Country Profile: Bangladesh

Police in Bangladesh say they have launched a massive hunt for suspected Islamist militants, after a huge arms cache was found in the capital, Dhaka.

At least 100 people have been injured in protests about pay in Bangladesh's garment factories. Police fired teargas and rubber bullets and used batons to disperse workers as they blocked two high...

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 100 people were injured when garment workers attacked factories and vehicles in Bangladesh on Saturday in a second day of protests to demand higher wages, police and witness...

Bangladesh's Labour Minister urged millions of garment workers on Thursday to accept a new 80 per cent wage hike, which looks set to end months of violent protests over pay and conditions.The governme...

DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 100 people were injured when garment workers attacked factories and vehicles in Bangladesh on Saturday in a second day of protests to demand higher wages, police and witness...

Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets in a bid to subdue garment workers who rioted for a second day in protest against low pay as unrest spread to areas outside Dhaka, police said. Workers fought ...

At least 100 people were injured when garment workers attacked factories and vehicles in Bangladesh on Saturday in a second day of protests to demand higher wages, police and witnesses said. Police fi...

DHAKA: Violent protests rocked the Bangladesh capital Dhaka as thousands of garment workers took to the streets on Friday, with police reporting wides

A total of 939 infiltrators have been apprehended along the Indo-Bangladesh border by security personnel this year till June. "Even though there are no significant incidences of infiltration on India...

A Bangladeshi garment worker holds her child as she participates in a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The workers demanded a raise in minimum wage to Bangladeshi taka 5000 (US$ 7...

Central Working Committee of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday said the Awami League-led grand alliance government is conspiring to create anarchy in the country in the name of restoring the consti...

Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday demanded re-investigation into the killing and trial of the killers of its former central secretary and Khulna district unit president Ratan Sen. CPB lead...

The Supreme Court verdict on the fifth amendment to the constitution has provided the government an impetus for establishing a secular democratic Bangladesh, said State Minister for Liberation War Aff...

DHAKA: Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80 per cent after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a Government minister said yesterday.Garment workers in...

Two high-profile Pakistani intellectuals yesterday welcomed Bangladesh's move to expose Bengali-speaking perpetrators of 1971 crimes against humanity, as a special tribunal earlier this week in its ma...

Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers blocked highways, attacked factories and looted shops in Dhaka yesterday, police said, after rejecting the terms of a government wage hike.An estimated 5,000 w...

Garment workers shout slogans during a protest in Dhaka July 30, 2010. Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers took to the streets, burning cars and blocking traffic in Dhaka on Friday to protest aga...

Garment workers shout slogans during a protest in Dhaka July 30, 2010. Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers took to the streets, burning cars and blocking traffic in Dhaka on Friday to protest aga...