Tag: Bangladesh

According to fire officials, the fire broke out at around 5pm on Thursday at the Shezan juice factory in Naryanganj's Rupganj.

Dhaka: The bullet-ridden bodies of two Rohingya men were found on Saturday near a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, the police said. The camp is home to some 700,000 people from the ethnic Muslim minority group who fled a military campaign against them in Myanmar over a year ago. The bodies were found by […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh is voting on Sunday in a general election, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her third consecutive term in office. Security forces are on high alert, with around 600,000 security personnel deployed across the nation. More than 100 million people are eligible to vote, the BBC reported. Over 40,000 polling centres across the […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s leader of opposition and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will not be able to contest the upcoming general elections after she was sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison in two separate graft cases, Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam said on Tuesday. “Since she is now a convict, according to the existing law […]

Dhaka: The Bangladesh government and the World Bank on Sunday signed an agreement to improve the transparency and efficiency of its major cash transfer programmes. Mahmuda Begum, an Additional Secretary of Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division, and Qimiao Fan, World Bank country Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, signed the agreement worth $300 million here, reports […]

New Delhi: India and Bangladesh on Thursday signed three agreements, including one to use Chattogram and Mongla Ports in Bangladesh for goods movement, for enhancing inland and coastal waterways connectivity between the two countries. The two countries also signed a standard operating procedure (SOP) for movement of passenger and cruise services. They also signed an […]

Dubai: In a match going down the wire, Ravindra Jadeja and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar’s sensible knock helped India pip Bangladesh by three wickets in a thrilling Asia Cup final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium here on Saturday. The win also shattered Bangladesh’s dream of their maiden Asia Cup title while the Rohit Sharma-led Indian side […]

Dubai: Opener Liton Das’ brilliant century helped Bangladesh post 222/10 against India in the Asia Cup final match here on Friday. Bangladesh got off to a flying start but lack of support from the middle and lower order batsmen and some brilliant fielding from Indian players saw Bangladesh only managing to score a modest total. […]

Abu Dhabi: Bangladesh pulled off an upset, defeating Pakistan by 37 runs in the Super Four match to enter the final of the Asia Cup here on Wednesday. In the summit clash, Bangladesh will face India. Defending 239, Bangladesh bowled tight line with left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman leading the pack with 4-43. Mehidy Hasan also […]

Dubai: India dished out another comprehensive performance to thrash Bangladesh by seven wickets in a Super Four stage match of the Asia Cup at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium here on Friday. Skipper Rohit Sharma led India from the front with a fluent unbeaten half-century to overhaul the paltry target of 174 with more than […]

Dubai: Bangladesh dominated with both bat and ball to outclass Sri Lanka by 137 runs in the opening match of the Asia Cup cricket tournament here on Saturday. Electing to bat first, Bangladesh rode Mushfiqur Rahim’s career-best score of 144 runs to post what eventually turned out be a pretty competitive total of 261 in […]

Dhaka: Bangladeshi Hindus took to the streets of Dhaka on Sunday to celebrate Janmashtami, an annual festival that marks the birth of Krishna, revered as the eighth avatar of the ten incarnations of Vishnu. The religious celebration is a public holiday in Bangladesh, where a procession is held in the capital, Efe reported. Participants re-enact […]

Dhaka: Hafez Ullah had fled Myanmar in early September last year, following the torching of his village near the Maungdaw township in northern Rakhine by the Army. On Friday, it will be a day shy of one year when the Rohingya exodus to neighbouring Bangladesh had begun after the Myanmar Army launched an offensive in […]

Kutupalong (Bangladesh): Hundreds of Rohingyas on Monday called for support from the international community during a visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to refugee camps in Bangladesh, which host more than 915,000 members of the Muslim minority who have fled Myanmar. Mud and heavy monsoon rains did not prevent hundreds of Rohingyas from leaving […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh law enforcers have arrested 22,000 people since launching a crackdown on drug trafficking last month, the country’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Monday. He made the remarks at a press conference in capital Dhaka organised on the occasion of International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Tuesday, […]