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Radhika Vashisht and Sean Colin Young

The present year has been considered quite a special as it comes to the LGBT pride with a full circle of completing 50 years.

A splash of the rainbow

The month of June is known as the Pride month and this year being a special one as it has been 50 years of the LGBT Pride.

08 Jun 2019 7:15 AM

Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds tycoon’s death sentence

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami’s chief financier, imposed for war crimes, in a major blow to the country’s biggest Islamist party.

09 Mar 2016 1:40 AM

Bangladeshi activists celebrate after review petition relating to Motiur Rahman Nizami appeal against sentence was dismissed

Bangladesh High Court upholds death for Islamist

Bangladesh’s highest court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for the leader of the country’s largest Islamist party for crimes during its 1971 independence struggle, paving the way for his execut

06 Jan 2016 11:36 PM

Relatives of a man killed in Thursday’s attack on a mosque mourn during his funeral. (Photo: AP)

ISIS claims Bangladesh mosque attack

Gunmen opened fire in Shia mosque, killing muezzin, wounding 3 worshippers

28 Nov 2015 6:16 AM

Bangladeshi girls at a football training session. — AFP

Bangladesh village girls bend it like Beckham

Bangladeshi village football coach Mofiz Uddin only decided to form a girls’ team in 2011 out of frustration at the local boys’ failure to bring home any trophies.

14 Nov 2015 6:21 AM