https://sagire.online/topic/bangladesh/ Articles and notes about Bangladesh. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/20d91a5a/https://sagire.online/wire/20d91a5a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:22:00 -0300Bangladesh’s garment wage board, set up by the government on Sunday, agreed to raise workers’ pay, without specifying the size of the increase. Workers are demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka (about $240), a 140 percent increase on the current 12,500 taka, citing rising food, housing, transport and healthcare costs in a country with eight percent inflation. Babul Akter, the workers’ representative on the board, said the board will conclude its work by December so that revised salaries can be paid in January, and that the factory owners’ representative agreed on this point. Protests continued on Wednesday morning in industrial hubs including Gazipur, Mirpur, Narayanganj and Savar, with reports of factories being vandalized. According to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), the unrest has forced 529 garment factories to shut down and left 987,190 workers out of work.BangladeshLaborProtestsSouth Asia https://sagire.online/wire/6070883c/https://sagire.online/wire/6070883c/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:21:00 -0300Paramilitary forces were deployed to Gazipur and Narayanganj, where garment workers demanding a 30,000-taka minimum wage are staying on the streets for a fourth day, with 58 police officers injured, according to police and to Agence France-Presse (AFP), in a text republished by The Hindu. The protests continue despite the government's announcement of a board to review the minimum wage.BangladeshLaborProtests https://sagire.online/wire/0699f934/https://sagire.online/wire/0699f934/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:22:00 -0300Bangladesh’s garment factories reopened on Monday, November 2, 2026, after widespread closures and production disruptions a day earlier, and manufacturers remain concerned about further unrest over workers’ demands for higher wages. Workers are asking for a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka ($243), up from 12,500 taka, according to Reuters, in a text republished by WHTC.BangladeshLaborProtestsEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/a3af918a/https://sagire.online/wire/a3af918a/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Bangladesh formed a new board on Sunday, November 1, 2026, to review the minimum wage for garment workers as authorities sought to quell protests that have disrupted key industrial hubs around Dhaka, according to The Hindu. Despite the announcement, thousands of workers demanding higher wages continued protesting around the capital, Dhaka, and clashes were reported with police, who fired tear gas and sound grenades, according to Al Jazeera.BangladeshLaborProtests https://sagire.online/wire/614683ce/https://sagire.online/wire/614683ce/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300Garment factory workers in Dhaka and Gazipur protested on Sunday for better wages and blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway to demand a monthly minimum wage of 30,000 takas, according to the Hindustan Times. In Dhaka’s Mirpur area, protesters torched a police vehicle after a clash with police, and at least 80 factories were shut in the two cities during the unrest, according to Prothom Alo, cited by the Hindustan Times. Nineteen people were detained in Dhaka in connection with the violence, according to the Daily Star, also cited by the Indian newspaper.BangladeshLaborProtestsSouth Asia https://sagire.online/wire/f0731724/https://sagire.online/wire/f0731724/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:23:00 -0300Bangladesh will set up a wage board on Sunday to review garment workers’ pay after protests shut dozens of factories and triggered clashes with police, Reuters reported. Workers are demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka ($245), more than double the current 12,500 taka.BangladeshLaborSouth Asia https://sagire.online/wire/4c247469/https://sagire.online/wire/4c247469/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:23:00 -0300National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam accused Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s government at a rally in Dhaka of seeking to facilitate an Indian transit corridor through the country and threatened fresh protests if the Ganges water-sharing agreement is not renewed on terms that protect Bangladesh’s share, according to The Hindu, citing the newspapers Prothom Alo and bdnews24. Signed on December 12, 1996, the 30-year treaty expires on December 12 and governs the sharing of the Ganges waters at the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal during the lean season, from January to May.BangladeshIndiaDiplomacySouth Asia https://sagire.online/wire/2943aabe/https://sagire.online/wire/2943aabe/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:23:00 -0300A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif to death for the killing of six people in Kushtia during the July Uprising, according to The Hindu. Hanif is the 23rd leader of the now-disbanded Awami League to receive the death penalty since Sheikh Hasina's ouster.BangladeshJusticeSouth Asia https://sagire.online/wire/e4eedcf5/https://sagire.online/wire/e4eedcf5/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:23:00 -0300The 1996 treaty governing dry-season water sharing of the Ganges at India's Farakka Barrage, 20 km upstream of Bangladesh, expires on December 12, according to AFP. Bangladesh needs a new deal based on “mutual benefit and respect”, Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, a prime ministerial adviser who heads a technical committee on water-sharing, told AFP.BangladeshIndiaSouth AsiaDiplomacyClimate https://sagire.online/wire/7645d6fd/https://sagire.online/wire/7645d6fd/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:22:00 -0300Japan and Bangladesh agreed to expand cooperation on supply chains and energy, with projected Japanese private investment of up to one trillion yen in Bangladesh over the next five years expected to create 200,000 jobs, according to The Business Standard. The two prime ministers agreed the initiative integrates the development of power, energy, a deep-sea port, and industrial and information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, the newspaper reported.JapanBangladeshSupply chainsEnergyTrade https://sagire.online/wire/50cc78eb/https://sagire.online/wire/50cc78eb/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:23:00 -0300A Bangladeshi man and woman were executed in Mecca on Wednesday after being convicted of committing an “indecent act” inside a mosque, according to the Saudi interior ministry, the BBC reported. Bangladeshi authorities said they were not informed of the execution until after it had taken place.BangladeshSaudi ArabiaHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/ad7e44ed/https://sagire.online/wire/ad7e44ed/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:24:00 -0300Russia is in discussions with Bangladesh to build a new phase of high-capacity units at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, Rosatom CEO Aleksey Likhachev said, according to RT. Its first unit is on track to be connected to the national power grid by the end of November. The plant comprises two Russian-designed reactors with a combined capacity of 2,400 megawatts, and Moscow is financing $11.9 billion in state loans for the project.BangladeshRussiaSouth AsiaEnergyNuclear https://sagire.online/wire/46c61843/https://sagire.online/wire/46c61843/Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:19:00 -0300Bangladesh and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic civil nuclear cooperation, to deepen cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The document was signed in New York on Friday, September 25, 2026, by Rehan Asad, adviser for science and technology to Bangladesh’s prime minister, and Jacob Helberg, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, according to The Hindu. The memorandum records the shared position that all civil nuclear cooperation should follow the highest standards of nuclear safety, security, safeguards and non-proliferation.BangladeshUnited StatesEnergyNuclear https://sagire.online/wire/5e2c76ec/https://sagire.online/wire/5e2c76ec/Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:05:00 -0300Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York and vowed to deepen bilateral cooperation with Dhaka and Tehran, according to the Hindustan Times, citing the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency. With Pezeshkian, Sharif said he had reaffirmed ties with Iran and urged restraint, de-escalation and sustained diplomacy in the face of the prolonged conflict, according to a post by the premier himself cited by the paper.PakistanBangladeshIranUnited NationsDiplomacy https://sagire.online/wire/0398dc25/https://sagire.online/wire/0398dc25/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:10:00 -0300The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has launched a petition calling for the suspension of Israel’s membership in the United Nations, addressed to the president of the 81st General Assembly, Khalilur Rahman, Bangladesh’s foreign minister, and arguing that Israel should be treated as South Africa was during the apartheid era. Released on Wednesday, 23 September 2026, during the Assembly’s general debate, the petition says Israel has violated international law, failed to comply with resolutions and decisions by UN bodies and the International Court of Justice and targeted UN facilities and personnel, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.South AfricaBangladeshIsraelThe LevantUnited NationsInternational justice