Bangladesh

The United States has conveyed to Bangladesh that working with trading partners to support workers’ rights, including freedom of association and collective bargaining, is a top priority for the Biden-Harris Administration. The United States emphasized the importance of combatting violence against workers and union organizers, as well as anti-union discrimination and other unfair labour practices, reports UNB. Bangladesh and the ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:   The Mayor of Salisbury, Cllr Atiqul Hoque, represented our modern medieval City at the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Forum on the 13-14 September 2023 in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a country which has a unique connection to Salisbury. The invitation came from the Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC), Lord Marland of Odstock. The prestigious ...

Additional Inspector General of police (IGP) Habibur Rahman has been made new Police Commissioner of Dhaka. Habibur Rahman is currently the chief of Tourist Police. He will replace outgoing Commissioner Khandaker Golam Faruq, according to a notification issued by the home ministry in this regard on Wednesday. Khandker Faruq is going to retire on October 2 and Habibur Rahman will ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday was accorded special honour by the Brown University as the United Nations recognised her brainchild community clinic model to reach healthcare services to the Bangladesh people’s doorsteps. Dr. Mukesh K. Jain, Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences of The Warren Alpert Medical School of the Brown University ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the world financial system needs fundamental shift to address the ongoing financial crisis across the globe. She put forward five points in reshaping the financial system while speaking at the High-level Roundtable titled “Towards a Fair International Financial Architecture” held at UN Headquarters in New York. The points are: First, MDBs, IFIs, and ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said community based primary health care is the key to achieving universal health coverage, calling upon the global development partners to support the efforts in the developing nations to reach healthcare services to all. “We call upon our development partners, including multilateral financing institutions, to extend their support for the cause of community-centric health ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that because of the current government’s fascist attitude, journalists feel impelled to resort to self-censorship. He voiced his concerns over the state of democracy and freedom of the press in Bangladesh, saying, “It’s a shame, and it hurts to see some media personalities and owners speaking in favour of this terrible ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   We are trying to contribute to the lessening of the sufferings of humanity and uphold democracy. We have to come together against all Neo-colonial neoliberal efforts to distort the image of our country, a country born out of the human rights struggle in ’71, is true to the principles and fundamentals of democracy and human rights, ...

Bangladesh and Germany signed two technical cooperation agreements on Tuesday against two projects in the fields of the Sundarbans Mangroves and in tanneries. The agreements are on the projects titled “Integrated management of the Sundarbans Mangroves and the Marine Protected Area ‘Swatch of No Ground (SoNG)’ Bangladesh” and “Good Working Conditions in Tanneries (GOTAN)”. Secretary of Economic Relations Division (ERD) ...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Tuesday said World Health Organization (WHO) Director General (DG) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highly praised the Bangladesh government’s measures for overall development of health sector to ensure health services to all. “The WHO director general highly lauded government’s steps to develop overall health system and ensure health services for all in Bangladesh,” he said ...