RMG sector shifts to digital wage payments

Massive shift to digital wages payment in Bangladesh’s Ready Made garments (RMG) sector is experienced during the recent time, said a survey report.  The survey was conducted on May 15 and 16, 2020 by researchers working for a local research institute in Bangladesh, South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), and a U.S.-based NGO, Microfinance Opportunities (MFO). The researchers surveyed 1,384 workers in the RMG sector in Bangladesh by telephone. The workers and the researchers had previously participated in theGarment Worker Diaries study, which collected data from 1,300 workers throughout 2019 and until the end of January 2020. The workers are employed in factories spread across the five main industrial areas of Bangladesh (Chittagong, Dhaka City, Gazipur, Narayanganj, and Savar). Almost three-quarters are women. Though the sample over-represents women, it can be considered to be roughly representative of workers in the sector as a whole.The major findings...

BD chairs regional aviation meet over Covid-19

Bangladesh on Thursday chaired a virtual regional meeting attended by aviation authorities of 23 countries in the region and discussed over the challenges of the aviation industry in post COVID-19 pandemic period, reports BSS.Asia Pacific Regional Office of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Bangkok organized the meeting under its CAPSCA (Collaborative Arrangement for Prevention and Management of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation).Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB)...

CCCI selling essentials at subsidised prices

The Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) has been selling essential goods with subsidised price for the people of Chattogram city since the beginning of Holy Ramadan month.The programme is aimed at giving i...

Expats return home have no source of income now: Brac

About 87 percent of the migrant workers who returned to Bangladesh due to coornavirus pandemic lockdown have no source of income at the moment, according to a survey by Brac.Thirty-three percent can live by their savings for three months or more while 52 percent said they need emergency financial assistance. Brac Migration Programme conducted the telephone survey styled "Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives and livelihoods of returnee migrants” among 558 migrants who have returned to Bangladesh during January to March. Of them 92 percent were male.The survey also looked at the mental health aspect of them and found that they are suffering from depression, anxiety and many other psychological conditions.Head of Brac Migration Programme Shariful Hasan at the virt...

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Shakib to miss Tamim’s live show

Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal’s popular programme ‘Tamim’ Live Show’ is set to end on Saturday after it gave the fans some delightful moments over the past three weeks amid countrywide unofficial shutdown, reports BSS.The last episode will feature three other cricketers Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah Riyad, which means four of the Bangladesh’s ‘Feb 5’ will be present in the last show.There was a expectation that Shakib Al Hasan, the other one of ‘Feb 5’ will join the last show to make it complete. But Tamim revealed that Shakib, who is now in USA, can’t be present in theshow due to his personal affairs.“Our last episode will be aired on Saturday. Many asked me when Shakib will appear in my show..so I contacted Shakib 10/12 days ago because I wanted five of us to present in the last show. But Shakib said due to his personal affair, he can’t be with us,” Tamim said after his show with New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson on Thursday.“A person could have some work, so there is no problem in it. I don’t think we need to discuss ‘why Shakib is not present here’. No need to make it an issue. I am grateful to the three players -Mashrafe, Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur that they agree to come here. Saturday’s show will be my last episode,” he said.Considered as one of the best batsmen in the country, opener Tamim has brought different guests for each episode. Streaming the first two sessions with wicket-keeper batsman Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmu...

Don’t overlook dengue danger amid pandemic

It is worrying to learn that like previous years, mosquito-borne disease dengue might strike with its full virulence this year too amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crisis.  Experts raised th...

Cyclone in the time of pandemic

Already grappling with effects of a global pandemic, Bangladesh is now confronting another major cause for concern, Cyclone Amphan, a storm of historic scale.At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is raging across the country and almost the entire admi...

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