The local exporters and manufacturers needed to enhance their capacity to face the rising global competition in the post-LDC (least developed country) era, President Md. Abdul Hamid said on Wednesday. The President also asked the local and foreign investors to tap the country's blue economy potentials.He was speaking at the...
Read moreAt least 50 people were injured in spells of clashes between agitating workers and members of the law-enforcement agencies in different industrial hubs off the capital, including Savar, Ashulia, Tongi and Gazipur, on Wednesday.Demanding elimination of wage disparity in the latest pay-scale, the workers of various ready-made garments (RMG) factories...
Read moreTrade negotiators of the regional bloc BIMSTEC will meet in Delhi on January 21-22 to resolve the rules of origin (ROO) dispute which is critical to a deal on 'trade on goods', sources said.Disagreement emerged after Nepal proposed that 25 per cent value-added products of least-developed countries should be treated...
Read moreBangladesh has gained four places on the latest Democracy Index, compared to the previous year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), reports bdnews24.com.That falls in line with the EIU's finding that Asia recorded the highest improvement in its score out of any region.Bangladesh ranks 88th with an overall score...
Read moreGarment makers' leader Md Siddiqur Rahman has urged readymade garment workers not to pay heed to 'rumour' as he suspected that 'local and foreign elements' are fuelling the ongoing unrest."It's rumour that workers' wages were not hiked... It's not true, the lowest pay hike was at least Tk 1,200," he...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, Jan 09: The Chittagong WASA is going to increase water tariff by 5.0 per cent for all types of consumers -- domestic, industrial and commercial -- with effect from February this year.The Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) took the decision on tariff hike in its board meeting...
Read moreBNP leader Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, the Jatiya Oikya Front candidate for the Brahmanbaria-2, won the parliamentary constituency after re-voting in three centres, reports bdnews24.com.Sattar drew 83,997 votes in 132 centres with the party's 'paddy sheaf' symbol, according to results released after the re-election on Wednesday.His nearest rival Md Moin Uddin,...
Read moreLONDON, Jan 09 (Reuters): World stocks extended their gains to hit a near-four week high and oil prices rose on Wednesday on optimism that the US and China may be inching toward a trade deal, soothing fears of an all-out trade war. Delegations from China and the US ended talks...
Read moreBANDARBAN, Jan 09 (AFP): Panic is gripping thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees living in no-man's land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, with daily clashes between Myanmar security forces and ethnic Rakhine insurgents.Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since a military crackdown started in 2017 -- most to sprawling...
Read moreMembers of Garments Workers Rights Movement formed a human chain in front of Jatiya Press Club in the city on Wednesday demanding trial of killers of the worker killed in Savar on Tuesday — FE photo
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