There has been too much bloodshed in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and it needs to stop, Adviser for Jute and Textile and Shipping ministries Brigadier General (retd) Sakhawat Hossain has said. "Many ...

Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and Begum Sufia Kamal (1911-1999), two icons in Bangla literature and culture, were not kins but kindred spirits. The zine-making workshop was divided ...

The shift in stance was noted when a portrait of one of the first feminists in undivided India, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, was defaced with ink in December last year. Social media videos purportedly ...

It became the title of Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal's book, Spider Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain—a tribute ... fiction can anticipate real-life change.

Factory owners have been warned of legal action if workers’ wages and allowances are not paid by Thursday, according to Brigadier General (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain, Adviser to the Ministry of ...

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in 1880 in Rangpur (now in Bangladesh) to a well off but orthodox Bengali Muslim family. The societal norms of the era allowed girls to have religious education ...

Labour and Employment Adviser Brigadier General (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain on Saturday laid emphasis on taking effective measures to protect the rights of workers and increase transparency. "We need ...

Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman does not tell anything without apprehending it clearly, said Labour and Employment Adviser Brig Gen (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain. Responding to a question ...

Brigadier General (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain, adviser to the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Labour and Employment, announced that mobile courts on rivers would be increased to enhance ...

Brigadier General (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain, adviser to the Interim Government’s Ministry of Shipping, Labor, and Employment, has urged those hiding deep in the hilly districts and engaging in ...

Shipping Adviser Brig Gen (Retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hossain said the government is considering setting up a land port at Ghumdum in Teknaf, keeping in mind the neighbouring Rakhine State of Myanmar.

In celebration of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's "Sultana's Dream" being recognised as a Unesco "Memory of the World," five Bangladeshi women mountaineers embarked on a special Himalayan expedition ...