Dhaka, Bangladesh News

Wangala, a religious festival of the Garos, is held in honour of Saljong, the Sun-god of fertility.

UNB, Dhaka United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ameerah Haq of Bangladesh as his Special Representative for Timor-Leste and Head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste to succeed Atul Khare of India.

Uzbekistan News.Net Friday 4th December, 2009 Bangladeshi and Indian experts began deliberations Friday to sort out details of a bilateral pact on sharing of Teesta river waters, ahead of summit level talks scheduled in New Delhi Dec 19.

Details his role to magistrate; reveals involvement of top politicians, officials in Aug 21 grenade attack Founder of banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami Sheikh Abdus Salam yesterday confessed to his involvement in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally.

's northeast, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here yesterday, a day after top ULFA leader Ababinda Rajkhowa was reported to have been taken into custody there.

DHAKA: The Bangladesh government has sued opposition leader Khaleda Zia's two sons and their business partner who were owners of the boat that capsized last week killing 84 people.

GENEVA: Bangladesh demanded a quick resolution of duty- and quota-free market access for least developed countries on the second day of the 7th ministerial summit of the World Trade Organisation.

DHAKA: Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman and one of the founders of Indian separatist group United Liberation Front of Asom , was arrested in Dhaka on Monday, reports BBC Bangla Service.

The outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam has suffered a severe blow with police in Bangladesh arresting its chairman and founder Arabinda Rajkhowa somewhere near Dhaka.

Khaleda Zia, gestures while sitting in front of a portrait of her and her late husband, former President Ziaur Rahman in Dhaka, 19 December 2006.

Tajikistan News.Net Wednesday 2nd December, 2009 Bangladesh has moved the US authorities through the Interpol to secure the custody of a former army officer convicted for murdering the country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

DHAKA: Detained former BNP ministers Lutfozzaman Babar and Abdus Salam Pintu had assisted banned Islamist group Huji in its botched attempt to kill Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on August 21, 2004.

Uzbekistan News.Net Monday 30th November, 2009 Overcrowding has been cited as the main reason for the boat capsize in Bhola in southern Bangladesh last week where the death toll has touched 76, with more bodies suspected to be still trapped, media reports said Tuesday.

DHAKA: The northeast India's main security outfit - Assam Rifles claimed that intense pressure from Bangladesh government forced the northeast militants including ULFA and other extremist outfits, who engineered a number of cruel acts causing deaths and injuries to hundreds of innocent people in the region, were on the look out for safe sanctuaries ...

The Tripura government has asked the central intelligence agencies to confirm media reports from Dhaka about the arrest of a wanted northeast India terrorist leader in Bangladesh, police said here Tuesday.

E.J. MacEwan has been appointed General Manager at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Concerned over the amount of meat eaten during Eid-ul-Azha festivities when heart complications increase by about 10 percent, Bangladesh's medicos have issued a warning against excessive consumption of red or processed meat.

DHAKA: Several hundred activists joined by a British member of parliament gathered on Monday at a border crossing between Bangladesh and India to protest against the planned building of a controversial dam by India.

THE Franco Bangladesh Association of Scholars and Trainees and the French Embassy in Dhaka at a recently organised seminar on the air quality informed that Dhaka is now ranked as the third most polluted city in the world after Karachi and Cairo.

Bangladesh News.Net Monday 30th November, 2009 The passport of Major Noor Chowdhury, one of the 12 former Bangladeshi Army officers convicted for killing former president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 34 years ago, has been seized in Canada.