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The Minimum Wages Board has recommended Tk 3,000 as salary for an entry level garment worker despite opposition from factory owners.
The garment owners wanted the government to fix the minimum wages at Tk 2,560 a month. The entry level workers constitute around 20 per cent of the sector's around three million workers.... read more>>
Will privatisation programme make any real headway?
Shahiduzzaman Khan
Privatisation Commission (PC), according to the latest indication, is now poised to divest 23 state-owned enterprises read more>>SC upholds HC verdict with certain modifications
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the High Court verdict that scrapped the 5th Amendment read more>>Mannan Bhuiyan passes away
Veteran politician, freedom fighter and former BNP secretary general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan died at a city hospital after midnight Tuesday at the age of 67, report agencies.
"He breathed his last at 12:02am," said an official of the Square Hospital, where Bhuiyan had been undergoing treatment for cancer and was kept under artificial life support system for a couple of weeks.
He left behind wife, two sons and a host of relatives, political colleagues and admirers across the political lines to read more>>Issue of VAT on tuition fees to be resolved: Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith Wednesday said that he would soon meet with the members of the managing boards read more>>
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Pakistani plane crashes with 150 on board - JS body suggests offloading of Janata, Rupali shares
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- YKK to expand its business in Bangladesh (1795)
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- 13,000 new cases of cervical cancer detected every year in country (1624)
- IPO diary (1526)
- Excess liquidity in banks drops by 4.0pc in July (1450)
- Anthrax spreading alarmingly (1427)
- Draft industrial policy may get cabinet nod tomorrow (1357)
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