A Bangladeshi student intent on terrorism has been sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. prison after admitting he tried to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New … [Read More]

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Captain Sami Aslam almost single-handedly set up Pakistan Under-19s' eight-wicket win over Bangladesh Under-19s in the triangular series at Market Harborough. His unbeaten century led his side to their second win in the tournament and put them at the top of the points … [Read More]

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A 22-year-old Bangladeshi man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism charges for trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Quazi Nafis was sentenced Friday. He pleaded guilty in February after a government sting operation last fall. Investigators say Nafis selected his target, [...]

Bangladesh today as the country's main opposition party enforced a dawn-to-dusk general strike.Thousands of riot police were deployed in cities across the country. The Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) said the strike was called to protest against misrule by the government, harassment of its supporters, and a court decision to pursue the eviction of its leader, [...]

UAE will host the World Twenty20 Qualifiers scheduled to take place between 15 and 30 November, from which six of the 16 teams will progress to the main tournament in Bangladesh next year, with Ireland and Afghanistan favourites to qualify. According to The Nation, the second placed team from group A will play the third [...]

At least 17 people were killed and about 30 others injured as a goods laden truck and a night passenger bus collided head on in Bangladesh's Shajahanpur sub- district of Bogra district, 197 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, on Thursday morning.Police was quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that the Dhaka bound [...]

Bangladeshis packed into - and onto - trains in the capital Dhaka tonight as they raced home to break their last fast of Ramadan. The annual Muslim fasting period has come to an end and these commuters were trying to get home as quickly as possible to prepare for the festival of [...]

The holy Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated across Bangladesh on Friday as the new crescent moon of the month of Shawwal was sighted Thursday. The biggest religious festival of Muslims will be observed on Friday, said the National Moon Sighting Committee after reviewing reports on moon sighting in the country's sky. The largest Eid [...]

IndustriALL estimates the long-term compensation cost for the two Bangladesh disasters will be $71 million for the Rana Plaza collapse and $5.7 million for the Tazreen Fashions … [Read More]

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signed the Europe-led and union-backed safety upgrade plan for Bangladesh’s garment factories. A spokesman for the company told Reuters that it took this long to join the agreement because it wanted to ';thoroughly consider the pact’s conditions.'; Its clothes were not manufactured in Rana Plaza, the factory that collapsed in April and killed 1,132 [...]