Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government has already initiated the process of appointing 2,000 more physicians and 6,000 nurses to ensure treatment of the coronavirus infected patients
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9th Jun 2023 | Updated at 04:44am 9th Jun 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...
Abdul Majed, a sacked Bangladeshi Army officer and one of the convicts in the killing of the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was executed on Sunday, according to a prison official
- 25 Mar 2020
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew a clear distinction between the growth trajectories of two of India’s neighbours - describing Pakistan as a supporter...
A court in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant against Bangladesh’s first Hindu chief justice, Surendra Kumar Sinha, on charges of embezzling 4,00,00000 taka. Sinha has been in the crosshairs of the Awami League Party government in Bangladesh...
The founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the world's largest NGOs, has died in Dhaka aged 83. Fazle Hasan Abed passed away while undergoing treatment for a brain tumour.
- 23 Dec 2019
Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen has said, that India's Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens are “India's internal issues". However, he also voiced concern that any "uncertainty" in the country is likely...
- 23 Dec 2019
On Monday 23rd December, the European Commission issued a further €10 million in humanitarian aid to address the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh and Myanmar. This is in addition to the €33 million funding already announced earlier this year and...
- 18 Dec 2019
Bangladesh will take back any of its citizen if it is proven he/she was staying in India illegally, an advisor to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
With authorities in Bangladesh failing to submit the medical report of jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the Supreme Court deferred the hearing...
- 04 Dec 2019
A special Bangladeshi tribunal sentenced seven of the eight suspects to death for their involvement in the 2016 Islamist attack on a Dhaka cafe that killed 20 people, including an Indian girl, the worst terror attack in the country’s history
