Bangladesh Customs Hit Gold Bonanza In Unlikely Places
Bangladesh detectives hit the jackpot when they stopped Mohammad Belal at Chittagong airport carrying some surprising excess baggage. Under questioning, ...
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Armed With Fizz and Self-Belief, Bangladesh Seek A Champions Trophy…
With a fiery new bowler named Fizz leading the young guns and all-rounder Mushfiqur Rahim the old guard, Bangladesh are ...
Jayawardene Named Coach of Bangladesh League Team
Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene was Friday named as the head coach of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) side ...
Bangladesh Removes ‘Greek’ Statue After Islamists’ Protests
Bangladesh Friday removed a controversial statue which religious radicals claim represents an "un-Islamic" Greek goddess from outside the country's highest ...
‘Panic’ In Bangladesh Factories As Workers Collapse In Heatwave
Panic broke out in more than a dozen factories in Bangladesh's capital as hundreds of garment workers fell ill in ...
Bangladesh Jails High-Profile Islamist Leader
A Bangladesh court Thursday jailed a senior Islamist militant for more than seven years for leading an extremist group blamed ...
Bangladesh Police Raid Opposition Leader’s Office
Bangladesh police swooped on the offices of the country's main opposition leader hunting "anti-state documents" on Saturday, sparking angry protests ...
Bangladesh Police Arrest 27 Youths Over Homosexuality
Bangladeshi police arrested 27 young men early Friday in a rare crackdown on homosexuality in the conservative Muslim-majority country, where ...
Bangladesh ‘militants’ Killed In Police Raid
Bangladeshi police have carried out a string of raids on suspected militants in recent weeks Police in Bangladesh say five ...
Greenpeace Warns Giant Bangladeshi Coal Plant Could Cause Early Deaths
A giant coal-fired power plant approved by Bangladesh could drastically worsen air pollution for millions and cause the early deaths ...
Bangladesh Coal Plant Could Cause 6,000 Early Deaths
A giant coal-fired power plant approved by Bangladesh could drastically worsen air pollution for millions and cause the early deaths ...
Bangladesh Ban Bowler For Conceding 92 Off Four Balls
Bangladesh on Tuesday imposed a 10-year ban on a bowler who deliberately lost a match by conceding 92 runs off ...
Bangladeshi Girl With Three Legs ‘walks, Runs’ After Australia Surgery
A toddler born with three legs -- because body parts of a twin had grown inside her -- was returning ...
Bangladesh Islamists Blow Themselves Up, Ending Standoff
Four suspected Islamist fighters blew themselves up at a hideout in Bangladesh, ending a 24-hour standoff, police said Friday. Police ...
Islamic Romance Novels Set Hearts Aflutter In Bangladesh
Kasem bin Abubakar was told nobody would buy his chaste romance novels about devout young Muslims finding love within the ...
Bangladeshi Workers Mark Four Years Since Factory Collapse
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers staged a tearful demonstration Monday to mark the anniversary of a factory disaster that killed ...
Bangladesh Buries Islamist Extremists After Hanging
Bangladeshi villagers buried the leader of a banned Islamist extremist outfit and two of his aides early Thursday, hours after ...
Bangladesh Hangs Three Islamist Extremists For UK Envoy Attack
Bangladesh hanged three Islamist extremists including the leader of a banned militant outfit on Wednesday, after they were sentenced to ...
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 ...
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 ...