Dhaka, Bangladesh News

Mysore, Apr.17- In an initiative by the International Sericulture Commission to expand sericulture activities in the SAARC countries, the Secretary General of the ISC Ishitha Roy, IAS, invited a two-member delegation from SAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, comprising Dr. Abdul Kalam Azad, Director and Dr. Tayan Raj Gurung, Sr. Programme Specialist , SAC ... (more)

The Government of Bangladesh should allow garment exporters to invest 5 to 10 percent of their export value for opening showrooms and outlets in the UK, which has a huge market for Bangladeshi clothing brands, said chairman of the newly formed trade body UK Bangladesh Catalysts of Commerce and Industry Ltd Iqbal Ahmed.

We estimate the effect of antibiotics given in the intrapartum period on early-onset neonatal sepsis in Dhaka, Bangladesh using propensity score techniques.

MADE spur juts into the mighty Jamuna river-known as the Brahmaputra upstream, over the border in India-near the town of Enayetpur.

"IT TOOK us two years, but the greed kept us going," Yusuf Munshi told police after they arrested him and his accomplice.

On April 24 last year, the Rana Plaza factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh - the workplace of thousands of garment makers - collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring more than 2,500.

Bangladeshi ISP Agni Systems has begun to build a WiMax network in the country's capital, Dhaka, using equipment from Motorola.

The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against the cultural affairs secretary and the director general of the Department of Archeology for not complying with its 2011 directive to protect the historical Lalbagh Fort in Old Dhaka.

Most of us do not have the means to shop for Gucci, Christian Louboutin, Louis Vuitton or any other difficult to pronounce and ludicrously expensive brands.

Pahela Baishakh is the biggest and most popular festival of Bengalis, celebrated amidst lively pageants leaving behind the gloom of the past and giving new impetus to the nation's cultural heritage.

Teachers and students protesting the murder of a student of Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh have called off their agitation.

The owner of a nine-storey building that collapsed and killed 1,135 Bangladeshi garment workers in April last year is to face murder charges, police said on Tuesday.

CHRIS UHLMANN: It was a fire that horrified the world. A hundred and seventeen people died and more than 200 were injured when a fire trap that was a garment factory in Bangladesh burned down in 2012.

Despite being key structural components of chromatin, it is not known whether the different variants have specific roles in the regulation of nuclear processes or are differentially distributed throughout the genome.

"We've seen one of the biggest concentrations of shoppers this weekend as customers rush to shopping malls to buy new clothes and other items," Selim Reza, a salesman of Aarong, Bangladesh's leading fashion and lifestyle brand, told Xinhua.

Bangladesh garment factory owners say they are soaking up much of the cost of nearly doubling wages as some global retailers balk at price hikes, leaving less money for safety improvements urged by apparel chains after last year's Rana Plaza disaster.

Bangladesh garment factory owners say they are soaking up much of the cost of nearly doubling wages as some global retailers balk at price hikes, leaving less money for safety improvements urged by apparel chains after last year's Rana Plaza disaster.

Despite being slum-ridden and overcrowded, Bangladesh's capital Dhaka not only rivals the real estate prices of Manhattan-it eclipses them more than fourfold.

Parkway Hospitals with a view to serving Bangladeshi patients in a more efficient way, Parkway Cancer Centre , the leading cancer centre in Singapore, has introduced telemedicine service in their Dhaka office.

Mesmerising dance sequences by leading dance artistes and young ones were enjoyed by a rapt audience at the packed district Shilpakala Academy auditorium on Sunday evening.