To meet a long-felt need of the country's labour sector, the government is learnt to have taken an initiative to create a digital database of workers employed in the formal as well as informal sectors of the economy. A project on a pilot scale styled, 'Labour Information Management System (LIMS)'...
Read moreThe World Bank (WB) Group President David Malpass recently presented a bleak scenario of the world economy for the next two years. In his view, prices of commodities are not going to come down any time soon as the US and other advanced economies are at the moment witnessing unprecedented...
Read moreMuslims in Bangladesh, as also elsewhere in the world, will observe Eid-ul-Azha in correspondence with Hajj, one of the five sacred pillars of Islam. Those who are going to perform Hajj have already reached Saudi Arabia. Formal rituals of Hajj will take place from July 7 to July 12 in...
Read moreIn terms of liveability, there has been little improvement in Dhaka's global ranking this year. The Bangladesh capital reportedly ranks as the seventh least liveable city in the world, moving up three spots from its 2021 ranking, according to an annual report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. However, this city...
Read moreBangladesh has been experiencing dengue fever for the past several years. But are we actually looking at ways through which we can get rid of it? Unfortunately the answer is no. We really need to focus on coming up with methods that enable us to fight this menace. Nowadays dengue...
Read moreThe International Centre for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) in Dhaka has reportedly been struggling to cope with the number of diarrhoea patients for past several weeks. And a large number of the patients are from Dhaka's Jatrabari area. The situation is worse than it was ever before; perhaps...
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