Bangladesh 's supreme court has sentenced an Islamist leader to death for war crimes, overturning a life sentence imposed by a tribunal and triggering outrage from his lawyers and protests from his supporters.A war crimes tribunal in February found Abdul Quader Mollah, the assistant secretary general of the outlawed Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of murder, rape [...]

Shamsur Rahman struck an unbeaten 105 and ensured that Mohammedan's run-rate never dropped off, despite the loss of wickets, as they chased a tricky target of 283 in 50 overs. There was a little flutter for Shamsur, who stood at the non-striker's end, during the final over. Mohammedan needed five runs [...]

Johannesburg – Mignon du Preez scored her maiden ODI century to propel the Proteas women to a 96-run victory over Bangladesh at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on … [Read More]

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POLICE have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse thousands of garment workers who blocked streets outside Bangladesh's capital to demand factory owners raise their minimum … [Read More]

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50,000 garment workers demanding higher pay flooded the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh Saturday, and 20,000 shut down dozens of factories by walking off the job, in the largest demonstrations to ever sweep the notoriously dangerous and low-wage Bangladesh garment industry. The protests continued on Sunday, with workers and their supporters blocking traffic, marching along [...]

Tens of thousands of garment workers have downed tools and taken to the streets to urge the government for an increase in the minimum salary. 4 million employees work in the country's $20-billion garment export industry - 60 percent goes to Europe - and earn about $38 a month. They [...]

BANGLADESH - Children don't die in big numbers in Bangladesh now as they did 22 years ago. The country is preventing over 1,100 child deaths a day, thanks to a successful reduction in child mortality by 72 per cent in last two decades. Back in 1990, as many as 1,454 children used to [...]

The reaction followed a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva on Friday, where Bangladesh accepted 164 of a total 196 recommendations made by the body.Among the measures rejected was a recommendation to abolish Section 377 of the national penal code which criminalises consensual same-sex [...]

Bengal . "We have proposed to set up border haats in India-Bangladesh border, where famous products, mostly agricultural products will be sold at these border haats," Additional Director General BSF B D Sharma said. Sharma said the BSF have placed the proposal before the state government which is looking into the proposal. According to Sharma, [...]

About 50,000 garment industry workers held their largest protest so far in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to demand an increase of more than 1-1/2 times in the minimum wage, police and labor officials said on Saturday. "Our backs are against the wall, so we don't have any alternative unless we raise our voice strongly," [...]