Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is committed to ensuring compliance with regard to labour rights, workplace safety and environmental standard in Bangladesh’s apparel and textile industry as its contribution to the country’s economy is immense, UNB reports. "The…

Employers with existing illegal foreign workers can continue to hire them as the Malaysian Government has agreed to issue temporary work passes for these workers, reports the Star Online from Malaysia. The move ensures that operations and production are not be disrupted and will allow authorities to…

A district-level leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was allegedly murdered in Satkhira yesterday. The body of Hasibul Hasan Emon, 25, joint secretary of Satkhira district unit BCL, was found in a fish enclosure in Amtola Beel area of Dhulihar union of Sadar upazila yesterday morning. Hasibul…

At least 52 aid workers and civilians were killed yesterday when an air force jet accidentally bombed a camp in northeast Nigeria instead of Boko Haram militants, AFP reports quoting medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The incident happened at about 9:00 am (0800 GMT) in Rann, in the far…

The much-talk about Narayanganj 7-murder case verdict has proved that no criminal, whether influential or not, could not avert justice, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said yesterday. “The criminals, however influential they might be, will not get impunity,” the Chief Justice said in…

A Bangladeshi working in Malaysia was killed by some unidentified miscreants while he was returning to his native village after landing in Dhaka. His body was recovered from Haidarabad area of Gazipur near the Dhaka-Rajshahi rail tracks yesterday morning. The man was identified as Shafikul Islam (38),…