The death toll from a weekend ferry disaster in central Bangladesh rose to 70 on Monday in the latest shipping mishap in the South Asian nation. The official search for more bodies by divers at the accident site was called off late Monday morning after the ferry was brought to[…]
Unidentified attackers threw petrol bombs on a packed passenger bus, leaving at least seven people dead and 16 others injured early Tuesday amid a nationwide general strike enforced by an opposition alliance calling for new elections in Bangladesh. Local police chief Uttam Chakrabarty said the pre-dawn attack took place in[…]
Clashes between supporters of Bangladesh’s opposition and ruling party have erupted in several cities as security forces continued their siege of opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s office, preventing her from leaving. Monday marks the first anniversary of last year’s controversial poll, and Zia had urged her supporters to take to the[…]
Two activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have been shot dead in clashes with ruling party supporters after their leader called for protests on the first anniversary of elections her party boycotted, police said. Monday’s clashes came as BNP’s leader Khaleda Zia remains confined to her office in[…]
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty handed down for a Jamaat-e-Islami leader for atrocities committed more than four decades ago, the latest in a spate of rulings against the Islamist party’s officials. Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 62, assistant secretary-general of the party, was found guilty on Monday of genocide and[…]
Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party was leading Monday with 232 seats in a national election marred by violence and boycotted by the opposition amid concerns by the international community that the process was deeply flawed. The Election Commission had not provided official results, but preliminary results reaching the commission showed[…]
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