Bangladesh News

By Sahana Ghos, Dhaka, May 23 : Nature lovers in Bangladesh can tune in to 89.6 FM for their daily dose of green awakening, courtesy a 45-minute programme which aims at bridging the gap between environmentalists and laymen by keeping them abreast of burning topics related to the sector.

Amid an international outcry and promises by retailers to improve worker safety, Bangladesh is struggling to conduct even a crude assessment of the country's garment factories.

Unlike PR opposition figures, who are getting arrested for questioning the conduct of the 5/5 election on behalf of the majority of the electorate, UMNO bloggers are still enjoying freedom of speech.

Cyclone Mahasen has damaged crops worth 2.75 Bangladeshi taka , hurting hundreds of farmers in the southern districts.

A plan to erect a coal-fired power plant in Bangladesh next to the Sundarbans , the largest mangrove forest in the world which straddles Bangladesh and India, is drawing fire from activists in the country who say it would destroy the world heritage site.

Nababarsha, the first day of the Bangla Shaal, is a momentous occasion in the life of each and every Bangladeshi.

When the cracks in the building appeared early Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s, a feared political operative who a neighbor says dropped out of school in seventh grade, quickly arrived at the scene in this crowded industrial suburb of Bangladesh's capital.

Rendering of Shobuj Pata low-rise condo project, Dhaka, Bangladesh by Toronto-based JCI Architects.

A Bangladeshi woman holds up a portrait of her missing relative after the collapse of Rana Plaza, revealing the dark side of the Bangladesh garment industry's success.

A resident of East Bahuka village in Bangladesh's Sirajganj district shows where land he used to own was lost to growing erosion along the Jamnua River.

Bangladesh farmers battle water woes By Naimul Haq CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Bangladesh - Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometers to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.

SAVAR, Bangladesh-When rescuers freed Marium Begum from the tangle of steel and concrete in which she had been trapped for 36 hours after last month's Bangladeshi garment factory collapse, she thought the worst was over.

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage... Two hundred American former prisoners of war who were taken captive during the Vietnam War are arriving in Southern ... (more)

Rice imports in Bangladesh hit the lowest in 16 years, thanks to increased domestic production that helped the country become nearly self-sufficient. Bangladesh imported only 27,700 tonnes of rice since the beginning of fiscal 2012-13, down 94 per cent from 515,000 tonnes in the same period a year earlier, according to the food ministry.

Bangladesh is on the boil but that is not preventing experimental art forms like installation and performance art from growing from strength to strength, feels Palash Bhattacharjee, the graphic-turned-performance artist from Chittagong, who introduced the new art practices of his own and some 10 others at Studio21 on Saturday.

By M.Saraswathi NEW DELHI, May 23 -- Bangladesh businesses should take the opportunity offered by Showcase-Malaysia 2013 to broaden trade ties with Malaysia, says Malaysian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Norlin Othman.

Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she'd be home for good.

A committee investigating a deadly collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the panel's chief said on Tuesday.

People carry their belongings while moving to a shelter as Cyclone Mahasen approaches, in Cox's Bazar May 15, 2013.REUTERS/Stringer GENEVA - The "everyday" disasters that do most harm to poor people are going largely unnoticed, depriving many of aid that could stop them falling into a downward spiral, government officials and development experts ... (more)

Survivors who suffered amputations while being rescued receive medical treatment at the Enam Medical College.