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Bangladesh joins hand with UNDP to benefit Bangladeshi women, girls for climate resilient solutions

Dhaka, July 7 (Xinhua/UNI) Bangladeshi Ministry of Women and Children Affairs has joined hands with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to implement a six-year project benefiting almost 700,000 people mostly women and adolescent girls for climate resilient solutions.

Half day strike against gas price hike in Bangladesh

Dhaka, July 7 (UNI): Left Democratic Alliance (LDA), a platform of left-leaning political parties, in Bangladesh will enforce a half-day nationwide hartal on Sunday protesting at the recent hike in gas prices.

Scores of Rohingya refugee shelters in Bangladesh destroyed by flooding

New York, July 6 (IBNS): Heavy monsoon rains in Bangladesh have drenched the Cox’s Bazar settlement, home to more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees, destroying some 273 shelters, and injuring 11 people, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. The huge refugee camp has been hit by three days of non-stop rain, and more heavy downpours are expected throughout next week, with four months of the monsoon season still to go.

Nine awarded death penalty, 25 life imprisonment for 1994 train attacks in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Jul 3 (Xinhua/UNI) A court in Bangladesh Pabna district, some 216 km west of capital Dhaka, has handed death penalty to nine people for attacks on a train decades back with a view to assassinating then opposition leader and now incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladesh: 30 BMP members sent to jail in Hasina train attack case of 1994

Dhaka, June 30 (IBNS): A Bangladeshi court has sent to jail 30 BNP members charged with conducting an armed attack on a train carrying Awami League president and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 25 years ago after withdrawing their bail, local media reported.

RAB detains 1 man from Chattogram with 9,910 yaba

Dhaka, June 29 (IBNS): Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Saturday claimed to have detained an alleged drug peddler with 9,910 pieces of yaba pills from Kotwali area of country's Chattogram city, media reports said.

Bangladesh: School teacher detained for allegedly raping 20 students

Dhaka, June 28 (IBNS): The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB on Thursday detained a teacher for allegedly raping at least 20 female students in Narayanganj area of Bangladesh, media reports said on Friday.

Bangladesh: Female Awami League leader hacked to death

Dhaka, June 26 (IBNS): Unknown attackers hacked to death a ruling female Awami League leader at Rupganj area of Bangladesh, media reports said on Wednesday.

Bangladesh government condemns attack on Abha International Airport

Dhaka, June 26 (IBNS): The Bangladesh foreign ministry on Wednesday condemned the attack on Abha International Airport of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthis.

China will play constructive role for Rohingyas, says envoy

Dhaka, Jun 25 (UNI): Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh  Zhang Zuo on Tuesday said that his country will play a 'constructive role' in resolving the Rohingya crisis.

None can destroy Awami League: Bangladesh PM

Dhaka, Jun 24 (UNI) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday described Bangladesh Awami League as one of the well-organised political parties in the subcontinent and expressed her firm confidence that none could destroy the organisation.

Human trafficking: Rohingya man, among two persons, killed in alleged shootout in Bangladesh

Dhaka, June 23 (IBNS): A Rohingya man and another person, who are accused in human trafficking cases, have died in a so-called shootout with police in Bangladesh's Cox’s Bazar area, media reports said on Sunday.

Bangladesh: Chinese national killed during clash at an under-construction power plant

Dhaka, June 19 (IBNS): Two people, including a Chinese national, were killed during a clash at an under-construction power plant in Kolapara upazila of Bangladesh, media reports said on Wednesday.

Nusrat murder: Ex-Sonagazi OC sent to jail after his bail was denied by Bangladeshi court

Dhaka, June 17 (IBNS): Days after he was arrested, court has denied bail to former officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station Moazzem Hossain, media reports said. He was later sent to jail.

Bangladesh Nusrat murder case: Sonagazi ex-OC Moazzem arrested

Dhaka, June 16 (IBNS): Nearly three weeks after an arrest warrant was issued against him, the Bangladesh police have arrested former Sonagazi OC Moazzem Hossain, whose name had emerged in the madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder incident.