The freelance contracting model or gig work is attractive for companies because it allows them to outsource risk to those who toil. Many workers also enjoy the flexibility allowed.

Planning minister MA Mannan today said the government will ensure safe water, hygiene and sanitation for all the countrymen to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Austria is stepping up security at churches in case of copycat attacks after an Islamist gunman killed four people in a rampage earlier this month in which he may have intended to target houses of worship, the interior minister has said.

Sounding a note of warning against fake news portals, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said legal action will soon be taken against all fake online news portals.

More than 20 million people across large swathes of England will be forced to live under the toughest category of Covid-19 restrictions when a national lockdown ends on December 2, while London has been placed in the “high alert” second-toughest tier.

A case was filed in connection with the rape of a sixteen-year-old girl in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila last night.

One person was arrested in connection with the rape of a class five student of a madrasa in Bagerhat’s Mollahat last night.

Freelancers in Bangladesh are finally getting a state-endorsed electronic/virtual identity card.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has called for full implementation of the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) among the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries.

Two teachers of a madrasa in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila have confessed to sexually abusing two students in a case filed in this connection.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic that has caused a slowdown of economies, the UK has announced a temporary reduction in overseas development aid from 0.7 percent of its gross national income to 0.5 percent.

France is leading a push for European Union sanctions on Turkey next month to follow through on a threat made by the bloc in October, but has yet to win support from EU governments beyond Greece and Cyprus, officials and diplomats said.

Bangladesh Computer Council’s e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) said that they did not have any specific credible intelligence regarding any imminent attack in the financial infrastructure of Bangladesh. Sources in the ICT Division informed that no such imminent threat was raised to CIRT in the last few days that might be deemed out of the ordinary.

Thai officials today said they approved the transfer back to Tehran of three Iranians who were involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot, as Iran released a 33-year-old Australian academic who was imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges.

Foreign ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries are set to meet together here tomorrow while the Rohingya genocide case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is expected to come up among top agendas.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Canada will have to wait for a vaccine because the very first ones that roll off assembly lines are likely to be given to citizens of the country they are made in.

Retired public officials would not require government permission to take up jobs at other organisations, change profession or go abroad.

The Ethiopian military will begin the "final phase" of an offensive in the rebellious northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday, hours after an ultimatum for Tigray forces to surrender expired.

Three suspected members of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam were arrested in Dhaka last night.

Thirty-seven people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).