It has been sixty years since the Concert for Bangladesh; It is doubtful that this low-income country, with half the population and 1/66th the size of the US, has had as much coverage in the media as ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Friday closed all schools and colleges for two weeks to counter an "alarming" rise in COVID-19 infections, just four months after ending a 1-1/2 year school closure ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres explained that ‘the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying inequalities experienced by the world’s one billion people with disabilities’. This statement is a timely ...

The coronavirus has silenced even Dhaka's cacophony. The notoriously traffic-clogged streets of Bangladesh's capital were eerily empty Thursday, save for soldiers on patrol on the first day of a ...

DHAKA, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh ordered a strict lockdown in five camps that are home to nearly 100,000 Rohingya refugees following a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in the ...

DHAKA, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has slowed efforts to make safer the often hazardous job of dismantling old ships in Bangladesh, officials said, following the ...

In January, Bangladesh seemed to be doing well in terms of curbing the transmission of COVID-19. The infection rate was recorded at lower than 5 percent for seven weeks straight in mid-January, ...

Mizanur Rahman paid double for a seat in a night coach bus from Rajbari, a district in central Bangladesh, to return to Dhaka city after celebrating the Eid-al Adha festival. He was supposed to have ...

The government is lifting a lockdown despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak could worsen. By Saif Hasnat and Karan Deep Singh DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nasrin Jahan woke up gasping for air.

The coronavirus has silenced even Dhaka's cacophony. The notoriously traffic-clogged streets of Bangladesh's capital were eerily empty Thursday, save for soldiers on patrol on the first day of a ...