Senior Leadership Vacancies
As Chief Administrative Officer of the United Nations, the Secretary-General has the discretionary authority to appoint senior leaders. The Secretary-General exercises this authority with great care and has established a recruitment and selection process, bearing in mind the need to balance the transparency of the process with the need to share information with Member States…
US to look into ‘unhealthy competition’ in garment pricing
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) is going to hold a hearing involving Bangladesh to see whether a recent rise in prices of garment items sourced from the country had anything to do with unhealthy competition. The USITC found out that the prices the US paid for each unit of Bangladeshi garments had recently…
Fear of losing 5 billion USD investment
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 25-30 percent of agricultural and food products are lost annually in the country due to lack of conservation and management. According to the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, the total loss of lost products is 5 thousand crores. If we add the calculation…
Expulsion of upazila election candidates, wrong decision of BNP or strategy?
BNP, one of the main opposition parties of the country, has expelled the two hundred district and upazila level leaders who participated in the current upazila elections of Bangladesh by defying the party decision. Most of these leaders are known as good organizers or popular inside and outside the party at the local level. Many…
The United States hopes that Israel will also accept the ceasefire proposal if Hamas accepts
The United States hopes that Israel will accept the new cease-fire plan announced to end the ongoing war in Gaza, if Hamas agrees. This was stated by the spokesman of the country’s National Security Council, John Corby. US President Joe Biden unveiled the ceasefire plan last week. It said the ceasefire would be implemented in…
4 arrested in connection with gold robbery in Old Dhaka
Wari police station arrested four people in connection with gold robbery in Kaptanbazar of Old Dhaka in the capital last Thursday. They were arrested in raids in Dhaka and Narayanganj on Sunday night. At this time, 500 grams of gold was recovered from them. The arrested persons are Md. Mokhtar Hossain (54), Sadek Hossain (36)….
23 killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon
At least 23 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon. At least 23 people were killed and another 31 wounded late Tuesday night (October 15) in a series of airstrikes in several cities and regions in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the country’s official statistics. Anadolu news agency reported this information in a…