India’s factory growth accelerated at the fastest pace in three months in August, driven by strong growth in new orders and output, according to a private survey that however also showed job creation was at a four-month low.

The High Court yesterday directed the government not to approve any factory within 10 kilometres of the Sundarbans.

A fire broke out at the plastic factory at Kornopara under Savar upazila at the outskirts of Dhaka. No reports of casualties were filed.

Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) lauds the reforms in ensuring safety standard at garment factories in three years, following Rana Plaza disaster, and adds that more needs to be done.

Bangladesh government should urgently remove legal and practical obstacles to unionization in garment industries, Human Rights Watch says.

A Dhaka court yesterday finally started trial against 13 people in the case filed in connection with the devastating fire at Tazreen Fashions that killed 112 workers in Ashulia in 2012.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides $18 million for factory upgradation in the garment industry, the lifeline of Bangladesh economy.

Latest data suggests factory activity in China shrank at its fastest pace in more than six years in August.

Scheduled banks at RMG areas in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Ashulia, Tongi, Savar and Chittagong will stay open for payments of wages.

An electronics factory caught fire in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur