The Latest Breaking News from Dhaka

MUMBAI/DHAKA: A near doubling in benchmark cotton futures to 11-year highs, hard on the heels of a spike in freight and fuel prices, is clobbering Asian apparel makers while their global retail customers are reluctant to soak up the extra costs.

The new train is in addition to two existing passenger train services -- Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express and Kolkata-Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express

What does the Bangladesh PM’s offer mean? Is there any action on the ground?

As families migrate after climate-related disasters, UNICEF says 1.7 million of country’s children are now labourers.

The service will be available for six days in a week, except on Fridays, and the fare has been fixed at Rs 2,300 per passenger, said TRTC MD Rajesh Kumar Das

The two countries are now working on a joint production of a bio-pic on Sheikh Mujibbur Rehman, the founder of Bangladesh

Dhaka court pronounces verdict in the 2004 killing of Humayun Azad by members of a now-banned Muslim group.

Guests can dine like Dhaka’s old aristocracy, roam the garden of a colonial home, and dive into Zamindar history.

A cargo vessel hit a ferry carrying dozens of people along a river outside Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.

With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history. Dhaka muslin was stitched from threads so fine that popular folklore in European parlors held that a change in the light or…

The blood-stained streets of Dhaka in 1952 are a powerful reminder of the vitality of our mother languages even today