Tag: Sheikh Hasina

Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus Thursday cancelled an international conference of social business entrepreneurs outside the Bangladeshi capital after ...

Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested a businessman accused of being a major figure in the Islamist group blamed for a ...

Bangladesh Friday removed a controversial statue which religious radicals claim represents an "un-Islamic" Greek goddess from outside the country's highest ...

Bangladesh police swooped on the offices of the country's main opposition leader hunting "anti-state documents" on Saturday, sparking angry protests ...

Bangladesh is using "draconian" internet laws to crack down on dissent, curb public debate and criticism and harass and prosecute ...

Bangladeshi villagers buried the leader of a banned Islamist extremist outfit and two of his aides early Thursday, hours after ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been accused of "kowtowing" to hardline Islamists after expressing dislike for a controversial statue ...

India and Bangladesh signed a slew of agreements on Saturday, including a $4.5 billion concessionary line of credit from India ...

Bangladesh's highest court Sunday ordered the demolition of a lakeside building occupied by powerful garment groups, a move welcomed by ...

A prominent Bangladeshi magazine editor on bail for charges of plotting to kill the prime minister's son said Thursday he ...

A court in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka has issued the arrest warrant Sunday for 22 opposition men including several leaders in ...

A leader and major financial backer of the biggest Islamist party in Bangladesh has been executed for war crimes in ...