Habiul Biswas and his wife Sajda Biswas quietly step down from a vehicle and walk towards a row of closed shops near Hakimpur border checkpost in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. The check ...

Kolkata, The number of illegal Bangladeshi nationals attempting to cross the India-Bangladesh border in South Bengal has risen sharply in recent weeks, a surge that is being linked to the ongoing ...

A powerful earthquake shook Bangladesh close to the capital city, Dhaka, on Friday, killing at least five people and injuring many others, the government said. An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hit ...

Bangladesh may be heading toward a major seismic disaster if long-stored tectonic energy is released, leading earthquake and geography experts have warned. Their concerns intensified after Friday’s ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and one of her close aides were sentenced to death Monday over her crackdown on a student uprising last year that killed ...

New Delhi, India – Shima Akhter, 24, was in the middle of football practice when her friend stopped the session to break some news for her: Sheikh Hasina, the fugitive former prime minister of ...

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DHAKA, Bangladesh — A Bangladeshi court’s decision to sentence exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death has done little to heal a nation scarred by her long rule and last year’s bloody ...

For almost two decades, Anoyara Bibi lived in a shanty with her family of five and worked as a ragpicker at Mahishbathan in Salt Lake near Kolkata. PREMIUM Bangladeshi nationals await their turn at ...

December is a particularly jolly time of the year—for more reasons than one. Besides the cliched delight that inherently comes with twinkling lights, sparkling snow, and a general sense of wintertime ...

The former Bangladesh captain has reiterated that he will be willing to quit if he cannot deliver over the next 3-6 months The former Bangladesh captain has reiterated that he will be willing to quit ...

Ms Hasina oversaw a transformation in Bangladesh's economy but critics say she crushed dissent Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed began her political career as a ...