Over 100 killed in Bangladesh’s worst-ever factory fire
A fire has swept through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital killing over 100 people in the country’s worst-ever factory blaze.
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Golden fibre brings hope to Bangladesh farmers
Jute — a fibre derived from reed-like plants — is seeing a broad international renaissance for use in shopping bags to replace polythene.
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Bangladesh fire death toll over 100
More than 100 people were killed in a fire that razed a Dhaka neighbourhood, and rescue workers scrambled to pull bodies out of the debris on Friday.
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Special tribunals to try Bangladesh mutineers
Tribunals will try paramilitary mutineers who killed at least 80 people, mostly army officers, as more than 70 others remain missing on Sunday.
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Bangladesh army reaffirms support for government
Bangladesh’s powerful army has reaffirmed its support for the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after a mutiny by paramilitary troops.
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Fresh gunfire in Dhaka as troop mutinies spread
Fresh gunfire erupted at a paramilitary camp in the Bangladesh capital on Thursday as troops took to streets in towns across the country.
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Bangladesh troop mutinies spread
Mutinies by members of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles have broken out in various towns around the country, police and witnesses said on Thursday.
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Hasina takes massive majority in Bangladesh
An alliance under Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina won a massive parliamentary majority in the country’s first polls in seven years.
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Bangladesh candidate rhetoric heats up as poll nears
Candidates in Monday’s Bangladesh election to restore democracy after two years of emergency rule have traded heated charges of corruption.
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Bangladesh cyclone relief operation in full gear
A week after a cyclone killed nearly 3 500 people on the Bangladesh coast, relief workers said on Wednesday they had been able to get food, medicine and other provisions to almost all those affected. A relief operation by civil authorities and the army, navy and airforce was at full force after roads blocked by fallen trees has been cleared.
