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DHAKA, Bangladesh November 11, 2013 (AP) –Garment workers demanding higher pay have clashed with police and attacked factories in an industrial belt on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital. The workers have rejected a proposed 5,300 takas ($66.25) monthly minimum wage, a raise by 77 percent. They demand 8,114 takas ($100) instead. Industrial Police Director Mustafizur […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 10 (World Bank Press Release) — The Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project supports the Government’s priority to improve agricultural productivity and ensure food security for the people. The project aims to enhance the productivity of agriculture in the flash-flood and drought-prone northern districts of Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilfamari, and Lalmonirhat; and salt-affected tidal surge areas in the southern districts of Barisal, Patuakhali, Barguna and […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 9 (Yunus Center Press Release) — Dato’ Sri Haji Mohammad Najib Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia, addressed the closing session of the second day of the Global Social Business Summit in KL on Friday. In his address at the Summit, he said that social business, developed by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, was a […]
Read MoreDHAKA, (Yunus Center Press Release) — The Global Social Business Summit 2013 opened today at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in KL, Malaysia. This is first time that the Summit has been organised in Asia, and is being attended by 600 delegates from all over the world. The program began with an electrifying performance by […]
Read MoreTOKYO, Nov. 7 (ADB statement) — Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) President Luis Alberto Moreno met today to discuss how the two regions can step up joint efforts to tackle shared opportunities and challenges, such as increased economic integration, private sector development, rising inequality, and a lack of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 6 (Yunus Center Press Release) — Global Social Business Summit- 2013 will be live streamed from November 7 at 9.30 AM (GMT+8). The Global Social Business Summit 2013 will be held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia from 7-9 November 2013, with the theme of “Social business to change the world”. There will be around […]
Read Moreগ্রামীণ ব্যাংক আইন ২০১৩ এর পাস এর প্রতিবাদে গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের সকল কর্মকর্তা কর্মচারী নভেম্বর ০৭, ২০১৩ তারিখে কালো ব্যাজ ধারন করবেন। এরই অংশ হিসেবে গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক প্রধান কার্যালয় মিরপুর-২, ঢাকায় কর্মরত সকল কর্মকর্তা কর্মচারী কালো ব্যাজ পরিহিত অবস্থায় বেলা ১২:৩০ থেকে গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক, প্রধান কার্যালয়ে অবস্থান করবেন। Source: গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক কর্মচারী সমিতি Press Release
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 5 (World Bank Press Release) — Fast action to cut common pollutants like soot – also known as black carbon – and methane will not only slow global warming, but save millions of lives. Reductions of these so-called short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) would slow rapid melting in the Arctic and in mountain regions with […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Nov. 4 (nsnewswire) — The government board has recommended 5,300 taka as the minimum monthly wage for the country’s around 4 million garment workers. The government in May this year, formed the wage board, headed by a Judge AK Roy, to set a fresh minimum wage structure for the garment sector. […]
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