Locals try to extinguish a fire after Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activists set fire to a cotton store near Kamalapur railway station in Dhaka yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Andrew … [Read More]

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Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers are pictured at the scene after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013. (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty … [Read More]

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Authorities in Bangladesh should immediately investigate the role of a member of parliament in a physical altercation with two journalists on Saturday July 20, 2013, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on July 23.News accounts reported that Golam Maula Rony, a member of the ruling Awami League, and several unnamed individuals present at the politician's [...]

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni today proposed a Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin Regime that will go beyond the boundaries of Bangladesh and … [Read More]

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A five-member bench of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of holding the Bangladesh Cricket Board elections on the basis of its amended constitution. However, it said the legality of the subsequent elected BCB committee will depend on its final judgment in this case, as a leave to appeal petition [...]

Bangladeshi police have arrested the mayor of the town where a garment factory block collapsed, killing 1,129 people, for his role in approving the shoddy structure, an officer said … [Read More]

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REGENT Airways has expanded its wings beyond the borders of Bangladesh with its first international flight into Malaysia. The Bangladeshi airline, owned by HG Aviation Limited, a unit of Habib Group, used to operate only two Dash 8-300 aircraft to five domestic destinations within Bangladesh. Now, it departs from [...]

Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) bordering Myanmar. Sharing intelligence inputs "from the ground", the Union home ministry recently told Dhaka how Pakistani terror outfits like Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) were allegedly training Rohingya rebels in camps spread across the CHT for "launching revenge attacks" in Myanmar. During the just-concluded Indo-Bangladesh home secretary-level talks, … [Read More]

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Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni, who called on Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here on Friday, said the relationship between New Delhi and Dhaka is a comprehensive one. “We have cooperation in every possible sector and it has grown tremendously over the last four-and-a-half years. And there are still… pending issues that both countries [...]