The number of apparel work orders received by Bangladeshi companies from international retailers and brands for the autumn and winter seasons of 2025 dropped by nearly 10 percent compared to the past due to major shocks from the nationwide student movement and labour unrest in major industrial belts over the past two and half months.
There was no report of any attack or vandalism in any factory, or any road blockade anywhere in the area.
Around 114 garment factories have been shut down due to labour unrest in the Ashulia and Gazipur industrial areas, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).
Negotiations between the owners and workers are still in progress in a bid to resolve the issues
There were no reports of attacks, vandalism, or road blockades in the area today
The factories had announced yesterday that they would resume operations from today.
A joint operation involving the Bangladesh Army, local police, and Industrial Police has commenced since early today in the garment industrial zones of Dhaka and Gazipur
The Industrial Police and the army reached the scene and managed to persuade the workers to remove the barricades on the Baipail-Abdullahpur road.
A Baul singer has alleged that she was raped by two men in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.
A child who was abducted two days ago from Ashulia, at the outskirts of Dhaka, has been rescued in Natore.
A person is killed and three others are injured as a gas cylinder of a car explodes at Ashulia, on the outskirts area of the capital, Dhaka.
Fire that broke out at a cotton factory in Ashulia of Savar is doused after one and a half an hour.
An apartment guard has been found dead and tied-up in Savar’s Ashulia this morning with three motorbikes missing from the garage of that building.
At least two people are killed as a bus and a truck collide head-on at Dhaka’s Turag on the Abdullahpur-Ashulia road.
A garment worker, who was injured in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Savar, died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Cops and intelligence agencies need to be more professional and competent. And that would be possible only through depoliticisation of these institutions. Fighting terrorism is a tricky battle, which must be fought both intellectually and professionally – not by hatching conspiracy theories.
A three-member probe committee has been formed over the attack on police at Ashulia that left a police constable dead.
Police constable stabbed dead after unknown assailants attack a patrol team of Ashulia industrial police at the outskirts of Dhaka. One other policeman injured in the attack.
A Dhaka court places former BNP lawmaker Dewan Mohammad Salauddin and Municipality Mayor Mohammad Refat Ullah each on a 10-day remand in two cases filed for keeping firearms and explosives illegally.
