A move is underway to amend the provision of requisite rate of worker representations for registration of trade unions (TUs) in industries, officials said, to meet international recommendations.
The ministry of labour and employment is working on the amendment to some of the provisions of the country's labour law in line with the recommendations from the [...]

GAIBANDHA, July 18 (BSS): The overall flood situation in char areas and the Brahmaputra river basin in four upazilas of the district improved significantly as the water level in the river marked fall on on Tuesday.
The officials of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) said the water level of the Brahmaputra river fell by 24 cm [...]

India will propose another road route from its state Meghalaya to its another state Bengal through Bangladesh.
 Indian ministry of external affairs has sought the attention of Bangladesh to further the proposed plan to connect Mahendraganj in South West Garo Hills of Meghalaya to Hili Land Port — Balurghat in Bengal through Goraghat, Palashbari and Gaibandha [...]

CHITTAGONG, July 18 (UNB): Six health workers of Sitakunda Health Complex have been transferred to Sandwip Upazila Health Complex for their negligence of duty as nine children at Tripurapara in Sitakkunda upazila have died of 'measles'.
Civil Surgeon Azizur Rahman Siddique disclosed this while speaking at a press briefing at Fouzdarhat Infectious Diseases Hospital here on [...]

The fifth death anniversary of prolific author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker Humayun Ahmed will be observed today (Wednesday) in a befitting manner, reports BSS.
Marking the day, family of the preeminent writer has chalked out various programmes.
The programmes include offering ziarat at the writer's graveyard, paying homage to the paramount writer at Nuhash Palli and [...]

CHITTAGONG, Jul 18: Snatchers allegedly took away a bag of a Chinese couple on their way to Dewanhat from Agrabad by a rickshaw in the city Tuesday.
Sub-inspector of Double Mooring police Kaiser Hamid said they have lodged a case with the police and the police were trying to trace the miscreants through checking the CCTV [...]

Asian stocks mostly rose on Monday, spurred by record high closes for the Dow and S&P 500 on bets that the Federal Reserve's policy will remain accommodative following lackluster US data, which sent the dollar reeling to a 10-month low.
Chinese stocks fell over 2 per cent in early trade but recouped some of the losses [...]

The US Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president's son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.
Donald Trump Jr has acknowledged that he met in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after he was told she might have damaging [...]

The government formed a high-level committee to finalise the draft amendments to labour-and EPZ laws accommodating all labour-rights issues raised by western stakeholders, failing which Bangladesh's European GSP may also be at risk.           
As per a recipe coming from last month's International Labour Conference (ILC), the government has to remake the laws within a timeframe [...]

The number of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) or auto-gas filling stations across the country is expected to increase tenfold to 120 by the end of 2017 boosted by favourable policy and mounting demand, industry insiders said.
The country's lone LP gas operator licence-holder — BM Energy (BD) Ltd — has started work on installing some 100 [...]