Mr. Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA addressed Mr. Obama on 18 November and urged him not to forget the plight of women, men and children who...

In a surprise move, US president Barack Obama today telephoned Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Ethiopian premier Meles Zenawi to seek their support on...

An overcrowded passenger boat capsized in northern Bangladesh on Friday after being hit by a small ferry, leaving at least 47 people dead and several missing, police...

The death toll from the capsizing of a ferry over the weekend in southern Bangladesh rose Monday to 77 after rescuers recovered an additional 19 bodies. Rescuers...

A ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 dead and scores...

Bangladeshi twins are well and alive after unique surgery undertaken in Melbourne, Australia.

A man in eastern Bangladesh, who was being questioned about a theft, surprised a court by confessing to killing 11 women in the past three years after a woman refused...

Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and...

Cars pollute as soon as they are turned on, whether they are moving or sitting still in traffic. To blame air pollution on rickshaws because they slow down cars is...

It’s late morning and Minara Khatoon’s five young children haven’t eaten yet. They sit huddled on the dirt floor of their mud thatch hut, waiting as...

West Indies cricket players returned to work on Tuesday under an agreement that saw former Commonwealth Secretary General Sir Shridath Ramphal, appointed mediator in...

In Pakistan, Nepal, China, India and Bangladesh burning territorial and water disputes are interconnected and hanging with each other since their inceptions. The...

He also used to feed her acid. After all, he wanted a son. To demonstrate how rampant acid attacks against women and children are in Muslim-majority Bangladesh,...

Ishaal Zehra Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has said that the recent mutiny in the paramilitary force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) which killed 73 army officers was aimed...

It’s been more than 38 years since the war between two main regions of Pakistan, East and West, resulted in the political birth of East Pakistan Bangladesh. The...

Zeeshan Hasan is a Bangladeshi “leftist” businessman who is appealing to his people and asking them to step up their economic boycott of Israel. Zeeshan...

Former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, pulled out a landslide victory for her Awami League-led alliance winning 262 seats of the 300-member parliament in...

An alliance under Bangladesh’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina won a massive parliamentary majority in the country’s first polls in seven years,...

Bangladesh’s 81m voters go to the polls today amid fears that a vote intended to restore democracy after two years of de facto military rule will instead emerge...

The US presidential election was closely watched by many nations in the world. Bangladesh was not far behind. Bangladeshi blogs also followed the election: Shohail M...