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- Abdul Quader Molla's life sentence handed down in February for crimes against humanity during Bangladesh's war of Liberation in 1971 didn't go down well among various sections of Bangladeshi … [Read More]

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Airtel Bangladesh, part of India's Bharti Airtel group, yesterday announced that it will launch a 3G 2100MHz mobile network in selected parts of Dhaka and Chittagong next month, before expanding the W-CDMA/HSPA service to Sylhet by November and all seven divisional headquarters of Bangladesh by December. Chris … [Read More]

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DHAKA, Bangladesh - Local media are reporting that Bangladeshi police have opened fire on supporters of the country's largest Islamic party, leaving one man dead. The party members are enforcing a general strike to protest a court ruling that a party leader should be executed for war crimes. The United News of Bangladesh says [...]

Human Rights Watch Thursday said the death sentence awarded to a Jamaat-e-Islami leader in Bangladesh for war crimes was a violation of international fair trial standards. The sentence against Abdul Qader Mollah “is based on the retroactive application of amended legislation after the conclusion of his trial and violates international fair trial standards”, it said. [...]

: Bangladesh police opened fire on opposition activists Thursday, killing one protester, on the second day of a nationwide strike over the death sentence given to a senior Islamist leader for mass murder. Police said the shooting occurred in the western town of Mujibnagar where 1,200 stick-wielding supporters of the country's largest Islamist party [...]

India and Bangladesh have vowed to stop killings on the border that separates the two countries. Chiefs of the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard of Bangladesh have agreed to take measures to prevent such untoward incidents in the border regions. BSF Director General Subhash Joshi assured Bangladesh that New Delhi had no [...]

A nationwide strike in Bangladesh has entered a second day after a senior Islamist leader was handed the death sentence for crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence against Pakistan. Thursday's strike was the latest to hit Bangladesh, which has been reeling from deadly violence over the sentences given to Jamaat-e-Islami party [...]

The death sentence against Abdul Qader Mollah, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party convicted of war crimes during the 1971 war of liberation, is based on the retroactive application of amended legislation after the conclusion of his trial and violates international fair trial standards to which Bangladesh is a party, Human Rights Watch said today. [...]

a World Bank study laid out many logistical reforms to improve the country's garment industry. An international outcry is now prompting some of those reforms, and could begin to change the logistics of the international clothing trade. In Bangladesh, the first step for the garment industry - which accounts for three-fourths of the [...]