A grid failure has caused widespread blackouts, plunging some 130 million people into darkness in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has attacked rich countries over their failures to take action regarding climate change.

A Rohingya teenager has been killed and at least six people injured when mortar shells fired from Myanmar exploded in Bangladesh.

It was the 5th anniversary of their forced expulsion from Myanmar.

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet says that it remains unsafe for Rohingya refugees to return to their homes in Myanmar, nearly five years after a crackdown there sparked an exodus to neighbouring Bangladesh.

UN Human Rights chief arrives in Bangladesh on a trip that includes a visit to the squalid camps where over a million displaced Rohingya refugees from Myanmar reside.

Some 150,000 workers at over 200 Bangladeshi tea plantations hold a strike against dollar-a-day wages.

The Iranian Navy chief says the naval forces seek to establish and boost interaction with the oppressed independent countries.

This episode looks at the toxic wave of Islamophobia that continues to haunt Indian Muslims, and the expansion of bilateral ties between Iran and Bangladesh.

In this edition of the subcontinent we will discuss how, with rising communal tensions in India, the use of bulldozers by government has caused wide-spread fear amongst the Muslim population of the country.