Staff Reporter
Most of the country’s factory owners are indifferent to the safety of their workers and though the laws are in place in this regard, their enforcement is not monitored, said a report of the Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation, an NGO.The report pointed out that the factory workers themselves take precautionary measures before […]

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The request came in form of an official letter to the EC from the five standing committee members on the last day of deadline set by the commission for two feuding factions of the party to reconcile.
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UNB, Dhaka
The Anti-Corruption Commission is going to submit charge sheets very soon in the two Niko graft cases filed against detained former Prime Ministers Khaleda Zia, Sheikh Hasina and others. “Charge sheets in the Niko cases are at the final stage. The charge sheets will be submitted very soon,” ACC director general (admin) Col Hanif […]

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Former Roman Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo won a historic victory in Paraguay’s presidential election Sunday, ending more than six decades of one-party rule with a mandate to help the nation’s poor and indigenous. [Read more]

On Sunday while concluding this joint military exercise to, General Moeen U Ahmed , the Chief of Staff of Bangladesh army said that all should work together to ensure world peace.  [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
The Supreme Court pronounces its crucial judgment today on government appeal challenging a year-old High Court ruling that it has the jurisdiction to dispose of petitions by persons seeking bail in criminal cases under the stringent Emergency Power Rules (EPR) 2007.On April 22 last year, a High Court division bench comprising Justice Nozrul Islam […]

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej on Sunday told Thais to put up with soaring rice prices because poor farmers in the kingdom were benefiting from the record highs. [Read more]