Bangladesh News

DHAKA: Speakers at a seminar yesterday said referring to a World Bank study that environment pollution is responsible for 22 percent of all deaths from diseases in Bangladesh.

DHAKA: United Airways launched its flight to London yesterday, the first by a private airline in Bangladesh.

Moira Kelly, left, with Daniella Noble, the woman who found the twins at a Dhaka orphanage in 2007, standing next to separated twin Trishna at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne on Saturday Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna appeared yesterday to have beaten the odds with their miracle story of survival, both awaking from ...

Dhaka, Nov 22 : Bangladesh is to begin Tuesday the trial of over 3,500 border guards who staged a mutiny in February killing 74 people.

Four of the five former army officers who were sentenced to death for killing Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will seek the presidential pardon, jail officials announced Sunday.

Like several other banned groups JMB want to turn mostly Muslim Bangladesh of 150mn people to a Shariah-based Islamic country.

It's nothing short of a Bollywood love story. India's Zubair Khan and Bangladesh's Shazia Zarin met on Facebook, fell in love, she fled from home, they got married and are expecting a child.

BARGUNA, : Two years after Cyclone Sidr hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disasters, officials say.

Bangladesh is determined to nab six former army officers linked to the assassination of founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who are believed to be living in foreign countries ranging from Pakistan to the US.

A second Bangladeshi twin began returning to consciousness on Friday, three days after being separated from her conjoined sister in a landmark operation in Australia, the hospital said.

Bangladesh could meet 40 percent of its soybean oil demand by producing Soybean locally, as there is a bright prospect for its farming.

VATICAN CITY, 18 NOV 2009 - The Holy See Press Office released the following communique at midday today: "At the end of his general audience today, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Stocks bounced back yesterday as the market reacted positively to the verdict on the Bangabandhu killing case that was announced during the early trading hours.

Dhaka, Nov. 19: Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentences on five former army officers convicted of assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a 1975 coup, taking the penultimate step in a 34-year-old saga that has bitterly divided the country.

After agreeing to a rail link between Nepal and Bangladesh, will India allow the two countries to use that?It didn't happen in 1976 when Bangladesh and Nepal signed a transit agreement for boosting bilateral trade but failed to implemented it as India did not allow its territory to be used for passage at that time.

GUWAHATI: The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom has set up bases in China and other foreign countries with the help of money extorted in the state, two senior ULFA leaders have told police interrogators.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the High Court verdict that confirmed death sentences of 12 retired and dismissed army men in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mijubur Rahman assassination case.

Following is the list of those who were brutally killed on the fateful night of August 15, 1975 are: 1) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Begum Fazilatunnesa - wife of Bangabandhu Sheikh Kamal - Bangabandhu's eldest son Sultana Kamal Khuki - wife of Sheikh Kamal Sheikh Jamal - Bangabandhu's second son Parveen Jamal Rosy - Sheikh Jamal's wife Sheikh ...

Melbourne - Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna are set to wake up "soon", just two days after marathon surgery in Australia to separate their conjoined heads, the hospital said on Thursday.

New Delhi, Nov 18 : Bangladesh Power Secretary Abul Kalam Azad is visiting New Delhi on Wednesday to hold a preliminary round of energy cooperation talks ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit next month.