Bangladesh

Ousted former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, a Dhaka war crimes court ruled on Monday.

A group of London Tower Hamlets councillors are running for Parliament in Bangladesh, a report states.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who resigned and fled the country in August 2024 amid violent protests, confirmed on Wednesday that she has been living in India since her abdication – and she “would love to go home,” if “law and order genuinely prevailed.”

Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Reuters on Wednesday that millions of voters in her party, the Awami League, will boycott next year’s election after the party was barred from contesting the polls.

A Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 170.

The Chinese government issued a warning, the state-run Global Times reported on Monday, to its male citizens in Bangladesh discouraging the use of local matchmaking services or acceptance of offers to “buy” a wife — a growing threat to social stability as the nation’s marriage rate plummets and gender disparity skyrockets.

Thousands of angry Islamist men marched Saturday across the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to protest against proposals guaranteeing equal rights for women in the Muslim-majority country.

Selcuk Bayraktar, chief technology officer of Turkey’s drone powerhouse Baykar, said on Thursday that Turkish companies now control 65 percent of the worldwide market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

Former American President Donald Trump marked Diwali on Thursday, one of the largest Hindu celebrations of the year, vowing to protect the religious freedom of Hindu Americans and making a final pitch to Indian American voters generally.

Hijab-wearing constable praised as a “role model” for wielding baton against anti-lockdown protesters while in religious dress faces misconduct hearing.

The former head of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, allegedly sold dead bodies and biomedical waste.

A Hindu mob in Ghaziabad, India, attacked a group of Muslims on Friday night, apparently as an act of revenge for Muslim mobs targeting Hindus in Bangladesh following the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last week.

Sheikh Hasina Wajid, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, issued a statement on Sunday accusing the U.S. government of orchestrating the events that led to her abdication last week, because she refused to give the U.S. control over a strategic island in the Bay of Bengal.

The Bangladeshi Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council (BHBCUC) said on Tuesday that hundreds of Hindu homes, businesses, and temples have been vandalized since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced out of office by protesters over the weekend.

Indian intelligence officials on Tuesday accused China and Pakistan of orchestrating the protests that drove Prime Minister Sheik Hasina of Bangladesh to resign and flee the country.

Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, resigned on Monday and fled the country after a month of huge anti-government protests.

The Indian state of Kerala issued a health alert on Monday after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. Over a hundred other residents in the area have been identified as high-risk potential patients.

A consortium of media agencies in Germany and Sweden reported on Tuesday that members of Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan security units accused of torturing prisoners are being deployed on dozens of U.N. peacekeeping missions, adding another scandal to a string of embarrassments for the United Nations.

The Indian government announced plans to implement a controversial 2019 law that fast-tracks citizenship for non-Muslim refugees.

Woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State has lost appeal against UK government’s decision to revoke her citizenship.

Anastazja Rubinska was found dead after a search for the missing Polish citizen, with a 32-year-old Bangladeshi citizen arrested.

A 15-year-old from Bangladesh who accidentally became locked inside a shipping container while playing hide-and-seek ended up far from home.

An Italian policewoman in Naples who had just left work for the evening was reportedly raped by a Bangladeshi migrant after being attacked from behind.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

Muslims across India on Friday continued protests sparked by comments from a now-suspended spokeswoman for the ruling Hindu-nationalist BJP party that were denounced as insulting to Islam’s Muhammad.

A source inside the Indian government said on Monday that several desperate foreign countries are pleading with India to supply over 1.5 million tons of wheat, to compensate for shortfalls from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other factors.

Two Bangladeshis were arrested by Italian police after allegedly blackmailing a woman with sexual material they had stolen from her phone. 

Tower Hamlets, London, has voted for Mohammad Lutfur Rahman — removed from office for “corrupt and illegal practices” in a 2014 election — as Mayor.

The Bangladeshi Education Ministry extended an existing closure of its public and private schools this week through February 20 citing concerns about the spread of coronavirus, “raising eyebrows” among some observers as the decision coincided with the federal government’s easing of gathering restrictions for non-essential business events, such as trade fairs thronged by thousands of people, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

Muslim mob attacks across Bangladesh have killed at least six people, including four Hindus, after sparking last Friday in response to an image posted to social media allegedly depicting the desecration of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, during a recent Hindu festival, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Tuesday.

Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday shot and killed Mohib Ullah, a high-profile advocate for the Rohingya, at a refugee camp for the Muslim minority group in Bangladesh, local police confirmed to Reuters on Thursday.

At least 17 migrants drowned and more than 300 were rescued by Tunisian and Libyan naval units in the Mediterranean.

Fishermen on the Gulf of Morrosquillo in Colombia have rescued several groups of Bangladeshi nationals, all apparently shipwrecked after their makeshift vessel en route north collapsed, Colombian media reported Wednesday.

Spanish police arrested a woman for cutting off the penis of her Bangladeshi boss while he was allegedly trying to rape her.

Over 100 planes from India have landed in Britain following the country being placed on the UK’s list of travel prohibited countries over concerns about the Indian variant of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s borders policies have allowed at least 20,000 travellers from India to enter the country despite concerns over the novel variant of the coronavirus there.