Bangladesh’s garment factories could generate up to 1,768 megawatt-peak (MWp) of electricity through rooftop solar, helping meet demand amid persistent power shortages, according to a Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) study.

Nearly 300 garment factories were shut amid lingering protests by workers in Gazipur and Ashulia today to press home their demand for an increase in the minimum wage, according to industrial police.

An IFC, ILO assessment finds

Seventeen Bangladeshi textile and garment companies took part in three international summer exhibitions -- Techtextil, Texprocess and the Heimtextil -- in Germany’s Frankfort.

Bangladesh has more green garment factories than any other country in the world.

Shobita Rani has been unemployed most of the last five years despite being hired a couple of times by garment factories in Savar.

Bangladesh faced a national crisis when an eight-story building called Rana Plaza housing several garment factories collapsed to the ground, leaving a huge pile of rubble and thousands of lives trapped underneath. It was the deadliest building collapse in modern human history that shook the nation to its core.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) yesterday lauded the reforms made after the Rana Plaza disaster to ensure workers' safety at