Feni – AFP River waters in low-lying Bangladesh are receding after days of deadly floods but 300,000 people are still in emergency shelters requiring aid, disaster officials said Sunday. The heavy floods, which killed at least 18 people in Bangladesh, have added to the challenges of a new government who took charge early this month [&hel...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as a suspect in a murder case, related to the killing of a grocery store owner in a police firing incident on July 19. This is the first murder case filed against Hasina, who fled to neighboring India on August 5. The […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh ordered schools and universities around the country to close indefinitely on Tuesday after six students were killed in protests that prompted the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order. Every high school, university and Islamic seminary around the country was told to remain shut until further noti...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, authorities said. “So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh registered 1,701 dengue deaths in 2023, a grim record since the South Asian nation started keeping dengue records in 2000. Of the total, 168 were children between 0 – 15 years of age, according to official figures. Health authorities reported two deaths Thursday and 110 new hospitalizations. Twen...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Bangladeshi authorities on Sunday launched a fresh wave of arrests amid a two-day nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike by the opposition demanding an a neutral caretaker government ahead of a national election. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, and allies on Sunday started the str...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A rally by Bangladesh’s major religio-political party Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday condemned the Israeli attacks on Gaza and urged the Muslim world to ensure the safety of Palestinians and their rights. The procession expressing solidarity with Palestine in the capital Dhaka was attended not just by party members, but als...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – In a first, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Thursday for high-level talks on the bilateral interests of the two countries. Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen welcomed his Russian counterpart, who is paying a one-day visit, at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Air...
