Page 29 - Bangladesh

England prepared to cancel B'desh tour after foreigner killings

The team is due to arrive in Bangladesh on September 30 for a month-long tour

48-year-old Hindu priest stabbed, critically injured in Bangladesh

The attack came just hours after gunmen stormed a restaurant in Dhaka's high-security Gulshan diplomatic area and took 20 people hostage

Pakistan condemns terror attack in Bangladesh

It said the government and the people of Pakistan extend their heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families and the brotherly people

Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh

Shymanondo Das, the priest, was attacked around 6:30 a.m. in Jhenaidah

Bangladesh enforces nationwide 'security alert' for jails amid terror threats

An intelligence report warning against a possible major terror attack to destablise the country prompted the jail authorities to revise security systems

Bangladesh signs $130 million World Bank loan for economic zones

This is to attract foreign and domestic investment as well as to create more jobs in the manufacturing sector

Bangladesh Islamic scholars, clerics issued Fatwa against terrorism

A 32-page booklet comprising the signatures on the Fatwa was brought out on Saturday

Human Rights Watch urges Bangladesh to halt mass arbitrary arrests

Human Rights Watch urges Bangladesh to halt mass arbitrary arrests

Ramakrishna Mission priest threatened by ISIS followers in Bangladesh

The letter warned the priest that if he continued preaching, he would be hacked to death with machetes

Bangladesh clerics sign fatwa to renounce Islamist killings

Islamic scholars, leaders, thinkers and Olemas finalised 'Fatwa of peace for human well-being'

Concerned UN calls for 'investigation', 'prosecution' of killings in Bangladesh

Militants have killed more than 30 people in the country, including members of religious minorities, liberal bloggers, among others

Over 5,300 arrested in Bangladesh in anti-terror crackdown

As many as 2,128 people have been arrested on the second day of a nationwide anti-terror crackdown, said the police

Bangladeshi Hindus want Modi intervention for safety

60-year-old ashram worker Nityaranjan Pandey was the fourth Hindu casualty in a series of attacks on secular activists in the Muslim-majority nation

Bangladesh arrests 3,000 in ashram killing crackdown, PM vows to nab perpetrators

Militants arrested were operatives of the outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh

Bangladesh detains over 1,700 people in anti-militant drive

Bangladesh has seen a string of brutal attacks by Islamists on religious minorities and secular activists

Bangladesh: ISIS claims responsibility for ashram worker's murder

Nityaranjan Pandey was taking his routine morning walk when several machete-wielding attackers hacked him to death

Hindu ashram worker hacked to death in Bangladesh

Nityaranjan Pandey was attacked by several assailants who hacked him in the neck

3 Islamists killed in crackdown on Bangladesh extremists as Hindu priest murdered

The Bangladesh police launched a massive crackdown on extremists, post the murder of the priest

Hindu priest slaughtered in Bangladesh

Nation has seen a string of brutal attacks on minorities and secular activists

65-year-old Hindu priest brutally killed in Bangladesh

Ananta Gopal Ganguly was attacked by three men who slit his throat with sharp-edged weapons