Industrial accidents are common in Bangladesh. Experts blame poor safety standards and lack of enforcement of norms and regulations. Garments factories, which account for the country’s most exports and employ over 4 million workers, often see deadly fire incidents.
EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy engine, has awarded a $120,000 cash prize plus a $364,000 investment in added value services to support the expansion of SOLshare’s pioneering peer-to-peer solar trading platform
Chargé d’Affaires at US Embassy in Dhaka JoAnne Wagner has said that his country is interested in the development plans for the Chittagong Port due to its role as gatekeeper for Bangladesh’s export economy
After 49 years of the Liberation War, the Bangladesh government has approved a primary list of 1,222 martyred intellectuals who made sacrifices for the nation in 1971, a minister announced
The government has announced that the flights of airlines bringing passengers from abroad without COVID-negative certificates will be suspended for up to four weeks
Another 250kg bomb was found buried at the construction site of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport's 3rd terminal in the capital today
With the slogan "Jatir Pitar Samman, Rakhbo Mora Omlan" (We will uphold the dignity of the Father of the Nation), officials of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadre services staged nationwide protest rallies against the vandalism of an under-construction sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia
The country will receive the first consignment of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in January, Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday said
Judges, government officials and businesspersons were among the people who demonstrated yesterday against the attack on a sculpture of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on global leaders to step up efforts to meet the goals set under the Paris Agreement with a stark reminder of the threat of climate change
The garment sector is on way to receive a second round of stimulus, with government plans reasoning that it has been severely affected by the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic
COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh is under control as the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is sincerely dealing with the pandemic, Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque has said
The number of patients with severe COVID-19 infections is apparently on the rise, as record shows that the occupancy rate of ICU beds at the dedicated hospitals has gone up by 14 percentage points from 45 percent in the last two months
Bangladesh Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus’ petition on putting people ahead of pharma patents has received nearly one million signatures
Historian Yuval Noah Harari, of bestsellers "Sapiens" (2011) and "Homo Deus" (2016) fame, talks about the importance of stories in human history which have the power, he says, to transform the fortune of peoples -- turning groups to tribes, to communities, to nations and, to civilizations and make them achieve wonders
Facebook has taken action against two separate groups of hackers -- an unnamed group based in Bangladesh and APT32 in Vietnam, the social media giant said in a statement
