Pakistan on Saturday condemned the "senseless terrorist attack" in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka that has led to the loss of lives and injuries to many innocent people.
At least five have been killed, while more than 11 hostages rescued, as joint Bangladesh special operation forces stormed a Dhaka restaurant Saturday morning to free dozens of people from gunmen there, police said.
China will renovate Bangladesh's largest multi-purpose convention center which Beijing built as a token of friendship between China and Bangladesh about 15 years ago according to the Minutes of Implementation singed last Sunday.
Police in Bangladesh say they have shot dead the main suspect in the killing of secularist blogger Avijit Roy.
Police in Bangladesh said on Sunday that they have arrested more than 5,000 criminal suspects in the past few days as they continue a nationwide crackdown to try and stop a growing wave of brutal attacks on minorities and activists.
Grameenphone, the Norwegian Telenor Group's concern in Bangladesh, has teamed up with the Bangladeshi government and launched "Tonic," a new digital health service, in collaboration with Telenor Health.
Officials of Bangladesh Bank may have been involved in a brazen theft of $81 million from its account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank in February, the head of a government-appointed panel investigating the cyber heist told reporters on Monday.
Bangladesh has slapped a travel ban on a leader of ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) over Israel- linked allegation to "topple Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina government."
Pakistan Wednesday said it was deeply saddened over the hanging of Ameer Jamat e Islami Bangladesh Moti ur Rehman Nizami for the alleged crimes committed before December 1971 and termed it against the spirit of democracy.
Bangladesh jail authorities have asked family members to meet death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, raising speculation that the Islamist party chief might be executed Tuesday night.
Bangladesh's central bank became more vulnerable to hackers when technicians from SWIFT, the global financial network, connected a new bank transaction system to SWIFT messaging three months before a $81 million cyber heist, Bangladeshi police and a bank official alleged.
A two-day nationwide shutdown called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami began on Sunday morning in protest of an apex court verdict that upheld death penalty for the Islamist party's chief for 1971 war crimes.
A group affiliated to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday (April 26) for killing a Bangladeshi gay rights activist and his friend, the latest in a string of murders of liberal activists and other minorities in the South Asian nation.
Two persons including an editor of a magazine were on Monday hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, hours after a prison guard was shot dead in a separate incident.
A police official said suspected extremists have killed a university professor in Bangladesh's Rajshahi district, some 256 km northwest of capital Dhaka.
People in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and elsewhere got panicked by a powerful earthquake which jolted neighboring Myanmar and parts of the region Wednesday evening.
The killing of a Bangladeshi secular blogger has sparked widespread anger with his organisation staging demonstarations in Dhaka's busy Shahbag Square and elsewhere in the country on Friday.
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