Mumbai, July 28: Former Miss Universe Lara Dutta was the showstopper on the ramp for fashion designer Rina Dhaka on the last day of the Delhi Couture Week. She looked gorgeous in a black lehenga...
Garment workers' unions in Bangladesh have given a lukewarm reaction to the announcement of a new minimum wage for millions of workers. On Thursday it was announced the new minimum wage would...
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Islamist parties in Bangladesh face a ban from politics after the Supreme Court ruled religion-based organizations cannot participate in political life, the law minister said Thursday. Bangladesh banned religion-based politics after it gained...
Up to 2 million workers in country's biggest export industry will earn monthly wage of 3,000 takas (£28) after months of protests A protest by Bangladeshi garment workers, who are mostly women, in Dhaka yesterday. Millions have accepted an 80% increase in wages....
DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh's Supreme Court has reinstated a ban on Islamicpolitical parties in the latest blow to religious hardliners in the impoverished South Asian country, a minister said Thursday. In a detailed, 184-page verdict released late Wednesday,...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80 percent after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a government minister said. The official minimum wage has been set at 3,000...
web CHANDRA, 29 July 2010 (IRIN) - As swollen monsoon rivers and rising sea levels threaten to engulf more land across Bangladesh, NGOs are training thousands of farmers in traditional soil-less farming on water. Agriculture accounts for almost a quarter of Bangladesh’s...
(Recasts with government decision) By Anis Ahmed DHAKA, July 29 (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Thursday nearly double the minimum wage for millions of workers in the key export garment industry, but the raise is unlikely to end weeks of protests that have disrupted...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's Supreme Court has restored 'secularism' as one of the basic tenets in the country's 1972 Constitution. In a 186-page ruling announced on Wednesday, the appellate division of the apex court said: "Preamble and the relevant provisions of the...