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Toxic gas leak at Bangla unit sickens 250 people
About 250 people, including children, have fallen sick and hundreds of residents have been evacuated from their homes after a toxic gas leak from a fertiliser unit in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittag
24 Aug 2016 6:19 AM
Bangladesh: Cops abduct top Islamist leader’s son, says family
The police has abducted the son of a top Bangladeshi war crimes convict, his family said Tuesday, the latest in a series of forced disappearances of Opposition leaders’ children.
24 Aug 2016 6:17 AM
New terror outfit targets Hindus
A new militant outfit, aligned to the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), has prepared a list of local Hindus and secularists, and finalised plans to kill a Hindu doctor, police said.
21 Aug 2016 5:49 AM
Flood-hit elephant that travelled 1,700km dies
Bangladeshi villagers gather as wildlife experts attend to the elephant that washed up in a swamp after being caught up in raging floodwaters. (Photo: AP)
17 Aug 2016 6:49 AM
Bangladesh foils attack, arrests 5 militants
Five members of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh have been arrested for their involvement in the Dhaka cafe attack that left 22 people dead, as the police on Friday identified a second mastermind of th
13 Aug 2016 4:06 AM
Bangladeshi boy with ‘old man’ illness baffles doctors
A four-year-old Bangladeshi boy suffering from a mysterious illness that makes him look like an old man has been admitted to hospital for tests, doctors and his family said.
10 Aug 2016 6:12 AM
Dhaka cafe attack: Police assign ID numbers for those living in rented houses
A gun battle erupted when nine suspected militants, who had rented the apartment a few days ago, were shot dead.
07 Aug 2016 12:01 PM
Briton held for Dhaka cafe attack
Bangladesh police escort former North South University teacher Hasnat Karim and Canadian university student Tahmid Hasib in Dhaka. (Photo: AFP)
05 Aug 2016 6:56 AM
Dhaka attack kingpin may be in India
Bangladesh alerted Indian security agencies that the mastermind of the deadly Dhaka cafe terror attack may have fled to India, amid a nationwide manhunt to track down the Bangladeshi-Canadian, police
02 Aug 2016 6:40 AM
Bangladesh bachelors face accommodation crisis
Bachelors in Bangladesh are finding it hard to find accommodation with landlords declining to rent out houses to them in the wake of extra security vigil due to the increased terror threat, prompting
01 Aug 2016 5:44 AM
Canadian is Dhaka attack ‘mastermind’
A Canadian citizen was one of the masterminds behind a mass killing at a Dhaka cafe, Bangladesh police said Saturday, after new information came to light following a raid on an extremist hideout.
31 Jul 2016 6:01 AM
Bangladesh: American among militants killed
One of nine suspected militants killed in a police raid in Bangladesh this week was a Bangladeshi-American who was a friend of one of the gunmen who attacked a cafe on July 1 killing 22 people, the po
29 Jul 2016 12:39 AM
Gruesome murder of 9-year-old shocks Dhaka
Boy died after co-workers inserted nozzle of air pump in his rectum.
26 Jul 2016 6:37 AM
Dhaka attack: Attackers’ blood samples given to FBI
Bangladesh police on Friday handed over to the FBI for testing blood and hair samples of militants who carried out the country’s worst terror attack in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed.
23 Jul 2016 5:56 AM
Dhaka attack: 4 JMB militants arrested in Bangladesh
Four Islamist militants of the banned home-grown JMB group, including its top regional head, were arrested on Thursday, who authorities said were responsible for Bangladesh’s worst terror attack on a
22 Jul 2016 2:04 AM
England will tour Bangla despite concerns: Mortaza
Bangladesh fast bowler Mashrafe Bin Mortaza believes the English cricket team will tour the country, though a militant attack at a Dhaka cafe earlier this month has put the series in doubt.
22 Jul 2016 12:32 AM
Dhaka cafe attack: 4 new suspects spotted in CCTV footage
Bangladeshi investigators poring over CCTV footage believe they have spotted four new suspects, including a woman, involved in a bloody attack on a cafe in the capital Dhaka, in July, a senior securit
20 Jul 2016 12:08 AM
3 held for attack on Sufi Muslims
Three persons were arrested on Monday for their involvement in an attack on three elderly Sufi Muslims, including two women, and critically injuring them in western Bangladesh’s border town with India
19 Jul 2016 6:29 AM
3 get death penalty, 5 jailed for life over Bangladesh war crimes
Prosecution lawyers said six of the convicts were members of infamous Al-badr auxiliary force of the Pakistani troops.
18 Jul 2016 1:25 PM
Dhaka arrests 4 for sheltering terrorists
The police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people and another on Sunday, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting property who later attacked a c
18 Jul 2016 4:41 AM
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