Around 2.5 lakh yards of chemically treated fabric have been damaged at Tithi Textile in Madhabdi, Narsingdi, after gas pressure remained at zero for the last four days, bringing production and generators to a halt, said Sonet Saha, the factory’s maintenance manager.

In the face of an acute natural gas scarcity, Bangladesh is witnessing the shutdown of key fertiliser plants, impacting hundreds of factories, including textile producers. This…

Bangladesh’s gas crisis has left the country’s once-busy Ashuganj fertiliser factory silent for more than a year, disrupting fertiliser production, forcing industries to cut…