DHAKA (Reuters) - Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia on Tuesday urged Bangladeshis to march to the capital Dhaka at the weekend to protest against what she called "farcical" elections on January 5, and declared: "Democracy is … [Read More]

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A $40 million fund was created to aid the families of victims of the garment factory building collapse in Bangaldesh that killed 1,100 people, officials said.The Bangladeshi government, several prominent retailers and labor groups joined together to create the fund to compensate the families of those killed and those injured in the April 24 collapse, [...]

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: Police detained a Bangladesh national after finding Syabu worth RM420,000 in his bag at a hotel lobby in Subang Jaya, last Thursday. Subang Jaya police chief ACP Yahaya Ramli said upon inspection, four packets of crystal pallets, believed to be Syabu weighing 3,638 grams, was found. "We detained the suspect who worked [...]

Bangladesh authorities should urgently set up an effective mechanism to protect witnesses in cases before the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Prosecution witness Mustafa Howlader died Dec 10 after being attacked in his home. Howlader appeared in the case against Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a leading figure in the Jamaat-e-Islaami party. “War [...]

President Abdul Hamid has said the Bangladesh Navy will soon get two submarines in its flee. He said the addition would be part of the government’s plan to develop Bangladesh Navy into a “three-dimensional” force. While listing induction of many other new modern equipment and vessels in the navy, including maritime patrol aircraft, and helicopters [...]

A compensation fund to benefit the victims of an April factory building collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people is being created. The fund, estimated at $40 million, would compensate injured workers and dependents of those who died. Retailers El Corte Ingles, Bonmarche, Loblaw and Primark have pledged to [...]

Nineteen Bangladeshi fishermen have returned to their homeland after completing three-year jail-term in India for having illegally entered the Indian territory, bdnews24.com reported. India’s Border Security Force (BSF) handed them over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Benaple frontiers Sunday night. The fishermen, aged between 22 and 40, were later taken to Benapole Land port [...]

The Bangladesh opposition party BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may announce tomorrow a fresh set of programmes including "non-cooperation" with the government till the January 5 general election. Addressing a press conference at her Gulshan office at 5:45pm, Khaleda will urge people regardless of their professions and classes to resist Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's move [...]

Garment industry workers demonstrate for compensation and the arrest of owners of the Tazreen factory, where more than 100 workers died in a fire a year ago in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 22, 2013. Eight months after a second disaster, the Rana Plaza factory collapse, killed more than 1,100, many of the survivors still live in [...]