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Authorities say 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 missing.
The report follows a rigorous approach to analysing commercial banking sectors around the world.
Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years.
All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan will become the first Bangladeshi to play county cricket in England after he agreed to join Worcestershire in 2010.
Australian doctors successfully separated joined-at-the-head Bangladeshi twins after more than 24 hours of surgery on Tuesday, saying the girls were "in great shape" but faced a difficult recovery.
Amnesty International Denounces Alleged Torture of Detainees and Calls on Authorities to Provide Fair Trials in Accordance with International Standards.
Two speeding buses have collided head-on on a highway in central Bangladesh, killing at least nine people and injuring 58 others.
The Supreme Court rejected final appeals today by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup, a government attorney said. The five can now petition the country's president for clemency in their last bid for life.
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has signed to play for Worcestershire next year, the English county announced on Wednesday.
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- GrameenPhone Ltd. , the Bangladesh telephone company controlled by Norway’s Telenor ASA , almost tripled on its trading debut in Dhaka.
It seemed like a good idea--because rivers and ponds in Bangladesh were contaminated with bacteria, Bangladeshis switched to wells. But soon after, in the early ‘80s, researchers realized those wells were harming Bangladeshis with a new poison--arsenic. The underground sediment of the Ganges Delta contains arsenic. In 2002 M.I.T. researchers determined that microbes digesting organic carbon were ...
Australian doctors successfully separated joined-at-the-head Bangladeshi twins after more than 24 hours of surgery on Tuesday, describing the moment as "surreal".
Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh, a study has found.
(WOMENSENEWS)--I grew up knowing my country, Bangladesh, was drowning. read more
Dhaka - Authorities on Monday put law enforcement agencies across Bangladesh on high alert ahead of the final verdict in the trial over the assassination of the country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a minister said. The lawmen have bee...
Dhaka - Bangladesh has set up six special military courts to prosecute over 3,000 paramilitary soldiers allegedly involved in a bloody mutiny in February, media reports said Monday. Two of the tribunals will deal with alleged mutineers at the Dhaka h...
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