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Gazipur: 10,000 workers stage work absentia over sacked peers

Around 10,000 garment workers of two factories in Gazipur's Konabari today staged a work absentia demanding the reinstatement of their sacked collegues

3w ago

Dhaka-Mymensingh highway: TNZ workers lift blockade

Traffic returns to normalcy after workers assured of arrear payments

3w ago

Wage arrears a bane for RMG protesters

Delayed salary payment from a handful of RMG factory owners triggered the latest bout of labour unrest

3w ago

Garment export to US falls 6.29% in Jan-Sep

Bangladesh shipped $5.41 billion worth of apparels to the American market in the nine months

4w ago

ERF-Nagad Best Reporting Award 2023 / Star journo Ahsan Habib, 18 others awarded

Habib won the first prize in the private sector category for series reports on "War hit private sector harder than pandemic"

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Garment exporters prefer cheaper Maldives, bypassing Dhaka, Indian airports

Exporters say the traditional air shipment routes through Dhaka, Kolkata, Colombo or Singapore had either become too expensive or too slow

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Denim Expo begins in Dhaka tomorrow

Bangladesh Apparel Exchange will organise the two-day expo

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Thursday’s Clash: 9 held, 1,000 workers sued

At least nine people were arrested over clashes between police, army personnel, and demonstrating RMG workers in the capital’s Kachukhet and Mirpur-14 areas on Thursday.

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RMG workers block Nabinagar-Chandra highway

The workers of Birds Group have blocked the Nabinagar-Chandra highway's Bypail area in Ashulia industrial area, demanding unpaid salaries

2m ago

RMG workers block Dhaka-Mymensingh highway demanding arrears

The workers of Apparel Plus Limited blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur demanding unpaid salaries

2m ago

Bullet-hit RMG worker dies following clash with 'law enforcers' in Ashulia

An RMG worker died with bullet wounds after a clash broke out between protesting workers and law enforcers in Ashulia today

2m ago

RMG owners demand greater security to keep factories open amid labour unrest

They made the demand at a press conference at the BGMEA office 

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India sets roadmap to grow textiles industry to $350 billion by 2030

The country also targets generating 6 crore textile jobs by that time, India’s textiles minister says

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Demo for arrears: Traffic movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway halted for 7 hours

Workers of Seasons Dresses Limited in Gazipur city blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for around seven hours today demanding the remaining half-month salary of July

2m ago

Death of a garments worker in Ashulia: How it happened

But for Rokeya Begum and her family, things will never get back to normal

2m ago

20 RMG workers sued over 'beating factory officials' in Ashulia

Authorities of an ready-made garments factory in Ashulia's Jamgra area, filed a case against 20 workers over allegations of vandalising the factory and beating up its officials

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Bangladesh, Vietnam overtake India in low-cost manufacturing: WB

India’s share in global trade has not kept up with its fast-growing economy, as Vietnam and Bangladesh have surpassed the country as low-cost manufacturing and export hubs, according to a recent report of World Bank (WB)..Despite India’s rapid economic growth, the proportion of trade in go

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Garment factories not reopening tomorrow

The BGMEA took the decision today in an emergency meeting

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