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(RTTNews) - At least seven people were killed and over 50 others missing after an overcrowded ferry capsized in southern Bangladesh, said officials and local news reports on Friday.
A court in southwestern Bangladesh on Thursday found a cartoonist guilty of "hurting the religious feelings of the Muslim community" and sentenced him to two months of hard labour, a judge said.
(RTTNews) - Bangladesh police Thursday night arrested three suspected Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, a week after it arrested two operatives of the local Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) Islamist group and one of the LeT, in a stepped-up manhunt for Islmic militants, said to be plotting to attack offices of the Indian High Commission and the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police detained 18 illegal immigrants during a raid Sunday morning on a Kuala Lumpur nursing home, reports said Monday. The immigrant from Bangladesh and Indonesia were believed to have paid the owner of the nursing home betw...
Amnesty International called for Bangladesh to ensure accountability over its February mutiny and said that dozens if not hundreds suspected of involvement suffered torture.
Frankfurt - Adidas, the German sports-shoe company, confirmed Sunday plans to make one-euro shoes to offer to the poor and barefoot of the world, with pilot production to begin next year in Bangladesh. Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus sugges...
More than 300,000 people in Bangladesh, one of Asia's poorest but fastest-growing economies, have rushed to sign up to learn English over their cellphones, threatening to swamp the service even before its official launch Thursday.
Bangladeshis seeking to learn English and better their job prospects abroad need not look further than their mobile phone, which will feature brief lessons conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Dhaka - Bangladesh and India are poised to sign deals on fighting international terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking next month, officials said in Dhaka Saturday. The agreements are to be inked during a forthcoming visit by Bangladeshi Pri...
Bangladesh's young all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who has been lauded as one of cricket's brightest prospects, believes his country can soon lift itself into the top tier of the game.
India will clash with Bangladesh in the opening match of the 2011 World Cup in Dhaka on February 19, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Monday.
A convicted terrorist who plotted to support “violent jihad” has lost his bid for a new trial. Eshanul Islam Sadequee was convicted in August of sending homemade videos of U.S. landmarks to terrorists overseas. Raised in Georgia after his family emigrated from Bangladesh, the 23-year-old...
Bangladesh has sacked coach Adson Dido after the Brazilian named a controversial squad for next month's South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) championship.
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Bangladesh exports plunged by around 12 percent in the first quarter of the fiscal year as a delayed impact of the global recession routed the country's garment sector, the government said Monday.
BOSTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered why cholera outbreaks that occur once a year in Africa and Latin America occur twice a year in Bangladesh.
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