Seven top militants, including chief of the banned Jmaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB), Shaikh Abdur Raman, and second-in-command Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, on Monday were sentenced to death for killing of two judges in...

Reuters - A Bangladesh university has postponed exams until after the World Cup finals after hundreds of students besieged the vice-chancellor's office.

AFP - Two Islamic militant leaders charged with masterminding a string of deadly blasts across Bangladesh have been sentenced to death for the murder of two judges, officials said.

Reuters - A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced seven top Islamist militants to death for killing two judges in a bomb attack in southern Jhalakati town in November last year.

AFP - Bangladesh increased development spending by 21 percent to a record 3.8 billion dollars for the new fiscal year to create more jobs and cut poverty ahead of general elections, a senior official said.

Reuters - Heavy rain sweeping across Bangladesh over the past two days has raised hopes for an early monsoon that weather experts say will boost agriculture.

Five people were killed and six others sustained burn injuries in a lightning storm in the Satkhira district of Bangladesh over the last 48 hours. Witnesses said the lightning incidents occurred during the heavy rain on...

AP - Bangladesh has launched its first submarine fiber-optic cable, allowing high-speed telecommunications that are likely to enhance the country's information technology sector.

AP - Angry garment workers set fire to seven textile factories in and around the capital Tuesday after news that an employee shot in the back during recent protests over better pay and working conditions had died, officials and witnesses said.

U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Patricia A Boutenis called on Forest and Environment Minister of Bangladesh Tariqul Islam at his office in Dhaka on Sunday. During the meeting, they discussed on different issues relating to...

AP - Textile workers demanding better pay and one day off per week went on a rampage Monday at an industrial park near the Bangladeshi capital, setting fire to two factories and several buses, a domestic news agency reported.

AP - A truck carrying illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Bangladesh crashed into a parked transport truck Friday, killing at least 40 people, an official in southern Turkey said.

Lightning struck four people to death and injured 12 others in four upazilas of the northern district Dinajpur in Bangladesh on Friday, a local news agency reported. Of the deceased, three were identified as Nur Nabi, 27,...

A feasibility study on inter-connecting Bangladesh power grid with India’s North Eastern grid for brining power from India is likely to be conducted soon by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)....

AFP - Bangladesh will be connected to a high-speed overseas telecom link next week amid hopes it will foster the growth of information technology in the impoverished country, an official said.

Ten militants were sentenced to life-term and three-others 20-year imprisonment in Bangladesh on charge of chain bomb explosion in the northern Joypurhat district town on August 17 last year. Judge AFM Aminul Islam of the...

Burma says that it will sell gas from an offshore A-1 field to India through a land route bypassing Bangladesh. India's ONGC Videsh (OVL) and Gail together hold 30 percent stake in A-1 field operated by Daewoo of South...

AP - Ten Islamic militants were sentenced on Sunday to life in prison for their roles in a series of bombings across Bangladesh, and three men received 20-year sentences in the attacks.

The US hospital ship Mercy, which acquitted itself admirably after the tsunami in Indonesia, has sailed off a five-month humanitarian assistance mission to four Asia-Pacific states. The Mercy has left San Diego, on April 24,...

AFP - A court has sentenced 10 Islamic militants to life imprisonment and three others to 20 years in jail for their roles in deadly blasts across Bangladesh last year.