An elderly Buddhist monk was found hacked to death in Bangladesh, the latest in the string of murders of religious minorities and secular activists in the Muslim-majority region.

India has concluded a nuclear agreement with Bangladesh in a sign that the bilateral neighbourhood relationship is becoming special. The core of the new engagement is all 21st century - energy, connectivity, security.

Bangladesh has hanged Islamist party leader, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for genocide and other crimes committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan

A Hindu tailor was hacked to death by machete-wielding Islamic State militants in his shop in central Bangladesh.

Bangladesh high court has rejected a petition sent by secular activists challenging the constitutional provision that recognises Islam as the state religion of the Muslim-majority nation

 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.

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.