Bangladesh needs a vibrant, livable and economically diverse Dhaka City to reach middle-income status. Peri-urban areas of Dhaka require better infrastructure and services to transform into globally ...
Nestled in Bangladesh’s Bay of Bengal, the industrial port city Mongla is steadily preparing itself for climate change. The mayor has built flood defences against rising tides, planted several ...
In disaster-prone Bangladesh, all the country's 329 municipalities have agreed to join the U.N.'s Making Cities Resilient Campaign KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladeshi ...
Bombs exploded in two Bangladesh cities on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 66 in what appeared to be the latest attack by militant Muslims intent on imposing harsh Islamic law, ...
NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As pale fumes billowed from a factory in the Bandar neighbourhood of Narayanganj, clouding the afternoon sky, tea-stall owner Riad, 21, ...
Bombs exploded in two Bangladesh cities on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and injuring 66 in what appeared to be the latest attack by militant Muslims intent on imposing harsh Islamic law, ...
NEW DELHI — Wide swathes of the coasts of India and Bangladesh were flooded and millions of people remained without power Thursday, after the most powerful cyclone to hit the region in more than ...
Dhaka and Bangladesh's other densely populated cities stand exposed to alarming seismic hazards—an uncomfortable truth underscored by the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that rattled the nation on November ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, once a city of lush forests and grass fields, has suffered drastic environmental changes due to rapid urbanization, experts say. Now ...
Bangladesh on Wednesday launched its first metro rail service in the capital Dhaka, with officials and commuters hopeful it will help ease traffic in one of the world’s most densely populated and ...
NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As pale fumes billowed from a factory in the Bandar neighbourhood of Narayanganj, clouding the afternoon sky, tea-stall owner Riad, 21, ...