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Bangladesh allows welfare unions in special economic zones after factory building collapse

The Bangladeshi government has approved in principle the draft of a law for economic zones that includes the provision to allow workers to form welfare unions to bargain for their rights. The approval for “Bangladesh EPZ Labour Act-2014” draft came at the regular cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair on Monday. […]

Hope Mamata will see larger picture on Teesta: Bangladesh envoy

Tariq Karim has been Bangladesh’s envoy to India for the past five years, as a political appointee, and has steered the important agreement drafts of the Land Border Agreement and Teesta River water arrangement. Returning from Dhaka, where he had been a part of the bilateral negotiations between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the […]

Bangladesh ban Shakib Al Hasan for six months for ‘attitude problem’

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been banned for six months by the Bangladesh Cricket Board because of a “severe attitude problem”. The 27-year-old was punished for “serious misbehaviour” towards new coach Chandika Hathurusingha, reports BBC. “There will be no compromise when it comes to discipline” Nazmul Hassan Bangladesh cricket chief BCB president Nazmul Hassan […]

Bangladesh’s Rotten-Mango Crisis

by Tahmima Anam: As an apprentice anthropologist, I once had the misfortune of attempting to converse with the Indian critical theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Professor Spivak, who translated the work of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and wrote the famous essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” was visiting Dhaka, Bangladesh, and I went to meet her. […]

Bangladesh’s mobile phone users reach 116.24 mln

Bangladesh’s mobile phone subscribers topped 116 million at the end of May, with about 3 million new users in the first five months of this year, official data showed Wednesday. According to Bangladesh’s Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the total number of cell phone users in the South Asian country of about 153 million people reached […]

Bangladesh factory owners sweat it out over safety inspections

It took Western safety inspectors about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters, a Bangladeshi clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores and Debenhams. Two weeks later, the group that the inspectors represented changed its mind and allowed the factory to stay open, […]

Bangladesh’s Infoladies Bring the Internet to Villages on Bicycle

Only 5 million of Bangladesh’s 152 million citizens have regular Internet access. Three-quarters live in rural villages. The Infoladies, a group of about 50 women in their early 20s, travel through the countryside equipped with a laptop computer, a tablet, a smartphone, a digital camera, and a glucometer ministering to the technologically impoverished, reports Bloomberg […]

Bangladesh’s remittance inflow dips to 14.23 bln USD in 2013-14 fiscal year

The inflow of remittances by millions of non-resident Bangladeshis in the 2013-14 fiscal year concluded in June reached 14.23 billion U.S. dollars, an official said Sunday. “The flow of inward remittances in the 2013-14 financial year ( July 2013-June 2014) fell about 1.61 percent to 14.23 billion U.S. dollars,” the Bangladesh Bank (BB) official told […]

Banglalink launches 3G services in Bogra

DHAKA, May 9 (NsNewsWire) — The country’s second largest cell phone company Friday launched 3G services in Bogra followed by a jovial rally in the presence of massive crowd of all ages. The rally started by flying off balloons and consisted of 3G branded caravans, horse carts, paddle vans etc., along with the playing of […]