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ISIS had deep links with Dhaka attacker, activities in B'desh could intensify
Documents show that the Islamic State group has built deeper connections with Bangladeshi militants than was previously known.
01 Dec 2016 12:59 PM
Famed 'Afghan Girl' to travel to India for free treatment
Gula arrived in Kabul last week days after she was detained by Pak authorities allegedly for obtaining fake Pak national identity card.
13 Nov 2016 1:38 PM
Communal harmony should be retained: Sheikh Hasina
As a Muslim majority country it is the moral responsibility of all of us to take care of the minorities, Bangladesh PM said.
12 Nov 2016 8:48 PM
Bangladesh arrests suspect in blogger, publisher murders
Detectives nabbed the 24-year-old, an intelligence wing leader of the banned outfit Ansar al-Islam from Dhaka's main railway station.
12 Nov 2016 3:06 PM
Gulshan Kumar murder convict out of Bangladesh jail
Bangladesh on Monday freed a top aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim on the expiry of his jail term for cross-border intrusion, sparking speculations about his extradition to India where he was conv
08 Nov 2016 6:33 AM
Fresh attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, houses torched
In fresh attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, unidentified miscreants set ablaze some of their houses and damaged two temples in central Brahmanbarhia district where several places of worship of the minor
06 Nov 2016 6:19 AM
15 Hindu temples in Bangladesh vandalised
At least, 15 Hindu temples in Bangladesh have been vandalised over allegations of disrespect shown to Islam on Facebook, triggering panic among the minority community in the Muslim-majority nation.
01 Nov 2016 12:57 AM
England stutter after Bangladesh collapse
Tamim Iqbal scored his eighth Test century before Moeen Ali took 5/57 to help England dismiss Bangladesh for 220 runs on the first day of the second Test on Friday.
28 Oct 2016 11:25 PM
2 Islamists shot dead in Bangladesh
Bangladesh police said on Tuesday they shot dead two members of the country’s largest Islamist party in gunfights, as a rights activist demanded an independent probe on concerns of extrajudicial killi
26 Oct 2016 6:58 AM
Re-elected party chief, Sheikh Hasina eyes third term
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was on Sunday re-elected unopposed as the ruling Awami League’s president, asked cadres to reach out to the people to ensure that the party returned to po
24 Oct 2016 4:26 AM
Debutant Mehedi Hasan, 18, puts England in a spin
Bangladesh's Mehedi Hasan Miraz holds the ball and his Test cap after taking five wickets on debut against England in the first Test match at Chittagong in Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)
21 Oct 2016 12:33 AM
Jamaat’s new leader has no war crimes taint
A Bangladeshi Islamist party allied to the Opposition has elected a new chief untainted by war crime allegations, seeking to turn the page after the execution of several of its top leaders.
19 Oct 2016 12:47 AM
Jos Buttler is ‘anxious’ about captaincy
England’s cricket captain Jos Buttler poses with the trophy after their series win over Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)
14 Oct 2016 12:33 AM
The architect of new design in old Bangladesh
As one of the only female architects in a country where women rarely even enter mosques, Marina Tabassum was an unconventional choice to design Bangladesh’s new Baitur Rouf Mosque, which has just won
05 Oct 2016 6:36 AM
26 killed in Bangladesh factory fire
At least 26 people were killed and more than 70 others injured on Saturday in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at a packaging factory in Bangladesh.
11 Sep 2016 11:13 AM
Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds Jamaat chief’s death term
Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party leader and key financier Mir Quasem Ali could be executed soon after Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence handed down to him for committ
31 Aug 2016 7:07 AM
Dhaka terror attack: Dead militants linked to attack identified
One of the three militants killed by Bangladeshi security forces on Saturday in connection with July’s Dhaka cafe attack came from a posh area of the city like some of the attackers and went to a pres
29 Aug 2016 7:13 AM
Dhaka cafe terror mastermind killed
The police in Bangladesh killed three suspected militants on Saturday, including an alleged mastermind of a major attack on a cafe last month that left 20 people dead.
28 Aug 2016 11:55 AM
Bangladesh attack ‘mastermind’ killed in police raid
Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the mastermind of Bangladesh’s worst terror attack at a cafe here that claimed 22 lives, including of an Indian girl last month, was on Saturday killed along with two of his aid
28 Aug 2016 7:26 AM
Suspect in murder of publisher held in Dhaka
The police arrested the main suspect in the killing of a publisher who was hacked to death by Islamist militants in October 2015, the head of the policecounter-terrorism unit in Dhaka said on Wednesda
25 Aug 2016 6:32 AM
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