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Misinterpretation of Islamic laws is creating endless problems in rural Bangladesh, especially for women who have become victims of ‘talaq’ pronounced by husbands in a fit of anger and who later repent and want to be reunited with their wives, say...
A baby girl was pulled from the rubble unharmed Sunday after a landslide destroyed her family’s home in southern Bangladesh, killing her parents and two older siblings, an official said.
An aide says Bangladesh’s figurehead President Iajuddin Ahmed has been hospitalized with high fever.
A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world’s largest mangrove forest in southwestern Bangladesh.
When Bangladesh’s military-backed government arrested more than 10,000 people, human rights activists denounced it as a political crackdown six months ahead of elections at the end of this year meant to restore elected government.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized Bangladesh’s military-backed interim government for alleged wholesale arrests of political activists.
Bangladesh’s military-led security forces said Wednesday they have detained more than 10,000 people in a nationwide anti-crime drive over the past week, but political parties accused the government of targeting their members in a political crackdown.
Authorities say police have detained more than 10,000 people in a nationwide anti-crime drive over the past week in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s Health Ministry says the nation’s first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected.
Senior editors and journalists from more than a dozen leading Bangladesh newspapers and television stations have demanded an end to the country’s state of emergency and called for greater press freedom.
Two trains collided Wednesday in eastern Bangladesh, killing at least eight people, a railway official said.
Is democracy the final solution that the west has to offer to the developing countries as some sort of a broad-spectrum antibiotic for alleviating a myriad of social, political and economical problems and escalating development? While democratic ideals...
It was recently pointed out that Bangladesh is being run by Mafioso-style leaders who do not care for the poor. Terrorists wax eloquent about the larger causes they profess to espouse, only to choose murder as the right path to silence all...
Accumulated low pressure over the Bay of Bengal resulted in storms and cyclones in neighbouring Bangladesh causing widespread damage to life and property. Windspeeds of 150 mph slammed the country’s south-east coast on Thursday and left 41 people...
Over the years, in every religious society, women have always been considered as physically and mentally subordinate and unproductive to men. The trend might have reduced somewhat in the 21st century due to the advent of media, women commissions, NGOs,...
The PEPY Ride, a New York state registered Non-for-Profit Corporation founded in 2005 works in the areas of providing humanitarian aid, improvement of levels of education in Cambodia, has been chosen as the in-country partner to assist the Asian...
The whole Asian continent is going through a tough phase now-a-days. Political and violent upheavals are the marked features of this week. As Pakistan is to face the presidential elections, Burma remains under sharp UN vigil whereas violent incidents...
Taslima Nasrin was a relatively low-profile Bengali Bangladeshi writer until the publication of her ground breaking novel Lajja (Shame) in1993. That was the precise moment when a string of controversies was conceived and Nasrim rocketed into the...
Floods are an annual feature in Bangladesh. There is a lot of damage to life and property. Roads and rail lines are washed away. Crops are destroyed. Homes are washed away.
Fertile top soil is eroded which decreases yield of land. In other words...
The University of Dhaka in the capital of Bangladesh appears quite serene and placid at first glance. With its stately, tree-lined campus and the atmosphere of a truly great education institution, the University does provide a brilliant panorama. But...
Upsetting news for the Windies as they become the first team to be knocked out of cricket’s World Twenty20. Eliminating India from the first round of the 50 over World Cup a few months ago, Bangladesh inflicted the same wound on the Windies who...
Villagers try to salvage parts of a school building which have been eroded by the Jamuna River, in Natiapara, about 140 kilometers (88 miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 5, 2008. Thousands of Bangladeshis living near river banks are...
