Tag: #Dhaka
Bangladesh capital awash with plastic-coated posters
Dhaka, Feb 1 (AFP/APP): Dhaka is awash with millions of plastic-laminated campaign posters ahead of elections in the Bangladeshi capital, and environmentalists ...Bangladeshi journalists find Pakistan safe for cricket; praise hospitality
LAHORE, Jan 27 (APP): Visiting Bangladeshi sports journalists have praised unprecedented security provided to the Bangladesh cricket team and are awed by ...Bangladesh arrests Sufi Muslim singer after protests
Dhaka, Jan 12 (AFP/APP): A top Bangladeshi Sufi folk singer was arrested under a controversial internet law that critics say is used ...Student’s rape triggers protests in Bangladesh capital
Dhaka, Jan 6 (AFP/APP): The sexual assault of a student at a top university in Bangladesh triggered angry protests in Bangladesh on ...BRAC founder Fazle Hasan Abed dies aged 83
Dhaka, Dec 21 (AFP/APP): Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the world’s largest NGOs, ...Eight killed in blaze at Bangladesh plastics factory
Dhaka, Dec 12 (AFP/APP): Eight people were killed and at least 24 critically injured when a devastating fire swept through an illegal ...Bangladesh court sentences extremists to death for 2016 attack
Dhaka, Nov 27 (AFP/APP): Seven extremists have been sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court over a savage 2016 attack that killed ...Bangladesh to shut brick kilns as air quality soars to world’s worst
Dhaka, Nov 26 (AFP/APP): Bangladesh said Tuesday it will shut hundreds of soot-belching brick kilns around its capital Dhaka as part of ...25 charged with over brutal killing of Bangladesh student
Dhaka, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): Some 25 people, many members of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party, were charged with murder Wednesday over ...15 dead as trains collide in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Nov 12 (AFP/APP): At least 15 people were killed and 58 others injured when two trains collided in eastern Bangladesh early ...