The management of Stitchwell Designs Ltd, an export-oriented garment factory, yesterday claimed that it had to stop production in 2020 after international buyers took exception to the odour of naphthalene in shirts exported by the company.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested four people including a couple for their alleged involvement in abducting an official of a garment factory in Gazipur.

Arif Hossain* has been worried about his future since his name and photo was put on a list of “suspended” workers outside his garment factory in Ashulia in the middle of January.

Several hundred workers of a garment factory blocked two streets in Mirpur-1 area for around 12 hours yesterday, protesting the sacking of their co-workers.

Fire that broke out at a cotton factory in Ashulia of Savar is doused after one and a half an hour.

AT the beginning of the industrial revolution, a farmer was also able to make shoes, and the women spent their days making handmade pottery and spinning yarn or cloth.

High Court denies bail to an owner of a garment factory housed in Rana Plaza building that collapsed in 2013, in a corruption case.