Bangladesh News

The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday unveiled an ambitious plan to find 2,000 entrepreneurs from across the country to support them within the next five months.

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Fashion victims: Women protesters shout slogans calling for better working conditions for garment workers during a May Day rally on May 1 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Sources told Daily Times on Friday that Bangladesh has started following Pakistani visa policy for Bengalis as Pakistani authorities don't issue visas to Bangladeshi citizens without clearance from the Interior Ministry.

In a major policy change, Bangladesh will allow India ferry foodgrains for the mountainous northeastern states via its territory, a Tripura minister said here.

A man who lost a leg in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake makes his way home amidst the ruins in Sichuan province, China, on April 16, 2009.

As Muhammad Yunus, the Grameen Bank pioneer, said on Wednesday, Bangladesh's worst-ever industrial disaster was both predictable and man-made. The April 24 collapse of the eight-storey Rana Plaza in Dhaka, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring 2,500, was as much the product of greed as the Saradha money-collecting scheme, which is likely to ... (more)

SAVAR: Relatives said Friday they were still waiting for news of their missing loved ones, as many gathered to mark one month since Bangladesh's worst industrial tragedy.

Dhaka, May 24: Bangladesh educationist Azad Chowdhury called for the banning of the country's biggest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and blamed the organisation for misusing Islam and committing the wartime atrocities during the 1971 liberation war.

Myanmar army trucks transport mostly Buddhist, ethnic Rakhine people back to their original villages as Internally displaced Rohingya people watch in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, May 17.

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.