Bangladesh News

Thousands of people in several coastal districts have no roof over their heads as their Mahasen nightmare continues.

Hundreds people lost their lives when an eight-story building outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed on 24 April, 2013, trapping thousands of mostly garment workers inside.

Ranjana Akhter, 35, holds a picture of her missing daughter Sheuli, 20, while standing opposite the ruins of Rana Plaza where Sheuli worked.

When the nine-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, 1127 people were killed.

SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon. I'm very happy to welcome Foreign Minister Dipu Moni from Bangladesh.

When NASA's TRMM satellite passed over Cyclone Mahasen on May 15 at 2133 UTC , the TRMM Microwave imager showed the heaviest rainfall was occurring in a band... NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen's rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16.

Agartala, May 16 : A high-level India-Bangladesh meeting on setting up of 'Border Haats' along the frontier in Tripura has been postponed due to cyclonic storm 'Mahasen', a state minister said here Thursday.

Kampong Speu: A ceiling collapse at a Cambodian shoe factory killed two workers yesterday, spurring a government vow to inspect all garment plants amid heightened safety fears after last month's disaster in Bangladesh.

Hundreds of garment factories in a Bangladesh manufacturing hub reopened Friday, days after they were closed down due to unrest sparked by the country's worst industrial tragedy, employers said.

Cyclone Mahasan weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely, meteorological officials said.

A Bangladeshi rescuer stands amid the rubble of a garment factory building that collapsed on April 24 as they continue searching for bodies in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 12, 2013.

A cyclone crossed into Bangladesh Thursday, forcing the evacuation of roughly one million people and causing dozens of casualties before weakening into a tropical storm over land.

Burma's economy is in danger of imitating its floundering western neighbor Bangladesh rather than its more dynamic eastern neighbor Thailand.

The powerful cyclonic storm Mahasen finally hit Bangaldesh's Patuakhali district on Thursday morning, creating havoc with heavy showers and strong winds lashing at a speed of 100 kmph.

The government of Bangladesh, which allows minority Rohingya Muslims to die slowly as they battle and attempt to flee Genocide in Burma , opened fire on unarmed Muslim protestors in Dhaka killing around 2,500, according to local witnesses.

While the exact number of dead is unknown, estimates range from several dozens, to hundreds, possibly more than a thousand.

Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment industry.

But the way Reshma describes her 17 harrowing days -- buried underground in pitch-black darkness as the voices around her faded away, as sweltering days bled into humid nights, as she questioned whether she was in this world or the next -- it's an apt one.

Bangladeshi villagers gather at a cyclone shelter after a cyclone hit the coast in Cox's Bazar April 18, 2009.

The Bangladeshi authorities have raised the danger level to seven out of 10 for low-lying areas around Chittagong and the coastal district of Cox's Bazaar.