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Speech signals no end in sight to deadly strikes, transit blockades and unrest.

Ashfaqur Rahman gathered addresses and other data used in murdering secular writers, police say.

Rampal plant will cause 150 premature deaths yearly over its 40-year life, environmental group says.

Their Islamic State captors let them go because they were devout Muslims, the two say.

Investigators hope to travel to the Philippines to search for more clues.

Officials won’t say how much was taken.

Lawsuit alleges bankers were involved in a multi-year conspiracy with North Korean hackers, casino operators.

The bank is trying to recoup $15 million recovered by authorities in the Philippines.

Eight people were killed in a bank robbery on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Atiur Rahman admits bank was slow to notify Finance Ministry about the theft.

The army is prepared to string barbed wire around refugee camps, top general says.

Beef prices in Bangladesh have shot up at least 30 percent due to India’s crackdown on the cross-border, black market trade.

Critics describe rightwing government’s move against beef consumption as “food fascism.”

The controversial ban remained in effect despite the approaching Eid-ul-Adha holiday.

Two Muslims are severely burned in a petrol-bomb attack in Jammu.

Saliha Ben Ali founded an NGO whose mission is to counter the radicalization of youths.

At least 6 people injured in three days of inter-religious riots are in critical condition.

Trawlers from Bangladesh, Thailand and Taiwan are entering Indian waters illegally, fisheries federation says.

At least 10 people have been killed in less than a month in violence blamed on political feud.

Dhaka plans to relocate about 3,000 people from Cox’s Bazar camps early next month.

Nepal skipped BIMSTEC training, a day after reaching port deal with China.

Little is known about young man who fled to India after a madrassa principle accused him of blasphemy.

U.S.-based news portal has been inaccessible for two days amid concerns over a crackdown on criticism of nation's handling of COVID-19.

Niladri Chottopaddhya, whose pen name was Niloy Neel, became the fourth secular blogger killed by alleged Islamists this year.

Meanwhile, police in Dhaka say they have arrested nine suspected extremists.

The overall convictions of eight defendants are the first among five slayings of secular bloggers since February 2013.

Messages posted on victim’s Facebook page praise the murder.

But members of the country’s secular blogging community don’t feel safe and are trying to flee abroad.

Both suspects in the slaying of Niladri Chottopaddhya belong to the outlawed group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), police say.

One suspect is the alleged acting chief of Ansarullah Bangla Team, police say.