Bangladesh

Cyclone Fani Destroys More than 1,000 Homes in Bangladesh

More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in Bangladesh as Cyclone Fani hit the Asian country. At least five people…

6 years ago

Bangladesh: Former PM Khaleda Zia Jailed for Five Years for Corruption

Former Bangladeshi PM Khaleda Zia has been sentenced to five years in jail for corruption. Police have clashed with thousands…

7 years ago

Niloy Neel: Bangladeshi Secularist Blogger Murdered in Dhaka

Bangladeshi secularist blogger Niloy Neel has been killed by a gang armed with machetes in the capital Dhaka, police say.…

9 years ago

Rana Plaza Collapse: 42 Charged with Murder over Bangladesh Factory Disaster

The owner of the Rana Plaza complex has been charged with murder over the Bangladeshi building's collapse in 2013, killing…

9 years ago

Ananta Bijoy Das: Third Secular Blogger Killed in Bangladesh

Secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das has been killed in north-eastern Bangladesh in the country's third such deadly attack since the…

10 years ago

Avijit Roy murder: Mukto-Mona blogger killed in Bangladesh

Founder of Mukto-Mona blog Avijit Roy, whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners, has been killed in…

10 years ago

Khaleda Zia: Bangladesh court orders opposition leader arrest

A warrant for the arrest of Bangladesh’s opposition leader Khaleda Zia has been issued amid a political stand-off in the…

10 years ago

Bangladesh to lower marriageable age for men and women

Bangladesh’s government has proposed measures to lower the marriageable age for men and women, while significantly toughening the penalty for…

10 years ago

Bangladesh ferry carrying 200 passengers capsizes near Dhaka

A Bangladeshi ferry carrying about 200 passengers has capsized south-west of capital Dhaka, officials say. The bodies of two people…

10 years ago

Bangladesh election 2014: Clashes in boycotted poll

Bangladeshi opposition activists and police clashed as the country is holding a general election boycotted by the opposition. At least…

11 years ago

Bangladesh opposition in 3-day strike over government’s failure to set up caretaker cabinet

Bangladesh's main opposition party and its allies have decide to begin a three-day strike over the government's failure to set…

11 years ago

Abdul Kader Mullah: Bangladeshi Islamist leader gets death penalty for war crimes

Bangladesh's Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Islamist leader Abdul Kader Mullah against his jail term for war crimes…

11 years ago

Cyclone Mahasen hits Bangladesh’s southern coast killing at least two people

Cyclone Mahasen has stricken Bangladesh's southern coast, as people packed into evacuation shelters. The storm hit Patuakhali district on Thursday…

12 years ago

Cyclone Mahasen prompts massive evacuation from Bangladesh coastal areas

Bangladesh has ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from its coastal areas threatened by Cyclone Mahasen. The…

12 years ago

Bangladesh: At least 3 people die during clashes between police and Hefajat-e-Islam protesters in Dhaka

At least three people died and other 60 have been injured during clashes between police and Islamist protesters of Hefajat-e-Islam…

12 years ago

Dhaka building collapse: Garment factories owners arrested as death toll rises to 336

Bangladeshi police has arrested two owners of garment factories in the building that collapsed on the outskirts of the capital…

12 years ago

Dhaka building collapse kills at least 70 people in Bangladesh

An eight-storey building collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, killing at least 70 people and injuring other 200, government officials…

12 years ago

Missing Moslemuddin Sarkar reunited with his family after 23 years

Moslemuddin Sarkar, a Bangladeshi man who went missing for 23 years, has been reunited with his family, who had given…

12 years ago

Two Bangladeshi TV journalists stabbed to death at their home in capital Dhaka

Two well-known Bangladeshi television journalists have been stabbed to death in the country’s capital, Dhaka, and their bodies have been found by…

13 years ago