Death toll reaches 10 in Bangladesh train collision
Railway workers in Bangladesh on Thursday untangled two trains that collided at a station just outside the capital Dhaka, as the death toll from the crash reached 10 with at least 60 people injured.
Pirates seize Bangla ship off Indian coast
Pirates have hijacked a Bangladesh-flagged ship in the Arabian Sea off the coast of India, Bangladeshi shipping officials said on Sunday.
Mass arrests ahead of Bangladesh opposition strike
The Bangladesh's main opposition party said on Monday that the police have arrested more than 1,000 opposition officials and supporters as part of a nationwide crackdown ahead of a planned protest str
BNP expels its vice chairman
Bangladesh's main opposition BNP has expelled its vice chairman Nazmul Huda, days after he criticised a nationwide protest call by the party against the eviction of its chief Khaleda Zia from her posh
B’desh hands over 3 suspected LeT operatives to Pak
Bangladesh has handed over three suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba operatives to Pakistan, a year after they were arrested on suspicion of plotting attacks on Indian and US embassies here, officials said on
B'desh oppo. gets assurance against Zia's eviction
The Bangladesh opposition on Saturday claimed to have secured an assurance from the country's chief justice against the eviction of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia from her government home till the
Bangladesh changes rules to detain 1971 war criminals
A tribunal in Bangladesh preparing to try former Islamist militants on the charge of killing unarmed civilians during the 1971 freedom movement has amended rules to facilitate their detention.
Training aircraft crashes in river in Bangladesh
A private training aircraft crashed into a major river in Bangladesh's northwestern region, and officials said one of the two pilots is still missing.
100 fishermen missing as cyclone hits Burma, Bangladesh
Over a 100 fishermen with 21 boats went missing from the northeastern reaches of the Bay of Bengal after cyclone Giri hit Burma and Bangladesh, authorities said Saturday.
3 killed, 50 injured as train rams into them in Bangladesh
At least three persons were killed and over 50 injured when a train rammed into them as they gathered on the railway track to join political rally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), reports said o