In the wake of labour unrest over demands to raise the minimum wage, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has issued directives to take appropriate measures to ensure that factories remain operational.
Government employees have begun receiving salaries under the new National Pay Scale, but payments remain uneven.
Police have clashed with garment workers protesting in Dhaka’s Mirpur-10 area to demand a minimum wage of Tk 30,000.
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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has called an emergency meeting with ministers and advisors over garment workers’ protests demanding a Tk 30,000 minimum wage and clashes with police.
Gas pressure may fall across Bangladesh for four days from Wednesday as maintenance at Summit’s floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Cox’s Bazar’s Moheshkhali reduces supplies to the national grid.
Cyclonic storm Murasu has intensified over the Bay of Bengal and is expected to strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm before crossing India’s Andhra Pradesh coast on Nov 2, the Bangladesh Meteorological Department has said.
Authorities have declared a day’s holiday at 177 garment factories in the Savar-Ashulia industrial belt amid protests over minimum wages and other demands, Industrial Police say.
A Dhaka court has remanded Jerika Tasnim Disha, the young woman who was seen entering and leaving a bar in Uttara with former Air Force officer Tahsif Souri, for four days.
Garment workers are blocking roads in Dhaka’s Mirpur-10 roundabout area to demand a minimum monthly wage of Tk 30,000.
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Bus services have begun operating under a franchise system on seven routes in Dhaka, comprising six regular routes and one circular route, as part of Dhaka’s bus route rationalisation initiative.
Police have arrested a young woman in the murder case filed over the death of former air force officer Tahsif Souri, whose body was recovered from a river.