The labour and employment ministry has requested the Bangladesh Bank to urgently facilitate loan rescheduling, provide essential working capital, and reopen back-to-back Letter of Credit (LC) ...

The government is set to ratify the long-awaited ILO Convention 190 today, which addresses violence and harassment in the workplace, said Sanwar Jahan Bhuiyan, secretary to the labour and employment ...

In the long, tumultuous history of India’s path to independence, some episodes stand out for the sheer intensity of human suffering they reveal.

Days after three people were killed in violent protests in Bangladesh's Khagrachari district, a video of soldiers in military ...

Dhaka erupted in violence as hundreds protested the signing of Bangladesh’s new political charter. Demonstrators, including ...

Bangladesh's ambitious "July Charter" for state reform, drafted after last year's deadly student-led uprising, was backed by ...

Protests erupted in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka over a new political charter introduced by Muhammad Yunus and signed by most ...

Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Kamal, who is also in hiding. Chowdhury pleaded guilty in July but has not been ...

A prosecutor in Bangladesh is seeking the death penalty for ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a case involving charges ...

Sri Lanka's Aragalaya protests, Bangladesh's 2024 July uprising, Nepal's Gen-Z revolution and Indonesia's anti-corruption protests— differ in their immediate causes, they share common roots in ...

The Gender Platform Bangladesh has demanded the swift finalisation and gazette notification of the "Sexual Harassment Prevention and Protection Act in Workplaces and Educational Institutions" to ...

Supply chains are human chains. When they’re built on silence and disposability, they collapse. Addressing gender-based violence is not charity. It’s justice. And it’s long overdue. Because no audit, ...