Online Newspapers, Live TV Channels, Radios
World Media Directory Media Directory, Journalism Jobs, Social Media, CNN News, BBC Weather, BBC World News, CBS, Health Insurance, Insurance in USA, Life Insurance, USA News, Daily News, Fox, Bangladesh News, India News, Pakistan News, Latest News
Latest News
IUBAT Faculties join outdoor academic expedition
International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) is holding “Academic Retreat 2014” which is an outstation academic program being arranged away from capital at Cox’s Bazar. within a fascinating environment of seashore belt. Academic Retreat 2014 will be marked by wide range of exploration of a selected theme abounds with modalities for developing graduates Read More…»
An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet by Shwapnil Shojib
Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh is organising An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet by promising Bangladeshi artist, Mr. Swapnil Shojib at 6:30 PM on May 3, 2014 at the IGCC, House No. 35, Road No. 24, Gulshan-1, Dhaka. Born in 1991 at Faridpur, Mr. Shojib trained Read More…»
Bangladesh action on climate change
“Bangladesh puts greater emphasis on integrating Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in all relevant sectors. Bangladesh is considered a good performer in managing disaster and we have gathered many good lessons and practices over the years that can be and have been replicated in the context of CCA (Climate Change Adaptation)”, Read More…»
Govt action to improve rural power supply system
The government gave nod to a Tk 1,332.68 crore project aiming at improving rural power supply system in five divisions. Under the project, state-owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited (PGCB) will enhance capacity of grid substations and transmission lines in rural areas of Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions by December 2017. Approval Read More…»
Kathmandu Declaration on Financing Local Adaptation to Climate Change
8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change, 26th to 30th April 2014. Representatives of a range of public, civil society, private, local, regional, international agencies, and governmental and non-governmental organisations meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal at the 8th International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA) have come together to put forward the Kathmandu Read More…»
Global Experts Meeting on Migration and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Migration remains one of the means for individuals to seek freedom of choice and opportunity. It also provides avenues to better livelihood options, overcome poverty, escape conflicts, adapt to economic and environmental challenges and strive for a more prosperous future for the migrants and their families. Migration is first and foremost about people, their dignity, Read More…»
Three big financial shifts put spotlight on social and environmental impacts of large dams — again
Three big shifts in flows of finance have rendered recent efforts to limit the environmental and social impacts of large dams marginal, say researchers, who urge the backers of new dams to adopt the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol to ensure safeguards are in place. The call comes at a key point in the story Read More…»
Domestic Workers Devaluation and Discrimination: State of Labour in Bangladesh 2014
The Unnayan Onneshan is a progressive think‐tank that undertakes research for advancing ideas and building constituencies for social transformation. The institute advances critical scholarship, promotes inter‐disciplinary dialogue and amplifies grassroots perspectives. The public‐interest research institute works in collaboration with national partners, international organisations and leading universities. The Unnayan Onneshan was registered in 2003 as a Read More…»
DEBUNKING THE MYTHS: Domestic Worker Book
Waged domestic work, connecting the economics of home and the economics of workplace, is one of the world’s oldest professions with roots in both slave and feudal economies and is considered to be highly gendered, racialised, classed, personalised and informal service (Romero, 1992). Domestic workers, therefore, constitute an extremely heterogeneous group that generally carries out Read More…»
Discussion and Photo Exhibition Remembering the devastating cyclone 29 April 1991
Dhaka, 29 April 2014: Today at the National Press Club Auditorium right based organization COAST Trust and Photography institute Counter Foto jointly organized a panel discussion and a photo exhibition titled “Remembering 29 April 1991: Is our coast still safe?”. The honorable Deputy Minister to Environment and Forest Mr. Abdullah Al Islam Jacob MP inaugurates Read More…»
Devaluation and Discrimination of Domestic Workers
The Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, calls for codification of domestic workers, who historically have remained voiceless, economically devalued, socially discriminated and led downcast lives, as labourers and award of consequential entitlements of rights enshrined in the core labour standards. Debunking the orthodox myths, the think-tank builds five analytical properties of the domestic workers Read More…»
A comprehensive report on Publication Reward 2014 Ceremony of IUBAT
International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) has rewarded faculties of different disciplines who authored research oriented articles on core socio-economic issues which came out in international journals. The university, through a formal Publication Reward 2014 Ceremony, recognized the academic excellence of old and new scholars through a ceremony rewarding them in the form of cash Read More…»
Bangladesh Ambassador to USA urges the expatriate business community to promote trade and investment in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Ambassador to USA urges the expatriate business community to promote trade and investment in Bangladesh. On the occasion of 10th Anniversary of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce in Dallas, Texas, Bangladesh Ambassador to USA Akramul Qader addressed the expatriate business community recently at a reception held at the Marriott Hotel, Dallas. The reception was attended by Read More…»
Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism
Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish Foundation is going to organize a signing ceremony of “Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism” under the tripartite Memorandum of BFFEA, BSFF and Solidarity Center for promotion of ILO Core Labor Standards and Bangladesh Labor Act in the Bangladesh Shrimp Processing Plants” to be held at 05:00 pm on April 30, 2014 at the Read More…»
K.M. Mominur Rahman New Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bahrain
The Government has decided to appoint Major General K.M. Mominur Rahman, afwc, psc, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to the Kingdom of Bahrain. Major General K.M. Mominur Rahman was commissioned in Bangladesh Army in 1980. Before joining Ministry of Foreign Affairs on deputation he served in various capacities including the Executive Chairman of BEPZA, Read More…»