Ben Campbell, Senior Global Strategist at LEGO Group/Linked In We’re process driven creatures – go to school, college, work, have kids, retire, cash out your super. It’s how we approach work too. Get into the office, catch up on your inbox, meetings, lunch, grind.And just like the process of life and work, the process of…
Raj Abrar of DOT Awami League President Sheikh Hasina urged all citizens to cast vote for her party in order to ensure a hunger and poverty-free Bangladesh. “Every vote is valuable and your one vote will help us form the government for the continuation of the country’s development,” she said while addressing a rally at…
Geo TV: Women in Saudi Arabia will now be notified about their divorce via text messages. Starting yesterday, courts will be required to notify women by text on rulings confirming their divorces. “The new measure ensures women get their [alimony] rights when they’re divorced,” Saudi lawyer Nisreen al-Ghamdi told Bloomberg. “It also ensures that any…
BBC: Zimbabwe has launched a crowdfunding campaign to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has so far killed 25 people, mostly in the capital, Harare. New Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube sent an appeal on Twitter, sharing a mobile payment account number. An emergency has been declared and public gatherings banned in Harare to prevent…
The Star : Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has been arrested by graft investigators over the “tampering” of the 1MDB final audit report. The former prime minister, was arrested around 11am at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission headquarters here, minutes after he arrived for a fresh round of questioning over the issue. Najib was seen entering…
UNB A college student reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself with the room ceiling at Madhyapara in the district town on Thursday night. Quoting relatives, Mainur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sadar Model Police Station, said Golam Anwar Russel, 20, an accounting student of Brahmanbaria Government College and son of Gola Kibria, a resident of Medda area,…
Monirul Alam of DOT The cost of living in Bangladesh increased by 6 percent in the calendar year 2018 compared to the previous year, said Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) yesterday. CAB said it has monitored and analysed prices of foodstuffs, daily essentials, services and house rent in the city and other urban cities and…
Andrés Velasco, Former presidential candidate and finance minister of Chile/The Project Syndicate Open societies educate or attract people with varied and valuable kinds of knowhow, and they prosper that way. It is high time that more leaders began highlighting that fact and taking electoral advantage of it. Utter the words “identity politics” nowadays and you…
New Age: The participation of female workers in the country’s readymade garment industry has been decreasing in recent years with the share of women workforce in the sector coming down to 53.2 per cent in 2016, according to a study conducted by the Centre for Policy Dialogue. Experts said that it was alarming that women…
The Express Tribune: India on Sunday launched the world’s biggest health insurance scheme which Prime Minister Narendra Modi said would cover some 500 million poor people. The programme, dubbed ‘Modicare’, promises health cover worth INR500,000 ($6,900) to every poor family to treat serious ailments. The scheme is expected to cost the central and 29 state…