The Gujarati town accounts for nearly 98 percent of India’s total and about a third of the global ship recycling volume.

The flag must be hoisted from sunrise to sunset in all cases except on motor vehicles, ships and aircraft. However, the flag may be kept hoisted at night during the session of parliament or the ...

As the ship recycling industry is heavily concentrated in Sitakunda, authorities decided to establish the board’s office in Chattogram rather than continuing operations from the Ministry of Industries ...

Bangladeshi police began exhuming on Dec. 7 a mass grave believed to contain around 114 unidentified victims of a mass ...

A devastating fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has destroyed 1,500 shanties and left thousands homeless DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A devastating fire in a crowded slum int the heart of ...

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake has shaken central Bangladesh, killing at least six people and leaving dozens injured DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook central Bangladesh on Friday, ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and one of her close aides were sentenced to death Monday over her crackdown on a student uprising last year that killed ...

A special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on charges of crimes against humanity involving last year's mass uprising that killed hundreds of people and ...

Sheikh Hasina, who is in exile in India, was convicted in absentia of crimes against humanity in connection with a bloody crackdown on protests last year. By Saif Hasnat and Anupreeta Das Saif Hasnat ...

Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that ...