The government will recruit 6,000 new social workers, bringing the workforce from 3,000 to 9,000.
The European Union is providing Bangladesh with EUR 2 million (around BDT 20 crore) to strengthen key areas of its social security system with a specific focus on strengthening institutional set-up, ...
According to the UN World Happiness Report last March, Bangladesh has forwarded seven steps in the list of happiest countries in the world. Bangladesh has come 94th among 146 countries this year. ...
Experts say the government exaggerates the sector either in a bid to avoid embarrassment due to the low allocation or as part of a tendency to show higher allocation
The threats to the freedom of journalists and media workers are growing by the day, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
Speakers at a roundtable said a large number of tea garden workers are left out of social protection programmes despite various government initiatives. Children in the tea-garden community remain ...
The term ‘Third Gender’ was not used in the government gazette notification. Instead, the government has designated hijra individuals as “Hijra lingo (Hijra gender)”
Arrest all the miscreants immediately and hand over them to court. Give them exemplary punishment so that no one dares commit such crime in future.
Meta getting a taste of jittery markets after its $10.3-billion quarterly profit and daily user-growth fell short of expectations
Shringla noted that India had under the Rakhine State Development Programme contributed to the economic development of that area as a long-term measure
Eight transgender people now work for Samsung Fair Electronics in Narsingdi. They are working as security guards at the main gates, assisting in office work, cooking in the canteen and housekeeping.
Shahnaz Huda, a professor of law at the University of Dhaka, talked to Prothom Alo about the rising trend of child marriage during coronavirus pandemic and other issues.
About 11 per cent of people in urban areas are covered by social protection whereas 19 per cent of the urban population is poor, says the World Bank report
Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a $250 million loan agreement to finance reforms for improving the inclusiveness and responsiveness of the country’s social development ...
It is undoubtedly good news that Bangladesh has gone seven steps ahead in the global peace index. However, in the global context, we are still lagging behind by far
