The Industrial Police (IP), responsible for providing security in industrial zones, urged the manufacturers of the country readymade garment (RMG) and textile factory owners to clear the wages, bonuses and allowances of the workers before Eid-ul-Adha holidays as per the government decision.
Speaking at a views exchange meeting with representatives from the RMG and textile sectors, and government agencies on Saturday in the capital, they also called the workers to demonstrate responsible behaviour regarding the wages, allowances and bonuses ahead of Eid.
“If the manufacturers pay the wages and allowances of the workers on time, the law-and-order situation in the industrial sector will be normal and the highways will also be safe,” Md Mahbubur Rahman, BPM(Bar), additional IGP of Industrial Police, said at the meeting at Industrial Police headquarters.
Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan today called upon the lawyers to play a role in ensuring justice for everyone in society without keeping limited their fight for establish justice in court only.
He made the call while addressing a reception ceremony of Mymensingh District Bar Association in the city Town Hall auditorium.
The chief justice also urged the lawyers to be imbued with the spirit of independence and non-communal ideology to make their marks in taking ahead country.
He also called for following the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to build a non-communal Bangladesh.
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury today said that if the country agricultural irrigation pumps are converted to renewable energy, it could save 5,000 megawatts of electricity.
The minister made the remarks at 2nd Dhaka Renewable Energy Financing Talk organized by Change Initiative at the Bangabandhu Military Museum in the capital today, a press release said.
Aiming to combat climate change and promote sustainable development, the government is committed to increasing the production and use of renewable energy, he said.
As part of implementing a green, clean, and climate-resilient economy, the government is working to reduce reliance on coal for electricity production and encourage the use of renewable energy, he added.
Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud has urged the United Nations organizations and other partners to take coordinated action for the repatriation of about 1.3 million Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh on humanitarian grounds to their homeland Myanmar.
He also sought effective step to resolve the ongoing conflict in the Rakhine state and for the betterment of the Rohingya population.
The Foreign Minister, ,who is now in the United States on a three-day official visit,, made the call during his four separate meetings with the President of the General Assembly, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the heads of six United Nations development organizations at the United Nations headquarters on Friday (afternoon local time) in New York.