Bangladesh

Bangladesh has shut thousands of schools as it struggles through its lengthiest heat wave in half a century, with widespread power cuts only compounding locals’ misery. Temperatures in the South Asian nation’s capital of Dhaka have…

Bangladeshi women pilgrims have lauded Hajj operations in Saudi Arabia, describing their experience so far as smooth while thanking authorities in the Kingdom for treating them with care and kindness. Bangladesh is sending about 125,000…

Power was being restored across Bangladesh after the worst blackouts since 2014 cut supply to half the country, disrupting hospitals to road traffic and internet networks. Four of Bangladesh's eight administrative divisions, home to about…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held bilateral talks in New Delhi to review and further strengthen the all-encompassing India-Bangladesh partnership. Seven Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),…

Bangladesh is cracking down on money changers as a shortage of dollars pushed the taka to a record low and forces trade to the so-called kerb market. The central bank has suspended the licenses of five money changers and served notice on…

Drowning has become the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five in Bangladesh as more than 14,000 children in the South Asian country die due to drowning each year. In a joint press statement issued on the World…

With seven more people dying in the last 24 hours, the death toll in Bangladesh’s floods has risen to 102, authorities said on Sunday. According to a daily flood report by the health directorate, the casualties were reported in 11 of 28…

Four million people, including 1.6 million children, stranded by flash floods in northeastern Bangladesh are in urgent need of help, said the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) here Monday (June 20). In a statement, UNICEF said it…

Heavy monsoon rains in India and Bangladesh have flooded an airport and knocked down cellphone towers, bridges and power lines, cutting off communications for millions of people and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands. At…

When the unseasonably heavy rains flooded the fields, and then the equally unseasonable heat shriveled the seeds, it did not only slash Ranjit Singh's wheat harvest by nearly half. It put him, and nearly all the other households in his…