DHAKA, BangladeshDHAKA, Bangladesh — Dozens of protesters were arrested and injured in Bangladesh on Monday, reports said, as an Islamic hard-line group enforced a nationwide general strike demanding ...

Nestled in Bangladesh’s Bay of Bengal, the industrial port city Mongla is steadily preparing itself for climate change. The mayor has built flood defences against rising tides, planted several ...

With more than 16 million residents, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is not only one of the world’s largest cities, it’s also the fastest growing. Half a million new migrants arrive each year. The U ...

Bangladesh needs a vibrant, livable and economically diverse Dhaka City to reach middle-income status. Peri-urban areas of Dhaka require better infrastructure and services to transform into globally ...

Dhaka and Bangladesh's other densely populated cities stand exposed to alarming seismic hazards—an uncomfortable truth ...

NEW DELHI — Wide swathes of the coasts of India and Bangladesh were flooded and millions of people remained without power Thursday, after the most powerful cyclone to hit the region in more than ...

NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As pale fumes billowed from a factory in the Bandar neighbourhood of Narayanganj, clouding the afternoon sky, tea-stall owner Riad, 21, ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hit Bangladesh at 10:38am (04:38 GMT), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The shaking ...

A deadly air force training jet crash in Bangladesh has drawn calls for accountability, and to relocate bases and training from densely populated areas. Bangladesh observed a day of mourning on ...

Experts have long been warning that Bangladesh could suffer a major earthquake anytime soon as it sits on the collision zone ...