Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) activists staged protests across Europe on Friday calling on major brands to pay compensation for fire and building collapse victims in Bangladesh. The protests took place exactly one month after the Rana Plaza factory collapse and exactly six months after the Tazreen f
At least fifty people were injured as RMG workers clashed with police after the authorities of 30 readymade garment factories in Ashulia industrial belt shut their production for Saturday. The workers have also been demonstrating for several weeks demanding a pay hike in their salaries. Badrul Alam,
BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has urged the government again to sit for a dialogue to decide the framework on the election-time government. If you have reservations about neutral caretaker government, then it may be an interim government; we've no reservations about it, he said
The number of the country's teenage smokers reached at 68 percent, registering 11 percent rise in the last one year, a survey report said here on Thursday. The report was disclosed at a function at the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) where Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was present as the chief guest.
Three-time champions South Korea reached their seventh Sudirman Cup final when they defeated a spirited Thailand 3-1 on Saturday. They will likely battle for the trophy against defending champions China, who are overwhelming favourites to overcome Denmark in the second semi- final later Saturday. K
Inter Milan fired coach Andrea Stramaccioni on Friday and hired Walter Mazzarri as his replacement, five days after concluding the Serie A season with a highly disappointing ninth-place finish. Inter bid Stramaccioni goodbye in an official announcement on its website and said it had signed Mazzarri
Mariah Carey suffered a wardrobe malfunction when her dress popped open on stage during the “Good Morning America’s” Summer Concert Series in Central Park on Saturday morning. The back of the singer’s skin tight pink dress popped open while she was being interviewed by the show's host, Lara Spencer
Singer Katy Perry, who has been single since splitting from John Mayer earlier this year, is said to have struck up a romance with her agent Michael Kives. “Katy and Michael have been hooking up. They were friends first, but Katy leaned on Michael for emotional support after her break-up with John,
There has been a sixth night of rioting in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, despite police reinforcements being deployed. Cars were set alight in poor suburbs inhabited largely by immigrants, although the
Eleven people were killed in the southern Philippines on Saturday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country's deadliest terror attacks, the military said. The fighting left seven
Russia's finance ministry said yesterday it had hired the US banking major J.P. Morgan as a consultant for helping improve its image with the world's three main ratings agencies amid worries of an imm
With opening of Dawei's deep-sea port in Myanmar, Thailand's western part is poised to become a logistics and transportation hub as well as tourist destination, according to analysts here. Chaiyaporn