•Rescue operation ongoing after the jet crashed into school yesterday At least 27 people, mostly children, were killed after a Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka, a government official said today, updating an earlier toll of at least 20 dead. Most of the victims were schoolchildren who had just been […]...
•Mother (C) of an injured student weeps inside a hospital after an Air Force training jet crashed into a school in Dhaka today Sirens wailed as ambulances delivered charred bodies of children to a Dhaka hospital today, victims of a military jet crash that killed at least 19 people, most of them young students. In […]
•Ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina A Bangladeshi court today issued an arrest warrant for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August after she was toppled from power by a student-led revolution. Prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam called it a “remarkable day”, while a relative of one of the hundreds who died in the uprising [&hellip...
•A Bangladeshi student controls the traffic as police go on strike in Dhaka Bangladeshi students battled police for control of the streets and won, but if their country is to embark on a new journey, someone has to clear the road ahead. Gridlock is a fact of life in the capital Dhaka, a megacity of […]
•Nobel laureate, Prof Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh student protesters said that they would push for Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead an interim government today, a day after the prime minister was ousted and the military took charge. “We have decided that the interim government would be formed in which internationally renowned Nobel Laureate...
Bangladesh’s key police association today said its members were going on strike, a day after the protests they had sought to crush with deadly force toppled the prime minister. “Until the security of every member of the police is secured, we are declaring a strike,” the Bangladesh Police Association said in a statement, which represents [&hell...
•PHOTO: Anti-government protestor climbs atop a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founding father and parent of the country’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka yesterday Bangladesh’s president dissolved parliament today, a key demand of student protesters who led demonstrations that ousted longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina, ...
•Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Following weeks of deadly protests, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and left the country. More people have been killed in one of the worst violence since the birth of the South Asian nation more than five decades ago. According to BBC, Hasina is heading for Tripura, the capital of […]
Over 100,000 supporters of two major Bangladesh opposition parties rallied in the capital Dhaka today, police said, demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina step down to allow a free and fair vote under a neutral government. Today’s rallies by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami,...

