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Matiur Rahman Nizami, head of the country's main Islamist opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami, enters a prison van at a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Nizami was among 14 people sentenced to death on Thursday on charges of smuggling weapons to a rebel group in neighboring India. (AP Photo/Khurshed Rinku)

14 sentenced to death in Bangladesh arms smuggling

Julhas Alam · January 30, 2014 10:08 am

Suicide suspected in death of Bangladesh survivor

Julhas Alam · January 27, 2014 10:53 am

Bangladeshi soldiers walk at the site where a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed on April 24 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 13, 2013. Nearly three weeks after the building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127.(AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Search ends in Bangladesh; death toll put at 1,127

Farid Hossain, Julhas Alam · May 13, 2013 4:00 am

Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Saver, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. Rescue workers in Bangladesh freed the woman buried for 17 days inside the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed, killing more than 1,000 people. Soldiers at the site said her name was Reshma and described her as being in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal. (AP Photo)

Woman rescued after 17 days in Bangladesh rubble

Julhas Alam · May 10, 2013 4:00 am

A woman faints after weeping for hours near the rubble of the eight-story Rana Plaza building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Thursday, May 9, 2013. The death toll from the collapse of the garment factory building passed 900 on Thursday even as a fire in an 11-story garment factory Wednesday night in Dhaka killed eight people, including a ruling-party politician and a top official in the country's powerful clothing manufacturers' trade group. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

Bangladesh fire kills 8 as collapse toll hits 950

Julhas Alam · May 9, 2013 4:00 am

Bangladesh garment accident death toll passes 700

Julhas Alam · May 7, 2013 8:26 am

A Bangladeshi relative of garment worker Mohammed Abdullah cries as his coffin is nailed shut after collecting his body at a makeshift morgue in a schoolyard near a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, April 27, 2013. Police in Bangladesh arrested two owners of a garment factory in a shoddily-constructed building that collapsed this week, killing hundreds of people, as protests spread to a second city Saturday with hundreds of people throwing stones and setting fire to vehicles. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Bangladesh building collapse death toll nears 350

Farid Hossain, Julhas Alam · April 27, 2013 4:00 am

A Bangladeshi woman weeps as she holds a picture of her and her missing husband as she waits at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. The death toll reached hundreds of people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Big brands rejected Bangladesh factory safety plan

Kay Johnson, Julhas Alam · April 26, 2013 4:00 am

Bangladeshi people gather as rescuers look for survivors and victims at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh,Thursday, April 25, 2013. By Thursday, the death toll reached at least 194 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

Workers pinned in Bangladesh rubble cry for rescue

alemrun-garjon, Julhas Alam · April 25, 2013 4:00 am

Rescue workers pull a woman out from the rubble after an eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Dozens were killed and many more are feared trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)

Collapsed factory building in Bangladesh kills 87

Julhas Alam · April 24, 2013 4:00 am

1 dead in Bangladesh opposition shutdown

Julhas Alam · March 19, 2013 3:25 pm

Blasts, arrests mark Bangladesh general strike

Julhas Alam · March 18, 2013 6:27 am