M Humayun Kabir: The Cabinet yesterday approved in principal the draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 with a view to making it friendlier for workers. Cabinet Secretary Md Shafiul Alam briefed reporters after the meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports BSS. “The amendment to the labour…
Tanvir Ahmed Currently, organizing a fair election should be the number one priority. Gradually this one step will guide everything toward liberal democracy, said former Cabinet Secretary Sha’dat Hussain. At a seminar arranged by Initiative for the Promotion of Liberal Democracy (IPLD), yesterday. Meanwhile, reports of a democracy-research was published at the event. It was…
Liz Peek, Former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim & Company/Fox News He came, he saw, and he took yet another step towards Making America Great Again. President Trump scored major successes at the G-20 summit that concluded over the weekend in Argentina. Specifically, the community of nations agreed in their official communique…
Hossen Sohel: Aus-tralia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ele-cted to heal his fractured party, faces his biggest test on Monday, in steering the government through a hostile first session of parliament, reports Reuters. Picked last month by the ruling Liberal Party to become the sixth prime minister in the last decade, following a backbench revolt…
Nahian Arefin: The Taliban have decided to send a delegation to talk with United States officials with a view to end the conflict in Afghanistan. The news was confirmed by two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity involved with the process. They also confirmed that Taliban leaders were meeting to discuss the makeup of…
Reuters: China’s defense ministry said on Thursday that it was supporting Afghanistan’s defense and counterterrorism efforts, a day after Beijing denied a plan to build a base in Afghanistan and to send Chinese forces to the war-torn country. China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed a report by the South China Morning Post that cited sources…
Reported by: Jafar Ahmed Written by: Eshan Maitra Two major floods washed way crops from countless farm-lands this year. But, government’s alternative initiations toward overcoming this situation came too slow. Such, indecisive attitude mostly aided to the price-hike of rice, concluded World Bank. WB Lead Economist Dr. Zahid Hussain presented this report, at their ‘Bangladesh…
UNDP Five years ago, on the night of November 15, a cyclone ripped through Bangladesh’s coast killing more than 3,000 people and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. “We woke up in terror after the roof of my house was swept away, and moments later we were chest deep in the rising waters,”…
Jana Marle-Zizkova/New Straits Times It’s time for startups in Asia to get realistic. Our relationships with marketing clouds — despite their commitment to change, despite promising for years they would deliver what we want and need, despite their claims of progression and forward-thinking — aren’t working out. We think it’s time for us to bite…
Samiul Bashar Samin Game Of Thrones looks like it will end in 2018, after it was revealed the next season of the show will only have seven episodes.The current sixth season being shown on Sky Atlantic has 13 episodes, which is standard for the show and for most US TV dramas. However, Game Of…