A lecturer in a medical school in Bangladesh has been suspended, two days after allegedly shooting and injuring a student in a classroom.
Dr. Raihan Sharif was arrested shortly afterwards but was only suspended on Wednesday following a protest by (...)
Bangladesh's critically endangered wild elephants have received a court order banning their adoption and protecting them from exploitation.
Animal rights groups welcomed the High Court suspension of all licences, so young Asian elephants can no (...)
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her fourth straight term in a controversial election.
Ms Hasina will serve another five years in office after her party the Awami League and its allies won 223 of 300 parliamentary seats (...)
Polls in Bangladesh opened on Sunday for a general election that is being boycotted by the main opposition party, with the country's leader Sheikh Hasina — the world's longest serving female prime minister — set to win her fourth consecutive (...)
Weeks of mounting political tension have erupted into protests and bloodshed in Bangladesh, leaving the country on edge ahead of general elections due in January.
Several senior opposition leaders were arrested last Sunday, a day after a massive (...)
DHAKA — Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed received Sheikh Abdullah Al-Buaijan, imam and preacher of the Prophet's Mosque, in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday.
Sheikh Al-Buaijan is currently on a visit to Bangladesh as part of the (...)
At least 17 people have died with many others injured after two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh, authorities say.
A freight train smashed into the rear coaches of a passenger train in Bhairab, 80km (50 mile) north-east of Dhaka on Monday (...)
More than 1,000 people have died from dengue in Bangladesh's worst outbreak on record, official data shows, with rising temperatures due to the climate crisis driving the ongoing spread as more cases are reported away from dense urban centers for (...)
Nearly 1,000 people have died of dengue in Bangladesh in recent weeks, in what authorities say is the country's most severe outbreak of the disease yet.
Extraordinarily wet monsoons have made it easier for mosquitoes that carry the dengue virus to (...)
More than 170 global figures have called on Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina to stop the "persecution" of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Prof Yunus — known internationally as the "banker to the poor" — has been slapped with swathes of (...)
A significant surge in dengue fever cases has gripped Bangladesh, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday, calling for efforts to control the mosquito vector population and minimize individual exposure such as using mosquito (...)
PORT LOUIS — Saudi Ambassador to South Africa and the non-resident Ambassador to Mauritius Sultan Al-Angari met with Secretary General of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Ambassador Salman Al-Farsi at the headquarters of IORA in (...)
As a clearer picture emerges of the trail of destruction left by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh, humanitarians are continuing to provide life-saving assistance, and the need for an urgent increase in funding.
In Myanmar, the UN appealed on (...)
JEDDAH — The first Hajj flights from Malaysia and Bangladesh arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday within the Makkah Route initiative.
The Malaysian Hajj pilgrims arrived on Sunday morning at Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in (...)
DHAKA — The first Hajj flight of pilgrims, who are benefiting from the Makkah Route initiative, departed from Bangladesh on Sunday through the initiative's hall at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka.
The departure operation was attended (...)
Myanmar's military leaders have declared Rakhine state a national disaster area after Cyclone Mocha hit on Sunday, killing at least six people.
The cyclone was one of the strongest this century to hit the Bay of Bengal, lashing Myanmar and (...)
A powerful cyclone is hitting the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm.
Cyclone Mocha is bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 195kph (120mph), which could see dangerous flooding on (...)
A tropical cyclone is strengthening in the Bay of Bengal and is on course to hit western Myanmar and Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, where around 1 million people live in flimsy shelters in what many consider to be the world's largest refugee (...)
Mohammed Shahabuddin, a retired judge, has been sworn in as the new president of Bangladesh for a five-year term, replacing outgoing president Abdul Hamid.
The 74-year-old retired judge of the ruling Awami League party was elected unopposed in Feb. (...)
Mohammed Shahabuddin, a retired judge, has been sworn in as the new president of Bangladesh for a five-year term, replacing outgoing president Abdul Hamid, according to the German Press Agency dpa.
Shahabuddin recited the oath of office, (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 48 tons of food baskets to needy families in the Republic of Bangladesh on Tuesday, benefiting 24,000 people as part of the Feeding Basket Project 2023.
This comes within the (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 960 shelter bags on Tuesday to those affected by floods in Bangladesh, providing aid to 5,178 people.
This distribution is part of the shelter projects provided by the Kingdom (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 64 tons and 800 kilograms of food baskets to needy families in the Republic of Bangladesh on Monday, benefiting 16,200 people as part of the Feeding Basket Project 2023.
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King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed yesterday 345 shelter bags to the affected people by floods and torrents in Bangladesh, benefiting 1,926 people.
This comes within the shelter projects provided by the Kingdom of (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed yesterday 350 shelter bags to the affected people by floods and torrents in Bangladesh, benefiting 2,027 people.
This comes within the shelter projects provided by the Kingdom of (...)