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Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was temporarily released from prison by her rival, Sheikh Hasina, on humanitarian grounds.

A report on a secret court-martial reveals few details on the convictions in the Gu Dar Pyin village killings.

The man illegally entered Rakhine state from a refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh with his family.

Watchdog warns that such efforts could erode the people’s faith in government.

Since mid-July, the country’s youth also have protested the harassment of dissidents and critics of the monarchy.

Detentions come two days after the Malaysian coast guard killed a Vietnamese fisherman during a confrontation.

Insurgents target security details escorting students, teachers to campus on first day of school, officials say.

Born in Britain to Bangladeshi parents, Shamima Begum became radicalized and went to Syria when she was 15.

Thousands of Chinese who work on those projects are stuck in China because of related travel restrictions.

Police close hospitals, arrest staff for allegedly issuing false coronavirus test results.

The coronavirus could remain for years, the country’s health director predicts.

Ansar Al Islam and other groups go online to spread their extremist doctrine, police say.

Nation records its first coronavirus death as the number of cases increases to 14.

The infected person is a resident of the world largest refugee camp, officials said.

The country records more than 4,500 new infections over the last two days.

Nation has doubled the number of cyclone shelters to allow evacuees to maintain social distance, official says.

The storm lost strength before making landfall around 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The storm killed dozens of people, with most of the fatalities reported in West Bengal.

The statement comes as journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, others are locked up over social media posts.

Experts base worst-case scenario on population density and a weak health system that could be quickly overwhelmed.

The three cases include two people who recently came back from Italy, a viral hotspot.

Suspects were identified as members of Neo-JMB, a group that supports the Islamic State.

Union organizers in Bangladesh’s most dynamic industry have been threatened or victimized by violence, report says.

Police say the suspects were a drug dealer and members of a robbery gang.

“Justice will be done,” a prosecutor with the International Criminal Court tells reporters in Bangladesh.

Officials cut access nearly a year ago after about 200,000 marked anniversary of Myanmar exodus.

Hundreds of tons of biomedical waste are produced daily in Dhaka, according to a report in The Lancet journal.

Thirty migrants, including 26 Bangladeshis, were shot dead in the town of Mizdah on May 27.

Islamic State has announced a new Bengali-speaking unit ahead of Muslim holy day, police letter says.

Shafiqul Islam Kajol, who was last seen on March 10, was charged twice under the Digital Security Act.