Dhaka, October 28, 2017 — City planning in Bangladesh needs to be done in a more sustainable way so that rapidly urbanizing parts of the country have the necessary infrastructure and services to make ...

NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As pale fumes billowed from a factory in the Bandar neighbourhood of Narayanganj, clouding the afternoon sky, tea-stall owner Riad, 21, ...

PANAM NAGAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Voters in Bangladesh went to the polls Sunday in the densely populated South Asian nation’s 11th general election to determine whether to give Prime Minister Sheikh ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, once a city of lush forests and grass fields, has suffered drastic environmental changes due to rapid urbanization, experts say. Now ...

GlobalPost's Erik German and Solana Pine look at the coming dystopia that is urbanization. In the five-part, the authors look at Dhaka, Bangladesh, which by 2025 the U.N. predicts will be home to more ...

As an effective remedy to unbearable traffic congestion, experts have advised that the government overhaul Dhaka’s ramshackle fleet of buses and bring the service under a single company. The idea is ...