DHAKA, Bangladesh—Firefighters were working to get under control a massive fire that burned through a popular clothing market and spread to other small markets and buildings in Bangladesh’s capital Tuesday. No casualties have been reported so far. The fire started at Bangabazar Market in Dhaka at 6:10 a.m. and firefighters from 47 units were working…

An explosion in a commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Tuesday resulted in 17 fatalities and more than 100 injuries, with the death toll likely to increase as rescue efforts continue, local authorities said. Police said the explosion occurred in a six-story building in the capital’s Gulistan area at around 4.50 p.m. local time,…

DHAKA—At least six people were killed and several injured on Saturday when a fire broke out following an explosion at an oxygen plant in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said. The death toll could rise as a rescue operation was ongoing at the plant at Sitakunda, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the southeastern port city of Chittagong,…

Bangladesh authorities have evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from the Cox’s Bazar coast to temporary storm shelters as the deadly Cyclone Sitrang made landfall in the country. The cyclone claimed the lives of at least nine people on Tuesday, destroying houses and damaging power and communication lines in coastal villages, Reuters reported. Cyclone Sitrang…

DHAKA—A cyclone roared into the Bangladesh coast on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, destroying houses, uprooting trees, and disrupting road, power, and communication links, officials said. Mass evacuations before Cyclone Sitrang made landfall on the west coast helped save lives but the full extent of the casualties and damage would only be known after…

Millions of people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday after an electrical grid failure triggered seven-hour-long blackouts in most areas of the country. The national power grid malfunctioned at 2.05 p.m. (local time) on Tuesday, sending much of the country—except for some parts in the North—into a blackout until 9 p.m., local media Dhaka…

DHAKA—The death toll from the sinking of an overcrowded ferry carrying Hindu devotees in northern Bangladesh climbed to 61 on Tuesday, with many passengers still missing two days after the disaster. Onlookers and relatives of the missing gathered along the riverbank as rescuers searched for bodies, witnesses said. “I just want to see the face…

Protests erupted in Bangladesh after the government raised fuel prices by a record 51.2 percent, with thousands of people thronging gas stations before the increase went into effect. The price of gasoline increased to 130 takas ($1.36) per liter on Aug. 6, while 95-octane gasoline increased 51.7 percent to 135 takas ($1.42). Diesel and kerosene…

Police in Bangladesh are investigating a case of suspected poisoning after a British man and his son were found dead while three others family members are hospitalized. Police said that they found five family members unconscious after their relatives raised an alarm when the family did not answer their calls in Sylhet on Tuesday. Rafiqul…

At least 16 people were killed and 60 others were feared trapped in a mudslide triggered by prolonged heavy rain at a railroad construction site in northeast India, Indian officials said on July 1. Nineteen people have been sent to the Noney Army Medical unit for treatment, and rescue operations are still ongoing, The Times…