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Dhaka, Bangladesh—Millions of students returned to their reopened schools across Bangladesh Sunday despite a lingering heatwave that prompted a nationwide classroom shutdown order last...
Dhaka, Bangladesh—Classes are cancelled across Bangladesh due to searing heat, but high school student Mohua Akter Nur found the soaring temperatures at home left...
Mymensingh, Bangladesh - Kicked out of other prayer services, members of Bangladesh's transgender hijra community have been welcomed at a new mosque in the Muslim-majority...
Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won re-election for a fifth term Sunday, officials said, following a boycott led by an opposition...
Char Shildaha, Bangladesh – An award-winning architect in Bangladesh, one of the nations most at risk from flooding driven by climate change, has developed...
DHAKA, Bangladesh—Bangladesh has launched a sweeping and violent crackdown on opposition parties to “eliminate competition” ahead of general elections, including arresting almost 10,000 activists,...
COX’S Bazar, Bangladesh – At least two more boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees set sail from Bangladesh this week, a monitoring group said,...
Garment workers and activists protest in Dhaka after Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rejected any further pay hikes for protesting garment workers demanding a...
DHAKA—Bangladeshi garment manufacturers on Saturday shuttered 150 factories “indefinitely”, as police issued blanket charges for 11,000 workers in connection with violent protests demanding a...
Gazipur, Bangladesh – Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Thursday, officials and witnesses said, as violence broke out at a protest by...
DHAKA—Hundreds of garment factories in Bangladesh have shuttered as thousands of workers staged violent protests to demand a near-tripling of their wages, police said...
