The Latest Breaking News from Bangladesh

It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the eight-storey building on April 24 2013, which housed five factories making clothes for western high street brands like Accessorize,…

Countries across the world have declared dates for Eid but many of them fall on different days

But you know what’s funny? All my life, I have been trained to be an engineer. Look at me now, I am a pickle seller!

Bangladesh is being forced to cut power to millions of people as a relentless heatwave leads to a surge in demand for power and thereby creates massive electricity supply shortfalls during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Foiling a smuggling bid, the Border Security Force (BSF) seized gold biscuits worth Rs 36 lakh smuggled from Bangladesh to India in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Read further on Dynamite News:

Only a tiny fraction of primary care physicians provide abortions. Dr Joan Fleischman wants to offset the rightwing war on reproductive rights by training many more of them

More countries are realising that punishing individuals doesn’t prevent them from acting on suicidal thoughts but simply puts them in greater distress.

Bangladesh inherited its suicide laws from the colonial era. A more modern approach is needed to deter the behaviour.

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Fespaco. There’s a celebration of the Bengali New Year, as well as the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick and “Music from Vincent” with Vincent Pora. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on…

A huge fire swept through a shopping complex containing nearly 1,500 shops in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, officials said on Saturday as firefighters and soldiers struggled to put out the blaze with smoke hampering rescue efforts.

Fast fashion is that ever-changing need to have the latest beautiful thing at a bargain price — that club-ready piece of clothing, that status symbol shoe or that must-have top you just found at the mall.