The Latest Breaking News from Bangladesh

Even stories on cost of living leave journalists facing assault, threats and arrest under Digital Security Act

A Saudi-flagged ship arrived Saturday at the King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah, carrying the largest number of evacuees since evacuations from Sudan kicked off. The Saudi-flagged ship “Amana” carried 20 Saudi citizens, as well as 1,866 nationals of brotherly and friendly countries from different nationalities, including: Thailand, Australia, Rwanda,…

A decade after Bangladesh’s worst garment-industry disaster, injury and ill health plagues those that escaped

The northeast region comprising India's eight northeastern states -- Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim -- is undergoing dramatic change.

Nilufa Yasmin was trapped beneath the rubble for three days at the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in an ordeal which is too traumatising to recall

Bangladesh will work with all the stakeholders for peacekeeping, peace building and counter-terrorism initiatives in the Indo-Pacific region, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said

Company says its own code of conduct goes further than the global accord prompted by the Rana Plaza disaster 10 years ago

The garment factory that collapsed worked with the likes of Primark, Benetton, and Bonmarche.

The nine-storey building collapsed in 2013, killing 1,134 people, in one of the deadliest industrial disasters ever.

The first Army formation to reach Dhaka, formerly Dacca, during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War celebrated 60 years of service to the nation on April 24. 

The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh a decade ago, in which more than a thousand people died, led to a revolutionary French law on duty of care. How did it come about and is it effective in protecting workers' rights and the environment?