News and analysis about the legislative, legal and insurance market issues that affect workers compensation managers, as well as strategies for reducing comp claims and costs, promoting workplace safety and returning injured employees to … [Read More]

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Nearly five months after the deadliest incident in garment manufacturing history, the suffering is far from over in Bangladesh. Activists and health-care professionals decry a lack of psychological and financial support for scores of survivors and rescue workers stricken with invisible … [Read More]

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Ten remarkable infrastructure developments in India From roadways, railways to airports and other smart-city initiatives, the last few years have … [Read More]

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BRITISH safety experts are flying to Bangladesh to try to prevent a repeat of the devastating garment factory collapse which killed more than 1,100 workers. The team of three, two from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and one from the Better Regulation Delivery Office, will advise the Bangladeshi building regulations agency on how [...]

British safety experts are flying to Bangladesh to try to prevent a repeat of the devastating garment factory collapse which killed more than 1,100 … [Read More]

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International-clothing makers, who used the factories where two accidents led to deaths of more than 1200 Bangladeshis, have failed to reach a deal on the creation of a compensation fund for victims. According to the BBC, only a third of the retailers who used the factories turned up for a two-day meeting on the issue [...]

A group of leading fashion retailers have failed to agree a compensation deal for the victims of two disasters in Bangladeshi factories that killed over 1,200 people, with less than a third of the companies that source clothes from the buildings involved even showing up to the … [Read More]

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Bangladeshi garment workers protest in Dhaka on Friday for better wages and compensation for victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty … [Read More]

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Bangladeshi authorities should release a human rights activist detained in connection with his work, a coalition of human rights groups said today in a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed. Adilur Rahman Khan, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent human rights defenders and secretary of the group Odhikar, was arrested on August 10, 2013. [...]

India is developing border infrastructure to boost trade and security along the 4,096 km India- Bangladesh border. India is upgrading seven Land Custom Stations into world-class Integrated Checkposts with customs and immigration facilities at a cost of Rs. 467 crores for smooth cross-border movement of people, goods and transport. The Checkposts will be [...]