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Police have detained six suspected militants, including three Myanmar nationals, at a hotel in Cox's Bazar, reports bdnews24.com. Police raided the hotel - Jamuna Guest House - around 7:30pm on Sunday following a tip-off that militants were staying there, Cox's Bazar Additional Superintendent of Police Md Ashfarujul Haque Tutul said. The six have been identified as Nurul Amin, Mohammad Yasin, and Abdul Aziz from Rohingya refugee camp at Kutupalong, and Noor Hossain, Mohammad Ilias, and Dil Mohammad. The additional SP said Aziz works in a madrasah outside the camp. He added that details about them would be revealed at a media conference on Monday after interrogating them.....

Published at: 2017-03-20 00:00:05

Border Security Force (BSF) returned a Bangladeshi national in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira district after a flag meeting with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Sunday, reports UNB. A BSF team from Tarali camp detained Hussain Gayen, 20, son of Mojibur Gayen of Abad Chandipur village in Shyamnagar upazila, from Kakdanga border point on Saturday, said Akhteruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Kolaroa Police station. Later, BSF sent a letter to BGB and returned the youth in the afternoon after the meeting.....

Published at: 2017-03-20 00:00:04

SURAJKUND (Haryana), Mar 18 (PTI): Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh today made an assurance that farmers' income will double by 2022 while terming agriculture as a sunrise sector of the 21st century with ample growth potential. Allaying fears that prospects of agriculture are bleak, the minister maintained that on the contrary, farmers have a bright future. "Our Prime Minister has already spelt out the vision of doubling farmers' income by 2022 and we will convert that vision into reality," Singh said while addressing a summit on agriculture organised by the Haryana government here. The minister also spoke of the challenges faced by farmers with regard to high input costs and a fair price for their produce. Dispelling the notion that agriculture has no potential and Indian farmers have no future, Singh said: "People like me and many more believe that neither the potential for growth in agriculture has ended nor the future of farmers is bleak." He corroborated his stand by saying a lot of people around the world have started believing that farming is the only sunrise sector of the country in the 21st century, thanks to the way technology is deployed to increase output. Devendra Fadnavis makes a case to bring back debt-ridden farmers into credit system Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said he had positive discussions with the Centre over formulating a scheme to bring back farmers defaulting on loans, into the institutional credit system in such a way that investment in agriculture is not affected. Making a statement in the Legislative Assembly, Fadnavis said he had assured Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley and Agriculture minister Radhamohan Singh that the state was willing to contribute its share in this scheme to help farmers. Fadnavis said out of the 1.36 crore farmers, 31 lakh had loan dues worth Rs 30,500 crore. "These farmers are not eligible for fresh loans. There is a need to bring them back into the institutional credit system. But we have to give an incentive to over one crore farmers who pay their loans on time. Systems need to be created as such decisions cannot be taken overnight.....

Published at: 2017-03-19 00:00:05

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said another attack suspect died after being arrested in Dhaka Ashkona where a militant was killed after his suicide vest went off during an attack on the camp of the elite police force. The arrested person, identified as Abu Hanif Mridha, 32, died of ‘cardiac arrest’, a forensic doctor said on Saturday after post-mortem examination. RAB spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan has said Hanif was detained in Ashkona around 4:15pm on Friday, hours after the attack on the barracks of the elite force at its new headquarters being constructed in the area near the airport. "He (Hanif) fell ill immediately after the arrest," said Khan. RAB took the suspect to Kurmitola General Hospital where he died at around 5:45pm, according to Khan. The body was kept at the hospital overnight and sent to Dhaka Medical College mortuary on Saturday afternoon after around 22 hours of his death. A post-mortem examination was conducted later. "Initially we've come to know that he died of cardiac arrest. But we’ve collected sample for viscera test," said the hospital's Forensics Department head Professor Sohel Mahmud, according to bdnews24.com.  ....

Published at: 2017-03-19 00:00:05

ABU DHABI, Mar 18: A weekly day off, 30 days of annual paid leave, the right to retain personal documents including passport, ID card and work permit, besides daily rest of at least 12 hours - including at least eight consecutive hours - are among rights that the UAE plans to assure domestic workers, reports gulfnews.com. In a bid to ensure decent working and living conditions for domestic workers, who outnumber family members in nearly a quarter of Emirati families, changes outlined in a new draft law that seeks to amend a law passed by the Federal National Council in 2012, seeks to regulate the domestic worker industry in line with international standards. The new proposals align the UAE's laws with the International Labour Organisation's Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. The rules, which have been approved by the UAE Cabinet, must now be passed by the Federal National Council and signed into law by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. According to a copy of the draft law obtained by Gulf News, domestic workers must be extended rights to equality and non-discrimination based on race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion or national or social sect. The rules also extend safeguards to domestic workers against physical and verbal sexual abuse, human trafficking and forced labour in keeping with UAE's laws and international conventions ratified by the country. There are around 750,000 domestic workers in the UAE, making up nearly 20 per cent of the expatriate workforce, according to official statistics. As many as 65 per cent of them are based in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. They outnumber family members in 22 per cent of Emirati families. The law promotes decent work conditions for domestic workers, including social protection and access to specialised tribunals at the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation and courts. It sets 18 years as a minimum age for a domestic worker, which is consistent with international rules on elimination of child labour. Placement agencies have to ensure that domestic workers are informed of terms and conditions of their employment such as the nature of work, the workplace, the remuneration and the period of daily and weekly rest as set out by the executive regulations before they have crossed their national borders. The new draft law says: "A model contract accredited by the Ministry of Human Resources will be signed by the employer and the employment agency, setting out job description and qualifications of the worker as well as obligations of the employer. This contract will also provide for financial obligations towards the worker travelling to the UAE, fees of the agent and the period required to bring in the employee." If the agent fails to honour the obligations set out in the contract, the employer shall have the right to decide against offering the job to the worker. The agent will then bear the cost of sending the worker to his/her home country. The employer also has the right to claim compensation for any inconvenience caused by the agent's failure to meet the contract's terms. The employer has to sign a model contract accredited by the Ministry of Human Resources with the domestic worker, with copies being delivered to the worker, the employer, the placement agency and the Ministry of Human Resources. Arabic shall be the language of the contract. Where a foreign language is used in addition to Arabic, the Arabic version shall be regarded as authoritative.  "The contract, which can extend to no more than two years and is renewable for similar periods, shall more particularly specify the date of its conclusion, the date on which work is to begin, type of the work and workplace, duration of the contract, the remuneration and how it is paid, leaves, probation period and rest times, as well as any other terms required by the nature of the work. The law sets six months from the date of ending the contract as the time limit for different lawsuits within which an aggrieved person can approach the court for redress or justice," it further adds. A domestic worker, the draft law states, may be engaged on probation for three months, which can be extended to six months, during which his or her service may be terminated by the employer with the placement agency bearing the cost of sending the worker home if necessary. The placement agent has to repay all fees if the contract is revoked of the worker's own will, because of the worker or because agreed terms of the employment contract are not honoured. But a worker shall not be put on probation more than once in the service of any employer, unless the two parties agree to engage the worker in a different job. To address abusive practices in respect of payment of wages, the law lays down a number of principles with regard to the protection of remuneration. Remuneration, which has to be communicated to the worker and agreed by him or her before travelling to the UAE, has to be paid no later than the 10th of the following month and a receipt is signed upon every payment. The Ministry of Human Resources may set any more suitable wage protection system. No amount of money may be deducted from a worker's salary or end-of-service gratuity except for a debt payable in execution of a court ruling or repair of any damage caused by the worker, provided that the deduction shall not exceed a quarter of the worker's salary. If a dispute arises, it has to be settled by the special tribunals at the Ministry of Human resources or be referred to the court.....

Published at: 2017-03-19 00:00:05