Typhoon Haiyan made landfall on November 8th 2013 and was the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing more than 6,000 people. Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, had sustained winds of 315 km/h making it the strongest typhoon ever to reach ...

When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore along the US Gulf coast in April 2010, it was against a backdrop of an existing crisis in the wetlands of Louisiana that was also largely fuelled by the oil and gas industries. Kael Alford's long-term ...

Kusum is 35 years old, and from the village of Pachapur, a remote spot in the Sangli district of the state of Maharashtra in western India. She is a widow living with HIV. Her husband died of AIDS-related causes in 2005. One of her children is HIV ...

In many families affected by AIDS elderly women are left to bring up their grandchildren. In Sangli, western India, Atul Loke often found that grandfathers took no part in looking after children, and the women were left to cope alone. As part of a wider ...

'That day, the 26th of November, will be etched in my memory. Like any other Mumbaikar, I was not prepared for the enormity of the events that unfolded over a long and gruelling 59 hours.I was at home watching the television when the news came. At first ...

By the mid 1960s, Charlie Chaplin - the man George Bernard Shaw called 'the only genius to come out of the movie industry' - was well into the twilight of his 75 year career. Having directed, produced, acted, edited and written sound scores for hundreds ...

India has never played in the Football World Cup and the sport struggles to attract anything even remotely similar to the enthusiasm which cricket, the national obsession is universally greeted with across the country. Yet every four years Kolkata, a...

To abolish child labour you first have to make it visible.Child labour has been forbidden in Bangladesh since 1992. 13 years later I visited a garment factory in Narayanganj, which is the centre of the country's textile industry. I took a picture of the ...

At least 275 people have been killed and millions have been displaced by cyclone Aila, which hit parts of coastal Bangladesh and eastern India on May 25th 2009. GMB Akash travelled to Shyamnagar Upazila, an area of Bangladesh's Satkhira district that has...

The funeral rites for the world's largest ships are read on the beaches of the Indian subcontinent. When a super tanker or a cargo vessel reaches the end of its useful life, it generally limps towards Chittagong in Bangladesh, Alang in India or ...

Nearly three thousand kilometres of railway track crisscross the delta lowlands of Bangladesh, connecting Dhaka, the capital, with Chittagong to the south-east and Calcutta to the south-west. The system was built largely by the British and began ...

The Tazreen Fashion textile factory on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh produced cheap fashion for a number of major European retailers including C&A. On 25 November 2012 it went up in flames, leaving 117 people dead and hundreds more scarred...

In one of India's poorest districts in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state, a remarkable movement of women has evolved over the past seven years which is challenging engrained power structures and bringing the concerns of some of the country's ...

Bangladesh lies squarely in the middle of the waterlogged floodplains of some of Asia's largest rivers and relies on water transportation to ship huge quantities of goods and vast numbers of people up and down the watery arteries that traverse the ...

When search teams scouring the collapsed Rana Plaza in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh ended their efforts to find survivors among the rubble of the former shopping centre and factory complex, a shocking 1,127 had been confirmed dead in...

In a country where less than a quarter of the population uses the internet and where access is both slow and expensive, Bangladesh's 'Info Ladies' offer a series of vital services to people living in remote, rural parts of the country. Launched by ...