Groups used guns and spears to prevent supporters of rivals from reaching the polling booths in a village in Narsingdi district in central Bangladesh, killing three people, said Satyajt Kumar ...

The loan was tiny. Just $19 to buy a bus ticket. But for Mariful Islam, the difference it made was immense. Islam is 24. He has lived in the same rural village in Bangladesh his whole life. He ...

Joypurhat/Dhaka, Bangladesh, and New Delhi/Kolkata, India – Under the mild afternoon sun, 45-year-old Safiruddin sits outside his incomplete brick-walled house in Baiguni village of Kalai ...

Every day, more than 1,500 women and girls are forced to serve the wishes of more than 3,000 men a day for as little as £2 in the village of Daulatdia, home to one of the world's largest brothels.

Thirty-two years ago, Bangladesh's first groundwater arsenic was discovered in Chamagram village of Chapainawabganj by the Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE). At the time, it was ...

Bangladesh’s ‘Village Banker’ Faces Toughest Challenge Yet: Running His Country© KM Asad/Zuma Press ...

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DHAKA (Reuters) - Solar power is in place in nearly a million homes in rural Bangladesh, which is drastically short of electricity, the World Bank said on Monday. "More than 870,000 homes and ...

Bangladeshi film 'The Salt in Our Waters,' which will play at COP26, is a stark reminder of the issues the event is trying to highlight.

Evidence from many countries suggests a close association between school absenteeism and high rates of school drop-out, grade repetition and low academic achievement, and health and psychological ...