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Fire rips through Bangladesh shopping complex, smoke hampers rescue efforts

A huge fire swept through a shopping complex containing nearly 1,500 shops in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, officials said on Saturday as firefighters and soldiers struggled to put out the blaze with smoke hampering rescue efforts.

Reuters

Fast Fashion: Why garment workers' lives are still in danger 10 years after Rana Plaza — Podcast

Fast fashion is that ever-changing need to have the latest beautiful thing at a bargain price — that club-ready piece of clothing, that status symbol shoe or that must-have top you just found at the mall.

The Conversation

‘Time we put an end to it’: the Bangladeshi women fighting their silent killer

A group of Bangladesh’s health workers are working to reach women in some of the country’s most isolated places, to fight back against stigma of cervical cancer

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The Australian town where water insecurity is felt more than some communities in Bangladesh

Welcome to Walgett, where bottled water can be more expensive than Coca-Cola, and Indigenous residents go to bed thirsty.

ABC News

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan named ICC Player of the Month for March

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh’s star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been named ICC Player of the Month awards for March 2023 by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday while Rwanda’s Henriette Ishimwe bagged the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award.

The Times of India

Plant pandemics threatening global food supplies, scientists warn

‘We have to assume that plant diseases are going to spread all over the world,’ scientist says

The Independent UK

Bangladesh arrests four for caning, stoning woman over affair

Police say the woman was ‘caned 82 strokes’ and ‘stoned 80 times’ with small brick pieces after an imam issued ‘fatwa’.

Al Jazeera

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'I went on holiday with my family - and was the only one to come back alive'

Sadiqul Islam, 25, was in Bangladesh on holiday in July 2022 with his parents and two siblings when a freak gas leak killed his entire family - he may have been saved by a simple fan

Daily Mirror

'I went away with my family - I was the only one to return alive'

Sadiqul has told his heartbreaking story

Manchester Evening News

'I survived a freak gas leak that killed my mum, dad, brother and sister'

He survived because of a fan next to his bed

Wales Online

The melting point mile of restaurants that became Wales' curry capital

There's nowhere better in Wales if you fancy a curry

Wales Online

Amanda Little: Ukraine has given the world a blueprint to fight hunger

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year triggered tumult across global grain markets. As the cost of corn and wheat surged, panic spread about instability in countries from Yemen to Bangladesh that depend on the warring region for low-cost grains. Would famine worsen? Would civil unrest ensue?

Tribune News Service

Ireland comfortably beaten by Bangladesh in one-off Test

Mushfiqur Rahim hit a half-century to guide the hosts to victory.

The Independent UK

‘Spreading faster than ever’: Bangladesh’s tea pickers have world’s highest rate of leprosy

Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease

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The Independent UK

Lorcan Tucker hits Ireland’s second Test century to lead fight in Bangladesh

The Dubliner made 108 from number seven as the tourists fought to 286 for eight to lead by 131 at stumps.

Evening Standard

Jet-setting Will Jacks learning to rest up after injury leaves him grounded

Even by the standards of this winter, one in which cricket truly never slept, Will Jacks was a busy man.

The Times of India

Debutant Lorcan Tucker becomes only second Irishman to hit Test century

NEW DELHI: Debutant Lorcan Tucker entered record books on Thursday as he became only the second Irishman to hit a Test century after Kevin O’Brien during the one-off Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka.

Birmingham Post

Cardiff fintech Agam launches first digital microfinance product into Bangladesh

The microcredit gives unbanked entrepreneurs and gig economy workers who may not have a credit history access to loans

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IPL 2023: Jason Roy roped in by KKR for Rs 2.8 crore

NEW DELHI: Following injury to regular captain Shreyas Iyer and the pullout of Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) roped in England opener Jason Roy on Wednesday to give the side a boost.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Huge Fire Destroys Popular Clothes Market in Dhaka

Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters battled an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday and blanketed the city's oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke. No fatalities have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the famous Bongo Bazar and…

The Independent UK

Harry Tector hits 50 on Test debut as Ireland post 214 against Bangladesh

The tourists reduced the hosts to 34 for two in response.

The Independent UK

Fire races through clothing market in Bangladesh capital

A massive fire was burning through a popular market for cheaper clothes in Bangladesh’s capital

Reuters

Massive fire rages through Bangladesh cloth markets

A massive fire raged through at least six cloth markets in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka on Tuesday, local media reported citing witnesses and fire officials.

Al Jazeera

Massive fire guts popular clothing market in Bangladesh capital

Thousands of garment shops burn down in the fire, dealing a major blow to businesses weeks before the Eid festival.

The Guardian - UK

‘We lay like corpses. Then the raping began’: 52 years on, Bangladesh’s rape camp survivors speak out

In 1971, the Pakistan army began a brutal crackdown against Bengalis in which hundreds of thousands of women were detained and repeatedly brutalised. Only now are their stories beginning to be told

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