Bangladesh

A fire in a Bangladesh food factory has killed at least 43 people, police said on Friday, as emergency services brought out bodies even as the building was still in flames. The blaze broke out in Hashem food factory in Rupganj, an…

At least 26 people have been killed after a speedboat packed with passengers collided with a vessel transporting sand in Bangladesh. Police said on Monday that the speedboat carrying about 36 passengers from the town of Mawa slammed into…

Hundreds of members and supporters of an Islamist group, Hefazat-e-Islam, including its influential leader, have been arrested in Bangladesh over the past week, officials said, over deadly protests against the visit of Indian Prime Minister…

A fire at a makeshift market near a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, has destroyed more than 20 shops and killed at least three people, police and witnesses said. Local police chief, Ahmed Sanjur Morshed on Friday said they…

Two people have died in fresh clashes between protesters and Bangladesh police on Sunday, raising the death toll from religious hardline protests against the visit of India’s Hindu-nationalist leader to 13, officials said. The…

At least four people were killed in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong after police fired at protesters during a demonstration against a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, police officials said. Modi is in Bangladesh to attend…

Bangladesh has defended the use of barbed wire fences around vast camps holding almost a million Rohingya refugees, after a major fire left at least 15 people dead and nearly 45,000 homeless. The fire, which gutted some 10,000 refugee…

Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island over the next two days despite concerns about the risk of storms and floods lashing the site. Dhaka has relocated around 7,000 to Bhasan Char…