Dhaka, Dec 27 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the public representatives to work with responsibility for the welfare of people, gaining their trust and confidence. “You’ll have to work for the welfare of people, changing their fate…

Dhaka, Dec 27 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the public representatives to work with responsibility for the welfare of people, gaining their trust and confidence. “You’ll have to work for the welfare of people, changing their fate…
DHAKA – Toby Radford has finally joined the High Performance (HP) Unit as their coach after he returned negative for Covid-19. Radford boarded the Bangladesh flight from the United Kingdom with a Covid-19 negative certificate. Arriving in Bangladesh, the English…
Back in the Oval Office, Donald Trump says he wants Americans to have access to the treatment he had. US President Donald Trump has returned to work and held briefings at the Oval Office less than a week after he…
DHAKA – Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin, who was reelected as the president of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) for the fourth successive terms, said he wants to work with everyone for the development of country’s football. After declaring the final results of…
Dhaka, July 22 – Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday instructed the authorities concerned to suspend the ongoing construction work of all flyovers and underpasses in the country for seven days before and after Eid-ul-Azha.
Kanni Wignaraja, UN Assistant Secretary-General has said that four key issues frame the agenda for future of work — digital transformation, green jobs, reliance of adaptive techniques, and closing the gender gap in jobs.
By Carlo Ratti BOSTON – Last month, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company would allow its employees, currently working from home in accordance with social-distancing protocols, to stay there for good. Several other big businesses – from Facebook…
23 May 2020 – The UN chief António Guterres commended the governments and people of India and Bangladesh on Saturday, for their life-saving efforts ahead of devastating Cyclone Amphan, and for the effective relief effort, wishing those survivors injured and…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged all to work together to preserve biodiversity and help achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
by Judith Clifton, Amy Glasmeier and Mia Gray on 14th May 2020 @_mia_gray The one sure way not to forecast the impact of artificial intelligence technologies is technological determinism.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returns to work on Monday more than three weeks after being hospitalised for the coronavirus and spending three days in intensive care.
by Federico Varese, Rebecca W.Y. Wong OXFORD – Since the outbreak of COVID-19, which is widely suspected to have emerged from Wuhan’s Huanan Market in December 2019, public-health and animal-rights advocates have been calling for more scrutiny of “wet markets,”…
News Desk Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will unveil a work plan tomorrow to overcome the possible economic impact on the country due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
Employers and policy-makers can drive real progress in improving women’s working lives.
Road, Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said Padma Bridge’s construction work will be hampered if the coronavirus situation does not improve within two months.
Dhaka, Jan 30 – The cabinet committee on purchases has approved a project of the disaster management ministry to help to train at least 60,000 youths of displaced Myanmar citizen known as ‘Rohingya’ to improve access to basic services and…
Dhaka, Jan 22 – The demolition work on the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association building (BGMEA Bhaban) formally started on Wednesday.
Rajshahi, Dec 03 – The construction work of extension building of Rahmatunnisa Hall of the university has been inaugurated to create accomodation facility for another 100 students.
Madrid, 6 Dec (Evelyn Teh) – Developing countries, led by the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), called for a mandate at the UNFCCC COP 25 for a two-year work programme on closing the pre-2020 implementation gaps under the Convention and the…
A year after Bollywood followed Hollywood by naming male predators accused of sexual harassment, many women say they have suffered while the alleged perpetrators are back in the limelight.
October 21, 2019 SANDRP – With work on NHPC Ltd’s 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri hydro power project restarting after a wait of almost eight years, anti-dam organisations led by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS)…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged India-Bangladesh businessmen to work for mutual benefits and make the region more prosperous, saying the two neighbouring countries are enjoying the bestbever relations as she addressed the India-Bangladesh Business Forum (IBBF).
Dhaka, Aug 06 – Col Oli Ahmed, Chairman, Liberal Democratic Party and founder of the Jatiya Mukti Manch on Monday called for unity and selfless movement of all professional groups of people to secure the freedom of the people which,…
Dhaka, Aug 3 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday vowed to work as long as she is alive to materialise the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to establish a Sonar Bangladesh. “I have nothing…
Dhaka, July 29 – The need for coordination of biodiversity conservation activities was emphasised at the launch of the Bangladesh Platform on Biodiversity Conservation by the Bangladesh National Committee of IUCN in Dhaka on Monday.
by Nabarun Guha, Sahana Ghosh on 23 July 2019 • Deadly monsoon floods have ravaged Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and other protected areas of the state. • Nearly 200 animals have been killed in Kaziranga National Park, home to the…
Kareena Kapoor Khan’s next outing will be in Karan Johar’s Takht, a multi-starrer featuring Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Vicky Kaushal, Anil Kapoor, Bhumi Pednekar and Janhvi Kapoor. The actress recently shared that the movie, which is set in the Mughal…
A sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons sold on Wednesday for $91.1 million at an auction organized by Christie’s in New York — a record price for a living artist. “Rabbit”, a stainless steel casting of an inflatable rabbit, overtook…
Actor Saif Ali Khan is venturing into the horror comedy genre with his next film, Bhoot Police. The film was announced yesterday and also stars Fatima Sana Shaikh and Ali Fazal. “I’m so pleased about Bhoot Police. The subject is…
Speakers at a discussion here yesterday urged all government and non-government organisations to work unitedly for eliminating the deadly disease Tuberculosis (TB) from the country. “All have to work together to eliminate TB from the country to help achieving health-related…