News: Bangladesh

We have started to collect the most important news related to Bangladesh in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Bangladesh: news

Bangladesh hangs top Islamist leader

Tuesday, May 10th 2016, 22:23
related countries: Pakistan

An Islamist leader is hanged in Bangladesh for crimes during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971, as a crowd celebrates outside the jail.
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Bangladesh Sufi Muslim hacked to death

Saturday, May 7th 2016, 16:44

A Sufi Muslim leader is hacked to death in Bangladesh in another attack which police suspect may have been carried out by Islamic extremists.
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Bangladesh Islamist loses final appeal

Thursday, May 5th 2016, 9:55
related countries: Pakistan

The head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party loses a final appeal against his death sentence for war crimes during the war of independence from Pakistan.
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Is extremism on the rise in Bangladesh?

Thursday, May 5th 2016, 0:13

Death of Bangladesh activist raises fears of violent extremism
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VIDEO: Liberal Bangladesh under threat?

Wednesday, May 4th 2016, 22:43

The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports on the fear amongst liberals in Bangladesh following a spate of killings.
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Cases filed over Bangladesh Hindu murder

Monday, May 2nd 2016, 7:07

Two criminal cases are filed in Bangladesh against three men arrested for hacking to death a Hindu tailor, the latest in a series of such killings.
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Bangladesh Hindu hacked to death

Saturday, April 30th 2016, 13:44

A Hindu tailor once arrested for derogatory comments about Islam has been hacked to death in a district in central Bangladesh, police say.
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'Torture' cricketer asks for end of ban

Thursday, April 28th 2016, 16:06

A Bangladeshi cricketer asks to be allowed to return to the sport after being charged with torturing his 11-year-old maid.
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Al-Qaeda group claims editor killing

Tuesday, April 26th 2016, 16:42

A Bangladeshi militant group affiliated to al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Islam, says it was behind the killing of a top gay rights activist and his friend.
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Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death

Monday, April 25th 2016, 22:00

A senior editor on Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death along with a second person in the capital Dhaka, police say.
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Murdered Bangladeshi 'not an atheist'

Sunday, April 24th 2016, 16:17

The daughter of a Bangladeshi professor hacked to death in a murder, which echoes attacks on secularists, tells the BBC her father was not an atheist.
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VIDEO: 'Buried for nine hours then robbed'

Sunday, April 24th 2016, 7:49

Some of the survivors of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh say their compensation money is being stolen by close relatives.
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Bangladesh professor hacked to death

Saturday, April 23rd 2016, 14:23

A professor in western Bangladesh is hacked to death on his way to work, in an attack police say is similar to the killings of a number of secular bloggers.
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Senior Bangladesh editor is arrested

Saturday, April 16th 2016, 15:54
related places: Dhaka

Prominent Bangladeshi magazine editor Shafik Rehman is arrested in Dhaka on suspicion of sedition, police and his family say.
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Protests in Dhaka over blogger's murder

Thursday, April 7th 2016, 12:33
related places: Dhaka

Students in Bangladesh protest over alleged government inaction after another secular blogger is killed by suspected Islamist militants.
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VIDEO: Protests as Bangladesh student hacked to death

Thursday, April 7th 2016, 12:01

Students in Bangladesh have held protests about government inaction after another secular blogger was killed by suspected Islamist militants.
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Bangladesh student hacked to death

Thursday, April 7th 2016, 7:24
related places: Dhaka

A Bangladeshi law student who expressed secular views online is killed in the capital Dhaka, after a string of murders by Islamist extremists.
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Arrests in deadly power plant dispute

Tuesday, April 5th 2016, 10:29

Bangladeshi police arrest three people and file a case against 3,000 villagers after four deaths during clashes at a protest against a proposed power plant.
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Bangladesh rallies over teen killing

Friday, March 25th 2016, 16:57
related places: Dhaka

Hundreds of protesters in Bangladesh block a key intersection in the capital, Dhaka, over the killing of a 19-year-old student in a military zone.
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Bangladesh bank boss quits over fraud

Tuesday, March 15th 2016, 7:52

The head of Bangladesh's central bank resigns after cyber-thieves stole more than $100m from the country's foreign currency reserves.
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IS 'beheads' Hindu priest in Bangladesh

Sunday, February 21st 2016, 16:24

The so-called Islamic State group says it is responsible for decapitating a senior Hindu priest and wounding two worshippers in northern Bangladesh.
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First Rohingya census in Bangladesh

Friday, February 12th 2016, 16:05

The Bangladeshi government starts a census of unregistered members of the Rohingya ethnic group who have gone there to escape persecution in Myanmar.
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Police suspended after Dhaka death

Friday, February 5th 2016, 11:30
related places: Dhaka

Five police officers are suspended in Bangladesh after the death of a tea vendor during a suspected extortion attempt.
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'Tree man' to undergo free surgery

Thursday, February 4th 2016, 17:07

Bangladesh's government says it will cover the cost of operations for Abul Bajandar, who has a rare disease causing him to grow bark-like warts.
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VIDEO: Floating hospital for hard to reach patients

Sunday, January 24th 2016, 0:02

Akbar Hossain reports on the floating hospital that travel to patients in need in Bangladesh.
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Earthquake hits India's Manipur state

Monday, January 4th 2016, 12:54
related countries: India
related places: Manipur

Earthquake measuring 6.7 magnitude hits northeast India, near borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, killing at least nine people.
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Transgender life in Bangladesh

Monday, January 4th 2016, 0:11

Ananya felt like a girl trapped in a boy's body
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Death for Bangladesh blogger killers

Thursday, December 31st 2015, 12:05

Two people are sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the killing of atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in 2013.
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VIDEO: 'We must protect Bangladesh's secularism'

Wednesday, December 30th 2015, 7:10

Bangladesh will "protect its secularism", despite a series of attacks on religious figures and institutions, the country's President Abdul Hamid says.
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Cricketer charged with torturing maid

Tuesday, December 29th 2015, 15:39

Police in Bangladesh charge cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife with torturing their former housemaid, an 11-year-old girl.
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Sectarian terror fears grip Bangladesh

Tuesday, December 1st 2015, 0:19

Bangladesh lurches from secularism to sectarian strife
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IS 'carried out Bangladesh attack'

Friday, November 27th 2015, 11:27

The so-called Islamic State group claims it was behind an attack on a Shia mosque in Bangladesh which killed at least one person and injured three.
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Italian priest attacked in Bangladesh

Wednesday, November 18th 2015, 10:58
related countries: Italy

An Italian priest is wounded by unidentified gunmen in Bangladesh, the third attack on foreigners in under two months.
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Bangladesh academic gets death threat

Wednesday, November 11th 2015, 4:53

One of Bangladesh's most prominent academics, Professor Anisuzzaman, says he has received a death threat because of his support for secularists.
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Bangladesh boy killers to be executed

Sunday, November 8th 2015, 17:52

Six men are sentenced to death in Bangladesh for torturing and killing two teenage boys in separate incidents earlier this year.
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VIDEO: Pasteurising breast milk in Bangladesh

Sunday, November 8th 2015, 0:11

A new pasteurisation device is extending the life of breast milk and helping working mothers to breast feed their infants for longer
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VIDEO: Protests in Dhaka over writer deaths

Monday, November 2nd 2015, 17:03
related places: Dhaka

Hundreds of people take to the street to protest against a series of attacks on secular writers and publishers in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
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