The last significant earthquake of the twentieth century in Bangladesh occurred in Moheshkhali upazila in July 1999. Its epicentre was on the island, and the 5.2 magnitude tremor damaged many houses.

Bangladesh intellectual Badruddin Umar, who passed away in September, was often dubbed a leftist theorist. But his real ...

DHAKA, Nov 21, (Xinhua): At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of others injured on Friday after one of the biggest ...

Last year, Bangladesh saw large-scale student protests demanding quota reform. Things quickly spiralled out of control when ...

People celebrate the resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Hasina in Dhaka NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation after weeks of violent protests, announced on ...

Bangladesh was shaken by another tremor on Saturday evening, just hours after a morning earthquake and a day after ...

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

The Bangladeshi military announced Jan. 19 it had foiled a coup plot to unseat the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina. An army spokesman pinned the “heinous conspiracy” ...

Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh - Copyright AFP Munir Uz Zaman Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh ...

This week, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death on two counts by the country’s ...

Her supporters have threatened unrest if her Awami League party, once the country’s largest, remains banned from elections in ...