Human rights groups in Bangladesh and abroad are calling for an investigation after 16 borders guards accused of participating in a bloody revolt in February died in custody in recent days.
Bangladeshi authorities have suspended until Saturday morning efforts to find people who may have been trapped inside a massive shopping complex that caught fire Friday afternoon, a police official said.
The Bangladeshi army fanned out across the country Monday, hunting down paramilitary troops who fled their barracks in the capital, Dhaka, after a deadly uprising that killed dozens of their superiors.
Relief teams dug through rose gardens at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles Sunday, looking for more than 70 army officers still missing -- and presumed killed -- after a deadly uprising by paramilitary forces last week.
Army convoys are combing areas around the Bangladeshi border guard headquarters, vowing to punish participants in this week's bloody mutiny, which killed nearly 100 army officers and civilians, according to The New Nation newspaper.
Riaz Hussain rushes to the phone on the first ring. His family huddles around him, straining to hear what the voice on the other end of the line is saying.
At least 40 bodies -- all of them wearing uniforms identifying them as army officers -- have been found in a mass grave inside the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles paramilitary in the capital, Dhaka, authorities said Friday.
The rebellion by paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles troops apparently ended Thursday after they handed over their weapons inside their headquarters in the capital city's Pilkhana district, the national press agency quoted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as saying in a nationwide televised address.
Human rights groups in Bangladesh and abroad are calling for an investigation after 16 borders guards accused of participating in a bloody revolt in February died in custody in recent days.
Bangladeshi authorities have suspended until Saturday morning efforts to find people who may have been trapped inside a massive shopping complex that caught fire Friday afternoon, a police official said.
The Bangladeshi army fanned out across the country Monday, hunting down paramilitary troops who fled their barracks in the capital, Dhaka, after a deadly uprising that killed dozens of their superiors.
Relief teams dug through rose gardens at the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles Sunday, looking for more than 70 army officers still missing -- and presumed killed -- after a deadly uprising by paramilitary forces last week.
Army convoys are combing areas around the Bangladeshi border guard headquarters, vowing to punish participants in this week's bloody mutiny, which killed nearly 100 army officers and civilians, according to The New Nation newspaper.
Riaz Hussain rushes to the phone on the first ring. His family huddles around him, straining to hear what the voice on the other end of the line is saying.
At least 40 bodies -- all of them wearing uniforms identifying them as army officers -- have been found in a mass grave inside the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles paramilitary in the capital, Dhaka, authorities said Friday.
The rebellion by paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles troops apparently ended Thursday after they handed over their weapons inside their headquarters in the capital city's Pilkhana district, the national press agency quoted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as saying in a nationwide televised address.
At least 50 officers and civilians were feared dead after Bangladeshi paramilitary troops staged a mutiny, taking dozens of high-ranking officers and military brass hostage, the country's law minister said Thursday.
At least 24 day laborers who had hitched a ride on a truck loaded with iron rods were killed Sunday when the vehicle flipped over into a ditch, impaling some and crushing others under the weight of its load, police in northern Bangladesh said.
South Africa face an uphill battle in the second Test against Australia in Melbourne after struggling to 198 for seven on the second day -- still trailing by 196 runs.
A British-based doctor has been freed by the courts in Bangladesh after being held captive by her family and put under pressure to marry against her will, media reports said Monday.
A train slammed into a packed bus at an unmanned railway crossing in central Bangladesh early Wednesday morning, killing 17 people and injuring 25 others.
An airliner flying from Malaysia to Bangladesh made an unscheduled landing Tuesday after a knife-wielding man attacked other passengers, a Thai immigration official said.
South African left-arm spinner Robin Peterson took a career-best five for 33 in an overwhelming innings and 205-run defeat of Bangladesh in Chittagong. which completed a 2-0 series triumph.
Overburdened relief centers scrambled to help tens of thousands of cyclone survivors Wednesday, and fist fights broke out among victims waiting for rice at a food distribution center.
More than 1,700 people have died in Bangladesh after a devastating tropical cyclone ripped through the western coast of the country, and the toll is expected to rise, a government spokesman tells CNN.
If you saw a plastic bag floating on the wind it might stir up dreamy thoughts of the much-parodied scene from the 1999 film American Beauty. But as the bag flutters, swoops and then wraps itself around your face, any sense of inner peace would be quickly shattered, leaving you with the more rational thought that billowing plastic bags are a depressing blight on our urban and rural landscapes.
Police arrested former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and one of her sons Monday on charges of corruption and misuse of power during her last term in office, news reports said.
Traffic returned to the streets, and residents crowded markets in Bangladesh's six largest cities Friday after the military-backed government temporarily lifted a curfew imposed to quell violent student protests.
Clashes between Bangladeshi police and students demanding an end to emergency rule spilled into the streets of the capital Wednesday, prompting the government to impose an indefinite curfew.
Bangladesh's army-backed interim government briefly relaxed a curfew on Thursday, allowing residents of the capital the chance to stock up on essentials and those stranded at airports and elsewhere to return home.
Angry students burned an army van and damaged at least 50 vehicles during fresh violence with security forces at Bangladesh's Dhaka University on Tuesday, witnesses said.
Eighteen thousand Bangladesh cricket fans were left disappointed when their team's third one-day international against India, in Chittagong, was abandoned without a ball being bowled after heavy overnight rain.
Along a dirt road in Bangladesh's green, fertile heartland, 140 miles northwest of Dhaka, workers in flip-flops are hauling bricks, pouring cement and hammering boards. The object of their labor: a...
Fire engulfed an 11-story office building housing several media outlets in a Dhaka business district Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 200 others, authorities said.
Bangladesh's former central bank governor, Fakhruddin Ahmed, was sworn in Friday as the head of a new interim government, an official at the presidential palace said.
Activists and police clashed in Bangladesh on Sunday, injuring at least 50 people at the start of a three-day transport blockade aimed at derailing upcoming elections.
Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed huddled with the four major political parties in the country Sunday in an attempt to name a new leader for the interim government after the original man chosen for the job withdrew amid deadly rioting over his appointment the day before, a presidential palace spokesman said.
It all started with $50. In 1988, that's what it took Noni Bala Ghosh to revive her family's business of making sweets to sell in Kholshi, her tiny village in Bangladesh.
You've been in hotels more than you've been at home. You've been commuting between San Francisco and New York lately. And you're wiped out. But there's that big meeting or gig to prepare for.
A Bangladeshi opposition activist was shot to death and a police officer was beaten to death Sunday morning in violent clashes between police and activists in the capital, Dhaka, an opposition official said.
The leader of an Islamic militant group blamed for several bombings across Bangladesh surrendered Thursday, a senior government security official said.
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 21 Islamic militants to death for their roles in a series of bomb attacks across the country six months ago, according to a government official.
A six-story building housing a garment factory collapsed Saturday in Dhaka, Bangladesh Saturday, killing at least 18 people, seriously injuring more than 50 and trapping more than 300, fire officials said.
Kenyan police shot at hundreds demonstrating against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, wounding at least one person, as protests continued across the Muslim world.
People from all around the world have gathered in Hong Kong to protest against policies of the World Trade Organization. But just what drives these people to make such a big commitment?
A series of bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in dozens of cities across Bangladesh Wednesday, striking regional capitals as well as the national capital, Dhaka, authorities said.
A woman died and 49 people were missing after a passenger ferry collided with a docked ferry and capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh, local police said.
At least 118 people were killed and many others were still missing after a tornado capsized an an overcrowded ferry in the Buriganga River near Dhaka, rescuers said Monday.
A ferry boat with 260 people on board capsized overnight when it was hit by a tornado near the Bangladesh capital, drowning at least 83 people, local officials said.
Insurgents hurled grenades at Bangladesh's former finance minister, Shah AMS Kibria as he spoke at a political rally Thursday, killing the opposition lawmaker and at least three others.
Opener Nafis Iqbal made his first test century to help Bangladesh draw the second test against Zimbabwe in Dhaka and and record a first-ever series triumph by 1-0.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
Leg spinner Anil Kumble became India's highest test wicket-taker by grabbing his 435th and 436th scalps on the opening day of the first test match against Bangladesh.
India's government gave the go-ahead for their cricket team's tour to Bangladesh after officials checked out security precautions in Dhaka following a threat from a militant group.
Bangladesh police have recovered two bombs in the capital, Dhaka -- one of them similar to grenades used in Saturday's assassination attempt on the country's former prime minister, which killed 19 and wounded over 300 others.
Several grenades exploded near former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she spoke at a party rally Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding hundreds, police and witnesses said.
Flood-stricken Bangladeshis will receive their first major overseas food aid deliveries on Wednesday after the worst rains in six years killed over 600 and displaced millions of people.
More than two weeks after a heavy bout of monsoon rains caused flash floods in several parts of South Asia, officials are still grappling with rescuing people and airlifting aid to millions cut off by the floods.
Relatives of scores of people feared drowned in Bangladesh have been lining the banks of a river where two ferries sank as hopes faded that more survivors would be found.
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