Tag: Bangladesh

Each time he hears of the latest deadly machete attack, Ashraful Islam can’t help but think of his father’s gruesome murder and fear his...

Six men were sentenced to death in Bangladesh on Tuesday for killing eight people during a bank robbery in Dhaka last year that police...

At least 10 people have been killed and thousands injured in clashes between supporters and candidates of rival parties during the latest Bangladesh local...

Bangladesh police on Thursday charged a senior opposition official with sedition for allegedly plotting against the state when he met an Israeli government adviser,...

Daesh is trying to ride a wave of religious radicalisation by falsely claiming a spate of killings in Bangladesh, a government minister said, adding...

Cyclone Roanu struck the Bangladesh coast on Saturday killing six people and forcing hundreds of thousands more to flee their homes as the storm...

A fire in a textile factory in Bangladesh Saturday killed three workers and left five injured, police said, in the latest accident to cast...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday lashed out at Europe's silence over the execution of a veteran Islamist leader in Bangladesh, accusing the...

Lightning strikes have killed an unprecedented 59 people in Bangladesh in three days as tropical thunderstorms hit the country before the annual monsoon, an...

Bangladesh Thursday deployed thousands of police in the capital to prevent violence, after the main religious party called a nationwide strike to protest against...

Pakistan summoned on Thursday the acting high commissioner of Bangladesh over the hanging of top opposition leader Motiur Rahman Nizami in the country on...

The execution of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh’s top leader Matti ur Rehman took the centre stage in the 21st session of Punjab Assembly on Wednesday as...

Bangladesh executed top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for '1971 war crimes', the country's media reported on Tuesday. Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami...

  A local Sufi Muslim leader has been found hacked to death in Bangladesh in a suspected extremist killing, police said Saturday, two weeks after...

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death sentence of top extremist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes, paving the way for...

At least two assailants hacked a Hindu tailor to death in central Bangladesh Saturday, police said, amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities...

The killing of two gay rights activists in the Bangladeshi capital has driven the country's already secretive and small gay community underground, wondering if...