The Padma Bridge project authorities have asked all the people involved in the construction of Bangladesh’s largest infrastructure project not to share its photos, videos or information on social media
Bangladesh’s container depot fire; norms violated in cargo handling at Chittagong port
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.
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Sales of savings certificates in Bangladesh touch 144.28 bn Tk amid corona
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Expert advice to beat back COVID-19 goes ‘unheeded’ in Bangladesh
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Khaleda Zia, son wanted to kill me: PM Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Friday that BNP leader Khaleda Zia and elder son Tareq Rahman wanted to kill her in the 2004 grenade attack in Dhaka
Bangladesh records 39 new virus deaths, cases top 290,000
Bangladesh has reported 2,401 fresh cases of COVID-19 over a 24-hour period, taking the tally of infections to 290,360
Bangladesh getting connected with Vietnam through sea route
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Bangladesh PM pitches for investment in industrialisation, setting up of SEZs
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Bangladesh blogger murder: Chargesheet filed against 9 militants
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Investigate US-Ziaur Rahman ‘connection’ behind Bangabandhu killing: US journalist
American journalist Lawrence Lifschultz has said the “connection” between Ziaur Rahman and the United States behind the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be investigated
Russia ships first reactor vessel, steam generator for Bangladesh nuclear power plant
Russia’s AEM-Technology has shipped the first key elements of Bangladesh’s Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant
