Story Archive
2015-04-29
Indian policewoman was among dozens of climbers at base camp when Nepal’s earthquake triggered a “tsunami of snow.”
2015-04-28
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party also accuses the ruling Awami League of intimidating voters and candidates.
2015-04-27
India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and other Asian nations are helping in the relief effort.
2015-04-24
Al Jazeera International calls ban “disproportionate” and says it stopped showing the controversial map in September 2014.
2015-04-24
Two years after the worst industrial accident in Bangladesh’s history, factories remain unsafe and many victims are waiting for compensation, activists say.
2015-04-22
The government says the move is needed to make way for development projects that will spur economic growth.
2015-04-21
Beef prices in Bangladesh have shot up at least 30 percent due to India’s crackdown on the cross-border, black market trade.
2015-04-20
Meanwhile, two cops are arrested in connection with a teenager’s killing.
2015-04-17
Masarat Alam Bhat was freed in March after four years in jail without trial on suspicion of fomenting street protests in 2010.
2015-04-16
The Bangladeshi economy appears to have lost U.S. $2.2 billion in added value, the bank’s economists say.
2015-04-14
Maoist guerrillas kill a dozen policemen in two attacks in Chhattisgarh.
2015-04-13
The disputed Himalayan territory is trying to resettle thousands of displaced Hindus.
2015-04-13
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman was convicted for leading an attack in 1971 in which 187 men were killed and dozens of women raped.
2015-04-10
Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi is the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
2015-04-09
Ranjan Chowdhury and Pradi Marak are senior United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) figures.
