Workplace safety and security in Bangladeshi garment factories attracted widespread international scrutiny after the Tazreen fashion...

Four years ago, over a thousand workers lost their lives and 2500 were injured in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.

A timeline of the major industrial accidents in Bangladesh in recent years.

When I read the article titled “Is this Our City?” I was really shocked because even I never thought about how a person with disability...

Rana Plaza. The murder scene of 1,129 Bangladeshi workers, and burial ground of numerous “missing”. A national shame, an international spectacle.

The Rana Plaza collapse wasn't just the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of the garment industry; it was the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of all manufacturing.

Chaumtoli Huq explores the reality of the workers' rights movement in the garments industry of Bangladesh in her 2017 documentary Sramik Awaaz or Worker Voices.

“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”

It begins with a listless thought, brushed aside. What does a heartbeat sound like, you wonder. Brush, aside.

In this city of 14.5 million people, at least 9.07 percent of its inhabitants have some form of physical disability, according to Household Income Expenditure Survey 2011 of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

At a time when it's all but impossible to organise large-scale events without corporate sponsorship, the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), popularly known as the Charukola

Thus thunders the hero, his voice reaching far and wide, capturing the full attention of his audience. The language of jatra...

It is the first day of the Bengali New Year and our national identity seems to be in a state of predicament.

This could have been a landmark case. This could have - once and for all - proved that sexual harassment on the street is something that needs to be dealt with the force of law.

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is not only a cricket player but also a hero, a fighter and an ideal leader.

SNAPSHOT

Here in Dhaka last year, at a conference on the future of print media business, DD Purkayastha, CEO of ABP Group, the parent company of Anandabazar Patrika, said of the paper's digital strategy: “We are giving what our readers want.”

Your smartphone beeps you awake at 6am every weekday morning. On your way to work, you are scrolling down your Facebook...

Adil Mahbub lost his leg in a road accident when he was in grade seven. After the accident, Adil's studies came to a halt for a long seven years as no school agreed to enrol Adil, who is now wheelchair-bound.

The stories of prolific journey of women leaders are really inspirational for the rest of the women who live around them.