Bangladesh

Bangladeshi-Swedish creator Taslima Nasreen over the ongoing violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. Taslima Nasreen said Hindu houses, temples, shops have been destroyed in Bangladesh, however, nobody has been brought to justice because PM…

DHAKA Protests erupted for a second day in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday, amid a wave of violence against local Hindus following a viral social media image perceived as insulting to the country’s Muslim majority. Some 10,000…

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh Bangladesh needs to send more than 80,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal after sealing an agreement for the United Nations to provide help, officials said today. Some 19,000 of the…

DHAKA The US-Bangla Airlines is all set to operate a direct flight to Maldives capital Male from November 19 as the first-ever Bangladesh carrier. The country's largest private service in phrases of the fleet number will operate three…

DHAKA Five Rohingya men have been arrested over the killing of a prominent community chief in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, police said Sunday, including that they have been probing links to a militant group. Mohib Ullah -- a…

DHAKA Bangladesh’s foreign minister vowed “stern action” today against the killers of Rohingya refugee leader Mohib Ullah as calls grew to investigate his shooting. Mohib Ullah, who was in his late 40s, was killed by unknown gunmen in…

COX'S BAZAR Unidentified assailants on Wednesday (Sept 29) shot dead a top Rohingya community leader during a refugee camp within the Bangladesh resort district of Cox's Bazar, officials said. Mohib Ullah was talking with other…

Dhaka A seven-year-old child was raped in Bhasan Char Rohingya camp . The victim's mother filed a case with the local police station accusing an unknown man on Sunday night. The incident took place when the kid , a resident of…

DHAKA, Bangladesh Bangladesh observes a 65-day-long ban to catch hilsa fish to permit its breeding, the continual fishing from the Indian side leaves this ban irrelevant, say experts. Hilsa is valued fish for the Bengali population…