Piash Ahamed has been living in New Jersey since legally emigrating from Bangladesh with his family as a child. He attended state public schools, graduated from high school at the top of his class and was accepted at Rutgers University.

The outer edge of Cyclone Bijli began lashing southern Bangladesh on Friday night, officials said, as the government ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from the country’s low-lying coast. Neighboring Myanmar was also bracing for the

Thousands of rare Irrawaddy dolphins have been found in Bangladeshi waters, a wildlife advocacy group said Wednesday, a hopeful sign for a vulnerable species found only in small numbers elsewhere.

A helicopter plucked survivors from the roof of Bangladesh’s biggest shopping mall Friday as a fire raced through the upper levels of the high-rise complex, killing at least four people and injuring at least 50 others.

A fire swept through Bangladesh’s largest shopping mall Friday, killing a security guard and sending frightened shoppers fleeing outside, officials said.

A fire swept through Bangladesh’s largest shopping mall Friday, sending frightened shoppers fleeing outside. At least 17 people were injured, local TV reported.

Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the video-sharing site YouTube that was imposed because of a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials after a bloody mutiny by border guards, an official said Thursday.

Bangladesh blocked access to the video-sharing site YouTube after it hosted a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials following a bloody mutiny by border guards, officials said Monday.

A team from the FBI will assist Bangladeshi police investigating last month’s bloody mutiny by border guards that killed more than 70 people _ mostly army officers, a government minister said Sunday.

Dead bodies were found stuffed inside manholes and buried in mass graves. The killers fired into the air above piles of corpses, the remains still dressed in their camouflage army officer uniforms.