Bangladesh Islamists To Hang After President Rejects Pleas
A top Islamist extremist under sentence of death has lost his last hope of avoiding the gallows after Bangladesh's president ...
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India Agrees $4.5 Billion Deal With Bangladesh In New Delhi Meeting
India and Bangladesh signed a slew of agreements on Saturday, including a $4.5 billion concessionary line of credit from India ...
India Woos Bangladesh With $500 Mn Defence Loan, Credit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday offered $4.5 billion in concessional loans to Bangladesh, underlining surging ties between the ...
Smoking Causes One In 10 Deaths Worldwide, New Study Shows
Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, a new study shows, half of them in just four countries – China, ...
Malinga Hat-Trick Restricts Bangladesh To 176-9
Lasith Malinga became only the fifth bowler in the history of Twenty20 internationals to claim a hat-trick as Sri Lanka ...
Bangladesh Closes One of World’s Most Polluted Places
A historic leatherworking quarter in Bangladesh once labelled among the most polluted places on earth was shut Thursday as police ...
Aung San Suu Kyi: No Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Muslim Minority
Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports ...
Smoking Causes One In 10 Deaths Worldwide, Study Shows
Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, a new study shows, half of them in just four countries - China, ...
No Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Muslim Minority
Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports ...
Suu Kyi Denies Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Minority
Aung San Suu Kyi has denied the ethnic cleansing of Myanmar's Muslim minority, speaking to the BBC after the UN ...
Bangladesh Skipper Mashrafe Quits Twenty20 Cricket
Bangladesh's limited-overs captain Mashrafe Mortaza announced on Tuesday his retirement from Twenty20 international cricket after he completes the ongoing two-match ...
Bangladesh Bat First Against Sri Lanka In T20
Bangladesh cricketers run off the pitch as rain stops play during the first T20 international match between Sri Lanka and ...
S&P Cuts South Africa’s Credit Rating To ‘junk’
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded South Africa's rating to junk status on Monday, as the country's currency continued ...
Sri Lanka Skipper Mathews Out of Rest of Bangladesh Series
Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews will miss the remaining fixtures of Bangladesh's tour after being ruled out of the Twenty20 ...
Bangladesh Skipper Suspended For Slow Over Rate
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has been suspended for one match for a slow over rate during the third one-day international ...
Bangladesh Pick Uncapped All-Rounder For Twenty20s
Bangladesh on Sunday named uncapped all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin in a 16-man squad for two Twenty20 internationals against Sri Lanka in ...
Top Bangladesh Army Officer Dies From IS-Claimed Blast
A senior army officer who headed the intelligence wing of Bangladesh's elite security force died Friday, days after he was ...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Defends First Year In Power
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi defended her civilian government's first year in power in a rare public address on Thursday, ...
Bangladesh Police Storm Hideout, Find Up To Eight Bodies
Bangladesh security forces found the scattered body parts of up to eight people including women and possibly children when they ...
Myanmar Rohingya Militants Call For Peacekeeping Troops
A nascent Rohingya militant group whose raids triggered a bloody crackdown by Myanmar's army called Wednesday for international peacekeepers to ...