Bangladesh News

Calcutta, Nov. 10: The Bengal bypoll results today left Mamata Banerjee a winner twice over - the Left slide worsened and her ally Congress stumbled in its north Bengal stronghold.

UNB, Dhaka BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday said their repeated allegations against the ruling party's conspiracy to foil its December 8 national council have proved right by the recent incidents of setting fire to its offices in different areas by the ruling party activists.

Wholesale medicine markets in the capital and Chittagong city observed a five-hour strike yesterday protesting seizure of huge medicines and arrest of three staff from a drug store in the port city on Wednesday.

Dhaka: The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh, along with the embassies of the U.S. and the U.K., was the target of Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT whose operatives were arrested here recently, police said on Sunday.

Dhaka, Nov 9 Bangladesh wants custody of fugitive former army officers hiding abroad, who killed founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on Aug 14, 1975, for an ongoing murder trial.

Five army officers detained for interrogation have named six of their former superiors as masterminds behind last month's bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh, said intelligence agency sources.

DHAKA: Bangladesh has strongly protested at the unprovoked shooting and killing of a minor girl inside its territory by the Border Security Force of India, according to the ministry of foreign affairs.

Tajikistan News.Net Monday 9th November, 2009 Neglected for long, Bangladesh's railway is up for a make-over to cope with the growing need for connectivity within the country and to prepare for joining the Asian rail network.

Dhaka, Nov 8: A plan to attack the US embassy here was hatched in Pakistan by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba , Bangladeshi investigators have said.

Referring to neighbours and Fire Department officials, the newspaper said the fire 'started in the basement of an illegally subdivided house in Queens'. Police identified one of the dead as SD Jahan, 31.

Three Bangladeshis died and four others received burn injuries after a fire broke out in the basement of their house in New York City in the United States early Saturday.

The Border Security Force has asked its Bangladesh counterparts to hand over militants from India's northeast and convicted Indian nationals hiding in their territory, a BSF spokesman said here Sunday.

Bhutan may sell power to Bangladesh in return for more imports, including fruits and vegetables, as the South Asian nations discussed trade and tourism as well as cooperation in setting up industries.

Bangladesh News.Net Friday 6th November, 2009 Three Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, who had surveyed the area around the US mission in the Bangladesh capital and were allegedly planning to attack it, have been arrested.

Tajikistan News.Net Thursday 5th November, 2009 The European Union's bilateral free trade agreements with India, Southeast Asian nations and South Korea may pose a potential threat to Bangladesh, a report quoting officials of the European Commission has said.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party is observing the National Revolution and Solidarity Day on Saturday marking the civil-military "uprising" that led to release of then army chief Ziaur Rahman on this very day in 1975.

Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders, arrested with links to a plot to attack the US embassy in Dhaka, were placed on a two-day remand yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Bangladesh government will seek retrial of former army officers responsible for killing four leaders who were part of the country's government-in-exile during the 1971 freedom movement.

Power-starved Bangladesh has decided to use solar power in all new public buildings now to save electricity as a means of stop-gap period as the country has signed agreement for nuclear power with Russia.

Two senior separatist leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom , arrested in Bangladesh, are now in the custody of Assam Police, officials Friday said.