Protesting tea workers halt Paharika Express demanding wage raise
Demonstrating tea workers today halted Paharika Express, which runs on Chattogram-Sylhet route, demanding a daily wage of Tk 300.
Tea workers' leaders to sit with state minister for labour on Thursday
State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian will hold a meeting with tea workers' leaders on Thursday (August 25, 2022) to resolve the ongoing crisis demanding an increase in the wages of tea workers.
RMG workers block road in Savar demanding pending salaries
The workers of a garment factory blocked a road in Hemayetpur area of Savar demanding their salaries this noon.
“Don’t force me to take to the streets for tea workers’ wage”
Acclaimed poet Nirmalendu Goon has demanded that the daily wage of tea workers be raised to Tk 300.
Tea workers will continue demo for Tk 300 wage
Many tea garden workers last night vowed to continue their protests for Tk 300 daily wage, hours after they called off their strike following the prime minister's directives for raising their daily wage from Tk 120 to Tk 145.
Allow UN to probe rights violations
Families of enforced disappearance victims yesterday demanded that the United Nations be allowed to investigate the alleged rights violations committed by law enforcers.
PM directs to raise tea workers' wage to Tk 145; strike called off
Moulvibazar Deputy Commissioner Mir Nahid Ahsan has said the daily wage of tea workers has been increased from Tk 120 to Tk 145, on the directive of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Assault over dress: 2 rights bodies object to the comments by HC bench
Questions raised by the High Court during a hearing of a case filed over a woman being assaulted for the dress she was wearing will encourage further harassment of women, two rights organisations said today.
Victimising journalists: A decades-long tradition of denying justice
Twenty-two years have come and gone since her husband was shot to death, but Selina Akhter Lucky has all but given up hope for justice for the brutal murder.
“Rights activists could meet UN rights chief as Bangladesh not police state”
Law Minister Anisul Huq today (August 16, 2022) criticised human rights activists of the country for expressing concern about the human rights situation in Bangladesh to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.