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The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia. Complete Story...
The Supreme Court rejected final appeals Thursday by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup, a government attorney said.
A man in eastern Bangladesh, who was being questioned about a theft, surprised a court by confessing to killing 11 women in the past three years after a woman refused to marry him, police said Monday.
Bangladesh on Wednesday awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports. Mokhairul Islam, 40, won a first prize of a color television for killing some 83,450 rats in the past nine months in Gazipur district near the South Asian country's capital, Dhaka. He collected their tails for proof.
Authorities in southern Bangladesh are investigating whether a 13-year-old girl was forced to marry a 75-year-old man as a way to pay off her father's debt, local media reported Sunday.
Bangladesh has awarded three offshore blocks to two global energy companies to explore for gas in the Bay of Bengal, a senior energy official said Tuesday.
Landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains killed 10 people in southeastern Bangladesh on Friday, authorities said.
The heaviest rain in 53 years battered Bangladesh's capital Tuesday, leaving at least six people dead and stranding thousands in their swamped homes.
Bangladesh is setting clocks forward by an hour this weekend in its first-ever daylight savings time, aimed at easing a power shortage that causes frequent outages.
The outer edge of Cyclone Bijli began lashing southern Bangladesh on Friday night, officials said, as the government ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from the country's low-lying coast. Neighboring Myanmar was also bracing for the storm.
Security officials arrested eight suspected militants of a banned Islamic group on Sunday after raiding a house in Bangladesh's capital.
Two speeding passenger buses crashed into each other in southern Bangladesh on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and injuring another 50, a domestic news agency reported.
Police detained the head of a British-based charity on Monday that funded an Islamic school in southern Bangladesh where authorities seized weapons and explosives, an official said.
Impoverished Bangladesh will strictly enforce a new ban on begging that aims to fully eliminate it within five years, an official said Thursday.
Thousands of rare Irrawaddy dolphins have been found in Bangladeshi waters, a wildlife advocacy group said Wednesday, a hopeful sign for a vulnerable species found only in small numbers elsewhere.
When Aditi Mahmud and her family moved from Bangladesh to Los Angeles more than a decade ago, they landed in a gritty neighborhood that has long been a haven for Korean immigrants.
A helicopter plucked survivors from the roof of Bangladesh's biggest shopping mall Friday as a fire raced through the upper levels of the high-rise complex, killing at least seven people and injuring 50 others.
Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the video-sharing site YouTube that was imposed because of a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials after a bloody mutiny by border guards, an official said Thursday.
Dead bodies were found stuffed inside manholes and buried in mass graves. The killers fired into the air above piles of corpses, the remains still dressed in their camouflage army officer uniforms.
Bangladesh blocked access to the video-sharing site YouTube after it hosted a recording of a tense meeting between the prime minister and army officials following a bloody mutiny by border guards, officials said Monday.
Bangladeshi police said they arrested the suspected ringleader of a deadly insurrection by border guards, an attack the prime minister warned Tuesday was proof of "a conspiracy" against her fledgling government.
Mutinous Bangladesh border guards opened fire at their headquarters in the capital Wednesday and seized a nearby shopping mall, injuring several people in an insurrection apparently sparked by pay disputes, television reports said.
A small ferry carrying about 60 passengers capsized on a river in southern Bangladesh early Thursday, killing at least 27 people, officials said.
When night falls, the man told him, head for the boats.
A ferry boat sank Sunday after colliding with a larger ferry on a river in eastern Bangladesh, killing 10 women and children, police said.
DAWN.COM | Business | Pakistan slips five places in global corruption listISLAMABAD: In its Corruption Perception Index for 2009, the Transparency International has placed Pakistan at the 42nd place, slipping five places from 2008 when it was at 47.
Conjoined Twins Trishna, Krishna Separated Separation SurgerySurgeons have separated conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna in a marathon operation at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital.
Mystery of world's worst mass poisoning solvedResearchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday.
Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami Bangladesh founder heldMaulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, founder of Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HUJI-B) was arrested on Nov 2, 2009 in Dhaka for his involvement in the grenade attack on a rally organized by the Awami League (AL) on Aug 21, 2004 with the intent to assassinate Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh Police foils LeT plan to attack embassiesThe Bangladesh Police has busted a big Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) plot to blow up the Indian high commission in Dhaka.
B'desh Grapples With JMB, Its New AvatarsThe activists of the outlawed Jamiatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) are regrouping in certain pockets of the country abandoning their traditional hideouts after the arrest of their top IT and bomb experts a few weeks ago.
Reforming Islam From WithinIs a movement to reform Islam from within already here — and some of us do not even know it? On October 27, 2009, the well-known Muslim peace activist from Bangladesh, Shoaib Choudhury, arrived in New York City to give talks on the problem of jihad at several prestigious inst …
Wicket not ideal for ODIsApart from the coloured clothing it looked almost like a Test match was going on when Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan operated his slow bowlers with two slip fielders and the men at the silly positions during the fourth one-dayer against Zimbabwe at the Chittagong Divisional S …
Frustration at dire show"Everything is finished even before we settled in our seat.
Indian hegemony continues to harm relations with neighborsNobody can deny that today's India is a power. In recent years, Indians have become more narrow-minded and intolerable of outside criticism as nationalism sentiment rises, with some of them even turning to hegemony.
Indian interest in Pakistan's soft belly in Sindh India succeeded in creating Bangladesh after dismembering Pakistan into two halves in December 1971. In this RAW played a key role in polluting the minds of Bengalis under Mujibur Rehman against West Pakistan and instigating them to revolt and gain independence.
Women repression in Bangladesh unabated despite stringent lawIn 1985, the figure for women raped was, according to the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, 248; in the year of democratic transition, a very violent year, the figure was 407; the next year, it was 982, and by 1997 it had reached a high of 2,224.
India's `hegemony' is a threat, says China dailyIndia's "hegemony" poses a threat to its neighbours, says a premier Chinese daily, citing India's "recent provocation on border issues with China" as proof.
BBC NEWS | UK | Abused Asian men's lives 'living hell'By Sanjiv Buttoo Asian Network More South Asian men married to British women are becoming the victims of domestic violence, it has been revealed.
Bangladesh under acute threat from mostly First World-imposed man-made global warmingNS article: "the spectre of natural disaster looms largest over poor countries. The total number of floods, cyclones and storms has quadrupled in the past two decades. .. threat is acute in countries such as Bangladesh"
Statistics of Bangladesh in USABangladeshi's are immigrating to USA every year, but their number is very small compare to India, Mexico or other countries. According to the latest Census the Bangladeshi population in USA are more than 145,000.
British firm fined for corruption A British construction firm has been ordered to pay almost £5m after pleading guilty to overseas corruption and breaching UN sanctions. Mabey & Johnson tried to influence officials in Jamaica and Ghana when bidding for public contracts.
JMB plans liberated zones in BangladeshThe outlawed Jamiatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is regrouping. It has long abandoned traditional hideouts in Chapainawabganj, Naogaon and Rajshahi.
The Other Jihad: Islam's War on the HindusAt one billion people, Hindus, the majority of whom live in the Indian sub-continent, constitute the third largest religion in the world after two billion Christians and 1.5 billion Muslims.
Bangladesh Destroys Hinduism, BuddhismThe nation of Bangladesh is witnessing Islamization, just like Afghanistan in the distant past and currently now in Pakistan. It is clear that the Indian sub-continent flourished under both Hinduism and then Buddhism which came afterwards.
The World is acutely threatened by man-made global warming. Older people are peculiarly threatened and must act by (a) informing others, (b) supporting 100% renewables and (c) boycotting climate criminal nations, people.
Foreign Connections in BaluchistanWhile Pakistan has taken some meaningful steps to bring the perpetrators of Mumbai terrorist attacks to justice, India is using Afghanistan's territory to launch attacks in Baluchistan leading to further balkanize Pakistan.
Nepal Maoists misread PM Manmohan's security concernKATHMANDU: Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas have misread Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's security concern expressed at the conference of state directors-general of police in New Delhi on Tuesday, interpreting it to mean that India was alleging a link between them and Indian Maois …
Ridiculous article on 'Scoop'This ridiculous article fails to mention the connivance of foreign donors in the extrajudicial killings and torture. It says that Bangladesh is an independent country: what a hoot! Bangladesh is run by foreign powers, who allow two psychopaths to run the country in turn.
More Indian troops on China borderNEW DELHI: Is a repeat of the 1962 Sino-India war looming large? Though played down by the Indian government for diplomatic reasons, 30,000 additional troops - with weaponry and artillery support - are being rushed to the country's northeast region bordering China.
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