Explore social compliance audits in Bangladesh’s RMG sector and their impact on workers.

The challenges are multifaceted, from a heavy reliance on fossil fuels to inefficiencies within factory operations.

As of yesterday, 51.21 percent, or 4,849 out of 9,469 mills and factories, did not pay the salaries for the month of March, data from the Industrial Police showed.

Environmentalists yesterday urged the government to cancel its recent decision to allow industries in Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) of the Sundarbans and said the decision would be “disastrous” for the world's largest mangrove forest.

Tanners can bring in rawhides and skins to their factories of Hazaribagh until April 10, as a government wing yesterday relaxed a directive banning rawhides to the tanneries there.

Millions of gallons of untreated wastewaters, mainly from industries, are being dumped into the rivers around Dhaka city through as many as 185 outlets every day.