APTOPIX Bangladesh Cold

2010-03-18T09:31:16Z

Monkeys cuddle together to warm themselves during a cold and foggy morning at the Dhaka zoo, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Six cold wave related deaths have been reported in the country and some districts in the north have reported an outbreak of cold related diseases. (AP Photo/ Pavel Rahman)

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Pietersen flops again in Bangladesh cricket match

2010-03-09T08:16:10Z

<div><p>Ace England batsman Kevin Pietersen failed to find form ahead of a two-Test series against Bangladesh, scoring just 20 in a drawn warm-up match on Tuesday.</p><p>Pietersen, who contributed only 41 in three one-day internationals against the hosts recently, also flopped in the first innings of ...

Pietersen flops again in Bangladesh

2010-03-09T03:16:55Z

Bangladesh police arrest Facebook share tipster

2010-03-04T09:16:47Z

<div><p>A Dhaka-based Facebook stocks tipster with more than 10,000 followers has been arrested on charges of illegally manipulating Bangladesh's overheated stock exchange, police said Thursday.</p><p>Mahbub Sarwar, 26, a prolific blogger who provided online stock tips through the popular social networking site, will be ch...

'Bangladesh arrests Pakistan militant suspect'

2010-02-28T03:15:42Z

<div><p>Bangladesh has arrested a suspected Pakistani militant and four of its own nationals who planned to carry out attacks in the country, a spokesman for the elite force that made the arrests said on Sunday.</p><p>Commander Mohammad Sohel of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said the five, aged between 26 and 30, were members of

Anger after deadly Bangladesh factory fire

2010-02-26T08:17:35Z

<div><p>Locked exit gates may to be blame for the high death toll from a fire at a Bangladesh factory that makes sweaters for clothing brand H and M, which killed 21 people, police and witnesses said Friday.</p><p>An electrical short-circuit likely triggered the fire at the sweater factory in Gazipur town, but an official probe has been launched into possible breaches of fire safety regulations, local police chief

21 dead in Bangladesh sweater factory fire: police

2010-02-25T23:16:40Z

<div><p>At least 21 people were killed and 40 injured in a blaze that engulfed a clothing factory in an industrial town north of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said.</p><p>The fire broke out on the second floor of the Garib and Garib Sweater factory at Gazipur late Thursday, trapping scores of workers who were knitting sweaters for export, fire brigade director

Twenty-one dead, 50 hurt in Bangladesh factory fire

2010-02-25T13:01:04Z

<div><p>DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed and nearly 50 injured in a fire at a Bangladesh clothing factory on Thursday, doctors and police said.</p><p>The fire raged for more than two hours at the Garib and Garib Newaj Garment factory in Gazipur, about 50 km (30 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka.<...

Bangladeshi mutiny a 'good lesson' for some

2010-02-25T04:16:30Z

<div><p>For some in Bangladesh, a mutiny a year ago that left 74 dead strengthened the democratic government, while others allege that the use of torture to extract confessions is undermining the justice process.</p><p>In the headquarters of Bangladesh's border guard force, where the uprising began, the walls of Major General Mohammad Mainul Islam's otherwise immaculate office are still pockmarked with bullet holes.</...

A year on, Bangladesh mutiny a 'good lesson'

2010-02-25T04:16:28Z

Bangladesh's stock frenzy raises fear of new crash

2010-02-21T15:16:11Z

<div><p>In a run-down office in downtown Dhaka, excited investor Mizanur Rahman has just spent his life savings of 3,000 dollars on shares despite knowing nothing about market fundamentals.</p><p>Everyone in this unofficial trading room, one of hundreds across the country, is glued to a screen showing share price movements on the

Bangladesh signs power plant deal with India

2010-02-20T12:16:37Z

<div><p>Energy-hungry Bangladesh has signed a 1.7-billion-dollar deal with India to build two coal-fired power plants in the country's south to ease a huge electricity shortage, an official said Saturday.</p><p>The plants, which will have a total daily generating capacity of 1,320 megawatts, will help alleviate the severe power shortfalls suffered by impoverished Bangladesh.</...

Bangladesh hangs 5 who killed founder in 1975 coup

2010-02-22T14:10:55Z

<div id="subtitle">Bangladesh executes 5 leaders of 1975 military coup that killed independence leader, family</div><div><p>Bangladesh executed five former military officers Thursday for their role in the 1975 massacre of the country's independence leader and several of his relatives and aides at a Dhaka home during a coup, authorities said.&lt...

Killers of Bangladesh independence leader executed

2010-02-22T14:09:18Z

<div><p>DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh executed five convicted killers of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Wednesday, officials at a Dhaka prison said.</p><p>Mujib and most of his family were killed in 1975 in a re...

Bangladesh to execute 1975 coup leaders this month

2010-02-22T14:17:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Bangladesh to execute 1975 coup leaders this month after court rejects final plea</div><div><p>Five former soldiers convicted in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup will be executed this month, the country's law minister said Wednesday.</p><p>In November, a five-member Supreme Court jury dismissed the men's ...

Mobile toilets hit Dhaka's streets

2010-02-22T14:52:01Z

<div><p>Bangladesh has ordered an emergency deployment of 100 mobile toilets in its capital to head off a worrying rise in public defecation, Dhaka's mayor said Tuesday.</p><p>Sadeque Hossain Khoka told AFP the sprawling metropolis, which has an official population of 12 million, has only 48...

Millions gather for prayer in Bangladesh

2010-02-22T15:45:42Z

<div><p>At least four million Muslims attended prayers on Sunday near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka at the climax of the largest annual Islamic event after the hajj, police said.</p><p>The three-day Bishwa Ijtema, or World Muslim Congregation, concluded after an Indian imam led final prayers with devotees filling every open space, rooftops and miles (kilometres) of roads leading to the congregati...

India, Bangladesh sign five pacts to cement ties

2010-02-22T22:09:41Z

<div><p>Leaders of India and Bangladesh met in New Delhi on Monday with talks focused on strengthening the previously difficult ties between the two south Asian neighbours, an Indian official said.</p><p>Cross-border relations have improved in recent years and India and Bangladesh in New Delhi later Monday were due to focus on strengthening the previously difficult bilateral ties between the two south Asian neighbours.</p><p>Cross-border relations have improved in recent years, and Bangladesh is set to sign a prisoner exchange deal with India that will legalise the transfer of key separatist leaders its larger neighbour accuses of terrorism, Dhaka's foreign minister said Thursday.</p><p>A new agreement to combat international terrorism will also be signed during

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