garment

The other side of global retailers

While Bangladesh’s garment sector struggles  to transition from basic products to high-end items, too many companies are going in for the same international contracts, intensifying competition among themselves.
1 March 2024, 18:00 PM

The fog before the election

While the prime minister is unofficially on her campaign trail, the opposition camp is on the run.
13 November 2023, 02:00 AM

To fight fast fashion, we must not throw our clothes away

Fixing instead of ditching clothing is gaining momentum.
20 October 2023, 10:29 AM

Garment workers clash with police demanding wage hike

Garment workers protested in Mirpur today demanding a hike in wages. Violent clash ensued with the police afterwards. 
4 June 2022, 17:04 PM

Bangladesh can create millions of jobs in RMG sector: WB study

Bangladesh can create millions of jobs for garment workers through improving the productivity and social and environmental compliance, according to a new study by the World Bank (WB).
2 May 2016, 15:02 PM

CPD hails reform measures

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) yesterday lauded the reforms made after the Rana Plaza disaster to ensure workers' safety at
23 April 2016, 18:00 PM

CPD lauds safety steps at factories, says more needs done

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.
23 April 2016, 05:09 AM

Quest for dawn ends in darkness

They had come to Dhaka for jobs so they could get out of poverty and help their families. But the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse not only demolished their hopes but also pushed them into endless misery.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Pave way for unionisation in garments: HRW

Bangladesh government should urgently remove legal and practical obstacles to unionization in garment industries, Human Rights Watch says.
21 April 2016, 04:26 AM

Supreme Court lifts ban on Rana Plaza movie

Supreme Court clears way for release and screening of movie Rana Plaza, which is based on the miraculous rescue of garment worker Reshma 17 days into the 2013 collapse of the building in Savar.
6 September 2015, 06:43 AM

Trying to save child, man dies under train

A garment worker dies under a train when he tried to save a child standing on the rail tracks in Dhaka’s Banani area.
3 August 2015, 14:43 PM

Banks to stay open Jul 15 to clear RMG wages

Scheduled banks at RMG areas in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Ashulia, Tongi, Savar and Chittagong will stay open for payments of wages.
12 July 2015, 08:53 AM

Export tax rises to 1pc

Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his budget speech proposes an increase of tax at source for all export sectors to 1 percent.
4 June 2015, 15:44 PM

Rana Plaza: Tk 108cr PMO fund unused, says TIB

Transparency International Bangladesh points out lack of transparency and dillydallies in the disbursement of the fund for victims of the Rana Plaza collapse, the world’s largest workplace disaster.
21 April 2015, 09:18 AM

UC Berkeley first to have Bangladesh studies centre

Improving garment-industry safety, designing apps to solve social problems and gathering data on antibiotic-resistant bacteria found on fruits and vegetables: These are among the innovative research projects made possible by UC Berkeley’s new Subir & Malini Chowdhury Centre for Bangladesh Studies
28 March 2015, 07:28 AM

Garment worker's death in road crash sparks protest in Narayanganj

Garment workers set a bus afire after it ran over one of their colleagues in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj this morning. Agitating workers also vandalised at least 10 vehicles, witnesses say.
28 March 2015, 05:41 AM