Bangladeshi authorities should drop criminal charges against two senior members of the human rights group Odhikar and end the harassment of its workers, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said Thursday. Odhikar published a report on security forces abuses in June 2013. The international community should speak up and press [...]

The World Bank has approved $410 million to improve municipal governance and basic urban services in district towns and municipalities in Bangladesh, which will benefit 3.4 million people. According to a statement of the Washington-based bank received here Thursday, the project would provide financial support to 26 urban government bodies with high economic growth and [...]

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheik Hasina started her third term by placing a wreath at a shrine in Dhaka honoring her father, the country's founder.Hasina, 66, was accompanied at Sheik Mujibur Rahman's shrine by her ministers and advisers who make up the government's 49-member Cabinet, the Bangladesh Daily Star reported.Hasina, who was re-elected this month, condemned [...]

COLOMBO, Jan 15 AFP - Sri Lanka is to go ahead with a tour to Bangladesh later this month after carrying out its own security assessment in the violence-plagued country, cricket board officials say. "We are very positive about playing in Bangladesh," Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) secretary Nishantha Ranatunga told AFP. "We look [...]

Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia said Wednesday the country has been stripped of democracy and urged the country’s new government to reach a consensus through resuming dialogue to resolve the ongoing political turmoil. “Bangladesh has been stripped of democracy and that must return through a movement,” the Daily Star quoted Zia as telling journalists [...]

draw against South Zone, with heavy fog curtailing play to only thirty overs at the BKSP-3 ground. From their overnight second innings scored of 155 for 3, they ended the game on 341 for 7 in 70 overs. Mushfiqur struck his fifth first-class century, which included five sixes and eleven fours. [...]

Bangladesh’s opposition Wednesday reiterated its vow to unseat Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s new government with a popular movement. “We’ll continue (our) movement,” Xinhua quoted ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia as telling journalists Wednesday in her first media briefing after the formation of Hasina’s new cabinet followed by the Jan 5 parliament elections. She alleged that not [...]

Kevin Pietersen 's international future inched a little further towards some kind of resolution as Pietersen was named in England's 30-man squad for the … [Read More]

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A protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against attacks targeting Hindus following an election marred by violence, low turnout and an opposition boycott. Photograph: AM … [Read More]

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Sri Lanka Cricket have effectively ruled out Sylhet as a venue for their series in Bangladesh, with board vice-president Mohan de Silva saying Sylhet was not on his security committee's schedule. De Silva said the travel involved for the teams if Sylhet was a venue would be a security … [Read More]

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