BANGLADESHI LAW PROPOSING CHILD MARRIAGE IN 'SPECIAL CASES' IS A STEP BACKWARDS

Girls Not Brides, a coalition of more than 650 charities, said Bangladesh's parliament was expected to consider the proposed change to the Child Marriage Restraint Act... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES OVER BRITISH ENVOY GRENADE ATTACK

Hannan was also sentenced to death for another attack during a new year celebration in 2001 in which 10 people were killed... READ MORE›

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TWENTY FOREIGNERS KILLED AT HOLEY ARTISAN BAKERY IN DHAKA

Twenty people, all of them foreigners, are killed during an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a cafe in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, the army says... READ MORE›

AFTER SLAUGHTER BANGLADESH REELS AT REVELATIONS ABOUT ATTACKERS

Mr. Kabir had already been in close touch with the police since Mr. Mubasher disappeared on Feb 29... READ MORE›

AN ISIS ATTACK IN BANGLADESH'S CAPITAL SHOULD SURPRISE NO ONE

On Friday night, assailants assaulted a restaurant in an upscale neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh's teeming capital... READ MORE›

'GOD WANTS YOU TO DIE': DHAKA'S LONG NIGHT OF TERROR

What's really puzzling is the background of these attackers, said Faiz Sobhan of the Dhaka-based think tank, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute... READ MORE›

IS BANGLADESH THE NEXT ISIS HOTSPOT?

ISIS specifically mentioned they want to carry out more high profile attacks in Bangladesh... READ MORE›

'I DO POLITICS FOR THE PEOPLE'

Exclusive Sheikh Hasina Wazed rebuffs claims curbs on opposition activists and the media are turning Bangladesh into a one-party state... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH PM HASINA DECREES MOURNING AFTER CAFE ATTACK

The 68-year-old prime minister said the people behind the attacks were trying to ruin Bangladesh, a mainly Muslim nation of 160 million people... READ MORE›

UK JOURNALIST GUILTY OF QUERYING BANGLADESH DEATH TOLL

Related Stories A court in Bangladesh has found a British man guilty of contempt for challenging the official death toll from the 1971 war of independence... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH EX-PM KHALEDA ZIA IN LOCKDOWN AHEAD OF PROTEST

Related Stories Security forces in Bangladesh have stopped opposition leader Khaleda Zia from leaving her party offices and banned all protests in the capital... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH BUS HIT BY PETROL BOMB

Telegraph seven bus passengers killed in spiralling political unrest in bangladesh 5 hrs ago... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH SEEKING POLICE 'BLACK SHEEP' ON DUTY WHEN US BLOGGER WAS KILLED

Imam directed the remarks to Shahidul Hoque, the inspector general of Bangladesh police, while addressing a meeting at Dhaka University on the perception of police... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH MOURNS VICTIMS OF CAFE ATTACK

Dhaka cafe attack Bangladeshis mourn hostages, officers killed... READ MORE›

KIN VIEW VICTIM'S BODIES IN DHAKA AS ATTACK HIGHLIGHTS GROWING ISLAMIC STATE THREAT

Groups that are now active there include the al-Qaida-affiliated Ansarullah Bangla Team, al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent AQIS, the Islamic State group and JMB... READ MORE›

ATTACKER AND 'HOSTAGE' HELD AFTER ASSAULT ON DHAKA'S HOLEY CAFE

They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh JMB, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said... READ MORE›

FOURTH BLOGGER THIS YEAR IS HACKED TO DEATH IN BANGLADESH

Niloy Chakrabarti wrote under the name Niloy Neel and is the latest secular Bangladeshi blogger to be killed by a group believed to be Islamist militants... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH REJECTS ISIL CLAIM OF KILLING MAN

The Islamic State also claimed responsibility for the killing of an Italian aid worker last week in Bangladesh's capital... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH ARRESTS OVER 3000 TO HALT EXTREMIST ATTACKS

They were members of the Jama'atul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, one of two groups that the authorities believe are behind most of the attacks, the police said... READ MORE›

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party, led by former prime minister Khaleda Zia, has criticised the tribunal, saying it is intended to weaken the opposition... READ MORE›

30 DEAD AS BANGLADESH POLITICAL VIOLENCE ESCALATES

Zia is the widow of Ziaur Rahman, the conflict's best-known Bangladeshi military commander, who later became president... READ MORE›

MILITANTS TAKE HOSTAGES AT BANGLADESH RESTAURANT; 2 DEAD

In Washington, a White House official said President Barack Obama was briefed on the attack by his chief counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco... READ MORE›

ISIS GUNMEN KILL AT LEAST 22 PEOPLE IN HOSTAGE CRISIS AT DHAKA CAFE

Bangladesh attack Isis gunmen kill at least 22 people in hostage crisis at Dhaka restaurant... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH: SHEIKH HASINA PAYS RESPECT TO DHAKA VICTIMS

TIMELINE Bangladesh's soft targets Authorities released photographs of the bodies of five attackers, along with their first names Akash, Badhon, Bikash, Don and Ripon... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH BURIES MOTIUR RAHMAN NIZAMI AMID PROTESTS

Party issues strike call as police use rubber bullets to disperse protests against hanging of Motiur Rahman Nizami... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH POLICE STORM RESTAURANT TO RESCUE HOSTAGES

The attackers have not responded to authorities' calls for negotiation, said a member of Bangladesh's elite anti-crime force, Rapid Action Battalion, identifying himself as Lt.-Col... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH STRUGGLES TO KEEP RADICAL ISLAM IN CHECK

Several slayings claimed by radical Islamic groups have Bangladesh scrambling to contain what appears to be a rising tide of extremism, and it couldn't hav... READ MORE›

FORMER BANGLADESH PM KHALEDA ACCUSED OF SEDITION

The case was filed by a lawyer with the Bangladesh Supreme Court, complaining that remarks Khaleda made last month about the 1971 war of independence were seditious... READ MORE›

ISRAEL IS TO BLAME FOR ISLAMIST ATTACKS ON BLOGGERS SAYS BANGLADESHI POLITICIAN

Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority state, has no direct ties to Israel... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH POLICE RELEASE NAMES OF RESTAURANT ATTACKERS

Two police officers were killed by the attackers, and 13 people were rescued when commandos stormed the restaurant Saturday morning... READ MORE›

BANGLADESH MILITANTS EXCHANGE FIRE WITH POLICE AT EID PRAYERS

It is a political attack to oust and topple the secular government of Sheikh Hasina, Inu said... READ MORE›

KERRY OFFERS BANGLADESH FBI HELP AS POLICE PROBE ATTACKERS' LINKS

The Dhaka restaurant attack was the worst since 2005, when JMB set off a series of bombs throughout Bangladesh in the space of an hour... READ MORE›