Bangladesh

Bangladesh Foreign Secretary calls for swift conclusion of tripartite power agreement with India and Nepal

Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh Masud Bin Momen on April 17 emphasised the expeditious conclusion of...

world | 5 months ago

Bangladesh repatriates Myanmar troops after fighting on border

Bangladesh sent home nearly 300 Myanmar troops and civil servants on Thursday who fled across the bo...

world | 5 months ago

Cyclone hits Bangladesh as nearly a million flee inland for shelter

An intense cyclone smashed into the low-lying coast of Bangladesh on Sunday, with nearly a million p...

world | 4 months ago

Cyclone Remal hits Bangladesh and India, leaving destruction and death

Bangladeshi weather experts said on May 28 that a deadly cyclone that carved a swath of destruction ...

world | 4 months ago

Gunmen murder Rohingya teacher and student in Bangladesh

Gunmen in Bangladesh have killed a teacher and a student in a Rohingya refugee camp for refusing to ...

world | 4 months ago

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus indicted in Bangladesh embezzlement case

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others were indicted by a Bangladesh court on Wednesday on char...

world | 4 months ago

Former Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia on 'deathbed': BNP leader

Accusing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of a “personal political vendetta” against her predecessor and...

world | 3 months ago

Infamous hangman-turned-TikTok star dies in Bangladesh year after being released from prison

Bangladesh's deadliest executioner died Monday a year after he was released from prison where he han...

world | 3 months ago

Eight dead, two million affected by Bangladesh floods

The death toll from floods in Bangladesh this week has risen to eight, leaving more than two million...

world | 3 months ago

14 killed, 9 missing following flood and landslide in Nepal

Lashing rains in Nepal causing flash floods and landslides have killed at least 14 persons across th...

world | 3 months ago

Bangladesh, China sign 21 agreements, MoU as PM Hasina meets President Xi

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met President Xi Jinping and her Chinese counterpart Li Qian...

world | 3 months ago

Bangladesh suspends job reservations after student protests

Bangladesh's top court on July 10 temporarily suspended quotas for coveted government jobs after tho...

world | 3 months ago

5 killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota

At least five people were reported killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh on July 16 as student pro...

world | 2 months ago

Bangladesh's universities urged to close after 6 die in violent protests

Authorities in Bangladesh urged all universities to close on July 17, after at least six people died...

world | 2 months ago

India urges citizens in Bangladesh to stay indoors in advisory as deadly protests escalate

Indian High Commission in Dhaka issued an urgent advisory for members of the Indian community and st...

world | 2 months ago

Bangladesh students reject PM Sheikh Hasina’s olive branch after deadly protests

Bangladesh students vowed on July 18 to continue nationwide protests against civil service hiring ru...

world | 2 months ago