole division has been rejuvenated with newer & timely suitable strategies. From now on, CIB will keep all the credit history of the bank customers. developments are on the way, informed…