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.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday accused the then Army chief (and later President) Ziaur Rahman and his wife Khaleda Zia of resorting to the "politics of killing Bangabandhu", saying that he gave all sorts of support to the murderers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen on Sunday sought assistance from diplomats of several countries, including India, to trace and bring back the fugitive killers of Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 45th death anniversary
The US Department of State has issued a Level-4 travel advisory for Bangladesh, warning US citizens against travelling to the country amid restrictions due to the COVID-19 outbreak
The government has said Biman Bangladesh Airlines is issuing tickets first to the travellers who had booked flights before the suspension of services over the pandemic
Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid said on Saturday that following the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then military officer Ziaur Rahman had proposed to him to become a minister and even issued a threat along with it
In a confession, before he was hanged to death in April for the killing off of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founder of Bangladesh, dismissed military officer Abdul Majed said that former Bangladesh Army chief Ziaur Rahman was behind the 1975 assassination
Vietnam has presented Bangladesh with medical supplies worth $30,000 to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic
Police arrested five people, including Abdullah Al Masud, superintendent of Jashore juvenile correction centre, in connection with the incident of torturing three boys of the centre to death
Bangladesh is mourning Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of the nation who was assassinated along with most of his family members in one of the worst political massacres in world history 45 years ago
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Friday that she will continue to work for the welfare of the nation by sacrificing everything she can in order to fulfil the dream of Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
At least 12,746 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Italy have applied for regularisation under an Italian government-declared amnesty programme which is scheduled to end today
Bangladesh is now on the eighth position of the countries' list with most active COVID-19 cases as the health directorate reported 2,617 new cases yesterday
The regional commander of Neo-Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB) Sheikh Sultan Mohammad Naimuzzaman, on the first day of his seven day police remand confessed that the banned militant outfit planned a bomb blast at an elite shopping mall in Gulshan on July 31, a day before Eid-ul-Azha, the officials told IANS
While he was the managing director of Reliance Finance Ltd, a non-bank financial institution, Proshanta Kumar Halder made his relatives directors of three other leasing companies to swindle money
Bangladesh might be one of only two ASEAN and South Asian economies to register positive growth in 2020 despite a global recession that is shaping up to be historic in scale, according to Standard Chartered Bank's research team
