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July 3, 2023

Women cops 2nd batch to join UN mission

A second batch of women police will be dispatched from Dhaka tonight to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission. women policeThe 125-member unit will fly an UN-chartered flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport late tonight for Congo, a press release from Bangladesh Police said. Atia Hosna, an additional superintendent of police, has been chosen to be in-charge of the unit. Another female unit, the first dispatched for the programme, has been serving in Haiti under the UN peacekeeping mission with skill and prestige...

Concerns over BD migrant worker attacks in Maldives

Bangladesh has raised concerns over the recent wave of threats faced by Bangladeshi expatriates working in Maldives after a recent spike in violence saw two Bangladeshi nationals murdered and three stabbed in capital Male, a statement from the high commission said m workerson Thursday. The statement said that the high commission had held meetings with President Abdulla Yameen, Home Minister Umar Naseer and Police Commissioner Hussein Waheed to maintain safety of their citizens in Maldives. The high commission said they were keeping a clos...

Biman negotiating Dubai authorities to deter gold smuggling

At a press briefing at Biman headquarters, the newly appointed managing director and CEO Kyle Haywood said that they are negotiating with Dubai authorities to increase security at their airports in order to deter people from smuggling gold. biman“We’re doing whatever we can,” said Haywood, who has been in the airline industry for the last 25 years, serving with different international airlines like British Airways, Etihad Airways, and low-cost carrier Air Arabia. Gold smuggling in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been rising for the past couple o...

Govt mulls new agencies for MRPs

After the disappointing performance of the Malaysian outsourcing company to issue machine-readable passport (MRP) for nearly 30 lakh expatriates, the government is now thinking about outsourcing new agencies. Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Mosharraf Hossain said, following a meeting with the official of home and foreign ministry at the Probashi Kalyan Bhaban this morning. passport BdThe minister came up with the remark when the expatriates are anxiously waiting for news about getting the MRP as they could lose th...

Bangladesh schools stay open — even for cyclones

Cyclones have killed hundreds of thousands in this South Asian country over the last century, but in the last two decades the death toll has declined rapidly, thanks to the widespread rollout of early warning systems and shelters. The newest addition to that arsenal won’t just save Bangladeshis; it will educate them. The three most destructive cyclones of the last 50 years struck Bangladesh with winds stronger than 135 miles per hour, but their effects varied considerably. A storm killed some 500,000 Bangladeshis in 1970, one left about 140,000 dead in 1991, and Cyclone Sidr resulted in 4,234 fatalities in 2007. This decline has been spurred by the Red Crescent Society’s development of a grass-roots network of volunteers who communicate a cyclone’s approach. The government’s investme...

Facts about BD apparel production, not the false narrative

JanSport brand has the privilege of providing some of the licensed collegiate apparel for the University of Wisconsin. We’re proud that we screen and embroider it at our facility in Appleton, Wisconsin, which employs nearly 800 hardworking men and women. Recently, a group of well-intentioned people have written their own narrative about the university’s relationship with the JanSport® brand and its parent company, VF Corporation. The topic: apparel rmg222production in Bangladesh. This portrayal, however, is unfortunately based on misleading st...