Mahfuz Anam, the editor of Bangladesh's most popular English language newspaper, has been facing 79 legal cases - 62 for defamation and 17 for sedition.
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7th Dec 2023 | Updated at 06:20pm 7th Dec 2023
Protesters rally in Bangladesh to demand fresh elections
- 14 Dec 2022
Tens of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's largest opposition group have assembled in Dhaka to oppose the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led administration and call for fresh elections.
Temple, homes and shops of Hindus vandalised in Bangladesh
- 20 Jul 2022
Dhaka: A temple, shops and several houses of the Hindu community have been vandalised in southwestern Bangladesh by some unidentified people over a Facebook post allegedly belittling Islam, in the latest spate of violence targeting the religious...
Bangladesh Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence on Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party
A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 3 people to death and 5 others to prison for killing an atheist blogger in 2013.
Bangladeshi hanged two top opposition leaders for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan after the country's President rejected their last-ditch mercy petitions to escape the gallows.
A regional division of the Al Qaida has claimed responsibility for the attacks on two publishers in Bangladesh who put out works critical of fundamentalist...
In the second killing of a foreign national in Bangladesh, a Japanese citizen was shot dead within a week of an Italian's death which was claimed by the Islamic State.
The Indian government is working on an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act to grant citizenship to “persecuted” Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Touhidur Rahman, 58, a Bangladeshi-born British citizen, was arrested for the alleged murders of two secular bloggers in the country, police said.
A Bangladeshi novelist has won Britain's oldest literary award with her debut novel In the Light of What We Know. Writer Zia Haider Rahman has joined some of world's greatest literary names by winning this year James Tait Black Literary Prizes,...
An investigation into the land and property dealings have suggested that the famous 221B Baker Street building, which is synonymous to the literary detective Sherlock Holmes is linked to notorious Kazakh businessman Rakhat Aliyev and his family.
