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Funny are the ways when the people that should have been rested much earlier are being rested rather late and those that perhaps still have the legs are being told to put their feet up on the couch. In yet another indication that Mahendra...
Stone-throwing protesters clashed with riot police and smashed vehicles Monday to demand the release of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who is being held on corruption charges, news reports said.
A Bangladeshi lawyer who works as a human trafficking expert for the United Nations has been released on bail while she appeals a three-year jail sentence on extortion charges, a prison official said Thursday.
A fire swept through a five-story building in a crowded section of Bangladesh’s capital Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring five others, rescue officials said.
A border clash Friday left two Bangladeshi troops dead and one Indian soldier seriously wounded, military officials said.The clash occurred when an Indian border patrol vessel tried to prevent cattle from being smuggled into Bangladesh on a boat, said...
A border clash Friday triggered by a smuggling attempt left two Bangladeshi troops dead and one Indian soldier seriously wounded, officials said.The clash occurred when an Indian border patrol vessel tried to prevent cattle from being smuggled into...
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh’s southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United Nations’ food agency said Sunday.The World Food Program said it had begun distribution of...
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh’s southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United Nations’ food agency said Sunday.The World Food Program said it had begun distribution of...
Two passenger buses collided head-on Monday in central Bangladesh, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more, a television station said.The two buses crashed in Comilla district, on a busy two-lane highway linking the capital, Dhaka, to the...
An aide says Bangladesh’s figurehead President Iajuddin Ahmed has been hospitalized with high fever.President Ahmed, 77, was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital late Monday for observation after suffering from a viral fever, Sirajul Islam,...
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.The United News of Bangladesh agency says the tiger...
Funny are the ways when the people that should have been rested much earlier are being rested rather late and those that perhaps still have the legs are being told to put their feet up on the couch. In yet another indication that Mahendra...
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...
Sheikh Hasina and the alliance are not in favor of conducting the popular elections on the scheduled date on January 22 polls. On the other hand, the interim President Iajuddin Ahmed has said that this is not possible to delay the elections for any...
Entering into the footsteps of the volatile Middle East, the South Asian countries seem to be destined to be those countries whom peace elude perennially.
Sri Lanka: The Tamil Tigers have stepped up violence and has refused to participate in any peace...
