The rise in Britain’s youth unemployment rate to a 10-year high is posing tough questions for the country’s centre-left government about its policy of phasing out a lower minimum wage for younger workers. Official figures this week showed Britain’s jobless rate for people aged 16-24 rose to 16.1% in the final quarter of last year, up from 13.8% in the ...

Commerce, Industries, and Textiles and Jute Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir has said that the government has adequate food stocks to maintain market stability during the holy month of Ramadan. Speaking to journalists on Friday morning after exchanging greetings with government officials and party leaders at Osmani International Airport, the minister emphasised that ensuring stable prices of essential commodities remains one ...

Eight backcountry skiers were confirmed killed and a ninth was presumed to have perished when their tour group was overtaken by a football-field-sized avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains on Tuesday, in the deadliest US avalanche in 45 years, authorities said. Six survivors were rescued after search teams on skis fought through blinding snow, darkness, treacherous terrain and gale-force winds ...

King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was released from police custody on Thursday evening after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations he sent confidential government documents to Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor, who turned 66 on Thursday, had been questioned all day by detectives from Thames Valley Police. Earlier this month, the police force said it was ...

Minister of Labour and Employment and Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Ariful Haque Chowdhury on Thursday said that addressing the problems faced by expatriates will be his top priority. Speaking to reporters at Sylhet Osmani International Airport in the afternoon after arriving in the city for the first time since taking oath as a minister, he said he had already ...

Bangladeshi women’s national footballer Anika Rania Siddiqui was celebrated on Thursday as a shining example of talent connecting Bangladesh and Sweden. The event, which highlighted the importance of supporting women in sport, saw Hanna Norell, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Sweden in Dhaka, join the celebrations. Norell even took to the pitch herself, kicking the ball alongside ...

All types of Indian visa activities will return to normal soon, said Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Sylhet Aniruddha Das. While interacting with journalists at the Sylhet District Press Club on Wednesday afternoon, he said that medical and double-entry visas are currently being issued. Initiatives have been taken to introduce other categories of visas including tourist visas in phases. He ...

Bangladesh’s foreign exchange reserves stood at $34.78 billion, according to the latest data from the Bangladesh Bank (BB) released here today. However, according to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) BPM-6 accounting method, the reserves stood at $30.06 billion, the BB added.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman presided over an inter-ministerial meeting at the Cabinet Division meeting room at the Bangladesh Secretariat today. The inter-ministerial meeting was held on ‘Planting 25 crore trees in five years’ and the national level river-canal-water bodies excavation and re-excavation programme. Ministers and state ministers of the concerned ministries were present at the meeting, said sources at the ...

Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment and Labour and Employment Minister Ariful Haque Chowdhury on Thursday urged officials to work collectively and with urgency to meet public expectations during the new government’s first six months in office. He made the remarks at an introductory meeting with officials and staff on his first working day at the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and ...