A long-standing dispute over pension and other benefits has prompted Bangladesh’s railway staff to call an indefinite strike.

Trains have been canceled across Bangladesh as railway workers went on strike for higher pensions and other benefits ...

This is the second meeting between Soros and Yunus in three months after the duo met in New York last year in October - weeks ...

A women’s football match was cancelled in Bangladesh yesterday after protests by Islamist hardliners forced organisers to call off the fixture, the second ...

Over the years, there have been regular high-level bilateral talks and visits between the two countries. Ministers of both ...

Students from religious school vandalise venue set to host women’s match, a day after similar incident in another city.

Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has topped the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 257 at 9:31am today (25 January). The air was classified as 'very ...

Every day, like clockwork, some group decides to occupy a stretch of the city's already overburdened roads to demand justice, compensation, reforms, or, in some cases, just attention. While their ...

A court in Bangladesh has again denied bail to an outspoken ... did not appear at the hearing at the court in the southeastern city of Chattogram, where Metropolitan Sessions Judge Saiful Islam ...

Once politicised to serve centralised interests, Bangladesh's local government system now lies in disarray. The interim government’s reform agenda offers hope, but is it enough to revive grassroots ...

Hospitals in Kolkata, the nearest city to Bangladesh and culturally similar, are the worst affected. At Peerless Hospital, a 500-bed multi-speciality hospital in Kolkata, daily outpatient visits ...