Bangladesh
Take a look how Shakib did at IPL
Bangladesh’s top allrounder Shakib Al Hasan could not give his best with the bat and ball for Kolkata Knight Riders after playing only four matches in IPL 2015.
18 May 2015, 12:23 PM
‘Human trafficker’ held in Bhola
Police arrest an alleged human trafficker from his residence in Char Fashion upazila of Bhola.
18 May 2015, 11:53 AM
Female overseas jobseekers’ selection starts May 24
Government will select female migrant jobseekers from May 24 to 30 for sending them to Saudi Arabia as domestic helps.
18 May 2015, 10:45 AM
Mohammadpur school cleaner to be sacked
Mohammadpur Preparatory Higher Secondary School decides to sack cleaner Gopal for trying to sexually harass a Class-1 student and to remove school rector Zeenatun Nesa for her indecent behaviour with guardians over the issue.
18 May 2015, 09:47 AM
Opinion: A day to salute our media
Time to stand proud of Bangladesh's media and the hard work, courage and doggedness the newsmen have shown in covering two important events – torture on DU student Abdul Kadar at Khilgaon police station and exposing the sex attackers of Pahela Baishakh.
18 May 2015, 07:38 AM
Salahuddin wants to return home (video)
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, now undergoing treatment at a Shillong hospital in Indian Meghalaya state, says that he wanted to return home.
18 May 2015, 07:04 AM
3 siblings die inhaling toxic gas in Khagrachhari
Three brothers die after inhaling toxic gas in a septic tank in Mahalchhari upazila of Khagrachhari.
18 May 2015, 06:36 AM
Bangladesh tanneries: HRW gives bleak outlook
Bangladesh must enforce laws to stop child labour and occupational and environmental health dangers in tannery industry, says Human Rights Watch.
18 May 2015, 03:03 AM
SE Asia migrants 'died in fight for food' on boat
Migrants rescued from a sinking boat off Indonesia have told the BBC that about 100 people died after a fight broke out over the last remaining food.
17 May 2015, 14:52 PM
Salahuddin’s wife flies to India
Hasina Ahmed leaves Dhaka for the Indian state of Meghalaya to visit her husband BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed at a Shillong hospital.
17 May 2015, 13:45 PM
Diplomatic moves start as Myanmar faces blame for migrant crisis
Malaysia says its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the influx of boatpeople to Southeast Asia as international pressure grew for a regional solution.
17 May 2015, 12:46 PM
Khilgaon OC jailed for torturing DU student
A Dhaka court sentences Helal Uddin, a former officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station, to three years’ imprisonment for torturing Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar and implicating him in three false cases three years back.
17 May 2015, 11:14 AM
80pc Bangladesh internet users on Facebook
An overwhelming 80 percent internet users of Bangladesh are Facebook users, authorities monitoring the internet says.
17 May 2015, 09:20 AM
Feeling down? Watch this clown (video)
Video of an Awami League activist protesting against Dr Zafar Iqbal goes viral as he admits before camera that he doesn’t know what he is complaining about.
17 May 2015, 09:04 AM
Charges pressed against 2 Habiganj 'Razakar'
Prosecution presses four charges against two war crimes suspects of Habiganj for their alleged crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
17 May 2015, 08:12 AM
Salahuddin losing memories, BNP leader says
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, now at Shillong hospital in Indian Meghalaya state, is losing his memories, a senior party leader says.
17 May 2015, 07:46 AM
Security guard killed in Ashulia 'robbery'
Alleged robbers stabs a security guard to death during a "heist" in a readymade garment unit's warehouse in Ashulia, on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.
17 May 2015, 05:03 AM
Myanmar denies responsibility for migrant boat crisis
Myanmar's government says it is not responsible for the migrant boat crisis in south-east Asia and may not attend an emergency summit on the issue.
17 May 2015, 04:48 AM
Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli confirms
Libya's official government bans Bangladeshi workers from entering the country because many try to travel to Europe by boat illegally, a government spokesman says.
17 May 2015, 04:29 AM
Man shot dead in Rajbari
A man is shot to death by unidentified miscreants at Piralipara in Pangsha upazila of Rajbari.
17 May 2015, 04:11 AM