DHAKA - Members of Harijan communities in Bangladesh's southern port city of Barisal have asked for 80 percent reservation in the jobs such as sweepers and cleaners. The country is home to 1.5 million Harijans who were brought here during the British era from Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh in undivided India.
DHAKA - Bangladesh is reaching out to nations, including India, which export labour to the Gulf region and southeast Asia, to evolve a common stance on migrant workers' rights.
DHAKA - A Bangladesh High Court has ruled that the country is secular and that no one should be forced to wear the 'burka', or a full Islamic headdress.
DHAKA - Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman Sunday appointed A.B.M. Khairul Haque as the country's chief justice effective Thursday, an official announcement said.
DHAKA - A protest by two or more border guards could be termed a mutinous act under a legislation proposed for the force that is being revamped after hundreds of troopers took part in a rebellion in February last year, leaving 71 people dead.
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