A devastating fire in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has destroyed 1,500 shanties and left thousands homeless. No ...

Classes in schools and colleges have been disrupted and transportation has been halted across Bangladesh as the former ruling ...

From November 25 to December 10 each year, the United Nations urges governments to go beyond slogans and tackle violence ...

Bangladesh's capital and major cities are calm despite a call for a nationwide shutdown by supporters of former Prime ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A strong, 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook central Bangladesh on Friday, killing at least eight people and ...

She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s ...

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake has shaken central Bangladesh, killing at least six people and leaving dozens injured ...

Amnesty International reported Wednesday that the most widely circulated newspaper in Bangladesh, Prothom Alo, has been declared an “enemy” by the Bangladeshi government, a move that Amnesty termed an ...

A powerful earthquake struck outside Bangladesh's crowded capital Dhaka on Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring ...

Bangladesh has beefed up security across the country ahead of an expected verdict against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina faces charges of crimes against humanity involving last ...

Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to death in her absence on Monday at the end of a ...

Voters in Bangladesh have elected the country’s first openly transgender mayor. Nazrul Islam Ritu easily beat her opponent Sunday in an election for the chair of the Union Parishad — the equivalent of ...