Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the concept of microcredit successfully in Bangladesh, is set to star in a special episode of popular American TV series
The Simpsons.
Bangladesh's 1971 war crimes tribunal today issued its first arrest warrants against four top leaders of fundamentalist Jamaat e Islami who were accused of heinous crimes like genocide, rape and murder in the Liberation war which left an estimated 3 million dead.
A tribunal today issued arrest warrants against four top Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders on charges of committing "war crimes" during the 1971 liberation movement.
The Bangladesh government today filed a petition with its International Crimes Tribunal, seeking permission to show four detained top Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) leaders as arrested in connection with "war crimes" committed in 1971.
Suspected ultra-left extremists overnight shot dead three policemen at a remote area in Bangladesh's northwest Pabna district, officials said today.
Bangladesh authorities have slapped four cases against Indian militant Ranjan Chowdhury and his associate whose arrest was announced Saturday.
A Bangladeshi court today remanded two leaders of the banned separatist group ULFA in a three-day police custody after they were arrested in a pre-dawn raid in northern Kishoreganj district yesterday.
Top Indian militant Ranjan Chowdhury of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) had assumed a Muslim name, Masud Chowdhury, and was picked up by Bangladesh police six weeks ago, said a media report in Dhaka today, a day after his arrest was announced.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Thursday revoked the parliamentary membership of a ruling Awami League lawmaker who had been elected despite his conviction on corruption charges.
Bangladesh and Nepal have revived a deal signed more than three decades ago to work out a transit route through which landlocked Nepal can access the Mongla port.
A company floated by the Bangladesh Army will produce 50 MW power at an army camp outside the national capital and sell it to the government.
The eight-lane highway leading from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, narrows repeatedly as it approaches this town about 30 miles north, eventually depositing cars onto a muddy, potholed lane bordered by mangroves and small shops.
The head of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh has been arrested, police said today.
Bangladeshi police charged 824 people, most of them border guards, with murder, arson and other criminal acts in last year's deadly mutiny among security forces, officials said today.
A Bangladeshi court today remanded a top professor of premier Dhaka University in 3-day police custody for quizzing over his alleged links to banned Islamist militant group Hizbut Tahrir.