A total of 688 cadets, including 71 cadets from Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Maldives passed out of the Indian Military Academy on Saturday in the presence of Defence Minister A.K.Antony and Chief of Army Staff General Bikram Singh. The highest number of cadets was from Uttar Pradesh (61), followed by Haryana (47) and Uttarakhand [...]

Bangladesh on Saturday paid homage to victims, including the deceased intellectuals who were killed by the Pakistani forces and their collaborators during the 1971 liberation war. People held the Bangladesh national flag and black flags, and gathered at the memorial to pay tribute to the victims. Leader of Opposition Begum Khaleda Zia laid wreath at [...]

Jamaat-e-Islami leader on Saturday rose to 10, even as Islamists set afire the house of a federal minister in the country's northwest. Abdul Quader Mollah, known as the "Butcher of Mirpur" for atrocities committed during Bangladesh's 1971 liberation war, was hanged on Thursday night after the Supreme Court rejected his review petition. He was the [...]

Additional Attorney General and prosecutor, International War Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh, Saif-ul-Islam, has hailed the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Abdul Quader Mollah, accused of war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. The decision to hang Mollah, a senior figure in the Jamaat-e-Islami party that is a key part of the opposition [...]

A RARE riot broke out in Singapore's Little India neighbourhood, apparently after a Bangladeshi worker was hit and killed by a bus. Channel News Asia showed dramatic pictures of burning vehicles and people attacking the windshield of a bus with sticks and garbage bins on Sunday night. It was not clear if [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is strongly urging Bangladesh's prime minister and opposition leader to hold immediate talks to end a bitter political stalemate that threatens elections next month.Three Republicans and three Democrats, including top members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the deadlock and related violence threatens Bangladesh's … [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh - At least five people were killed in Bangladesh Friday in the widespread violence across the country a day after the execution of an Islamic political leader who was convicted of war crimes in the 1971 war of liberation.
Angry mourners set afire shops, businesses, and attacked members of the Hindu minority in protest [...]

Mr. Molla, 65, is the first person executed as a result of a war-crimes tribunal that has sought to hold people to account for atrocities committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war for independence. The government says that Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed some three million people and raped 200,000 women during the war. Many [...]

Rescue workers look for trapped garment workers in the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka April 26, 2013. Bangladesh textile workers vented their anger on Friday, burning cars and clashing with police, as the death toll passed 300 following the collapse of a building housing factories that made low-cost [...]