Bangladesh executes 5 leaders of 1975 military coup that killed independence leader, familyBangladesh 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. The five ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh executed five convicted killers of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Wednesday, officials at a Dhaka prison said. Mujib and most of his family were killed in 1975 in a revolt by young army officers. One of his two surviving daughters, Sheikh Hasina, is now the country ...

Bangladesh to execute 1975 coup leaders this month after court rejects final pleaFive 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. In November, a five-member Supreme Court jury dismissed the ...

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. Sadeque Hossain Khoka told AFP the sprawling metropolis, which has an official population of 12 million, has only 48 public toilets -- one for ...