Former Bangladesh military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad died Sunday aged 89, after weeks in a Dhaka hospital, officials said. General Ershad ruled Bangladesh for nearly a decade before being ousted from power in a pro-democracy upsurge in 1990 and was jailed for years on corruption charges.

Former Bangladesh military dictator Ershad dies at 89

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday criticised a top US lawmaker's proposal to merge Myanmar's restive Rakhine state into her country, saying it was an attempt to "start a fire in the region" and the move was "not acceptable".

Sheikh Hasina slams US lawmaker's proposal to integrate Rakhine with Bangladesh

China and Bangladesh agreed to advance their cooperation under the multi-billion dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), following talks between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday.

China, Bangladesh agree to advance Belt and Road Initiative cooperation

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina described her country's ties with India as ''organic'' at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting. Hasina is in China on a five-day visit for official talks with the Chinese leadership.

Sheikh Hasina calls India-Bangladesh ties 'organic' at World Economic Forum annual meeting in China

Nine members of the main opposition party in Bangladesh were sentenced to death while 25 others handed life terms by a court for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 25 years ago, a government lawyer said.

Bangladesh court sentences nine to death for 1994 bid on PM Sheikh Hasina's life

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit China in July first week, the first trip to Beijing after her re-election, during which the Asian giant may press for speeding up of the Bangladesh-China- India-Myanmar (BCIM) economic corridor which has failed to take off.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina to visit China in July

A 65-day ban on fishing from the sea in Bangladesh is impacting not only the vulnerable fishermen but also the whole supply chain -- from traders to boat owners to fish factories and their workers across the country.

Vulnerable fishermen and supply chain hit by fishing ban in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday greeted the countrymen on the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of Awami League Party.

Awami League was formed to bring back Bangladesh’s independence: PM Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh's ex-premier and opposition BNP chief Khaleda Zia, serving a 10-year jail term, received a temporary relief on Tuesday after a high court granted her six-month bail in two defamation cases.

Bangladesh: Former PM Khaleda Zia gets 6-month bail in two defamation cases

Half a million refugee Rohingya children are shut out of local schools in Bangladesh, leaving many in religious madrassas where critics say educational standards are low and students are vulnerable to indoctrination.

Shut out from Bangladesh schools, Rohingyas turn to madrassas

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday accused Myanmar of being reluctant in repatriating their over a million Rohingya nationals defying its promise and alleged that some international aid agencies want to keep the refugee crisis alive.

Bangladesh: PM Hasina accuses Myanmar of defying promise over repatriation of Rohingyas 

Bangladesh authorities have suspended an immigration official at the airport here for allowing a senior pilot of the national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines to fly abroad without his passport to bring back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from Finland, said a media report on Sunday.

Bangladesh suspends immigration official for letting pilot travel without passport

For a second time, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will miss her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi's swearing-in on May 30 as she will be on a three-nation foreign visit, officials here said Monday.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina will not attend Modi's swearing-in ceremony for second time

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday congratulated PM Narendra Modi on his landslide election victory. In a statement, Hasina said that the resounding victory of BJP-led NDA in the polls is a reflection of the trust and confidence reposed on PM Modi by the people of the world's largest democracy.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulates PM Modi on election victory 

Human Rights Watch on Friday slammed Bangladesh authorities after a series of new arrests this week under the country's notorious internet laws, raising worries over the freedom of expression in the South Asian nation.

Human Rights Watch slams Bangladesh arrest of Prominent poet, lawyer

The body of eight-year-old Zayan Chowdhury, grandson of a cousin of Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, arrived at Dhaka airport Wednesday and was promptly sent over to the house of his grandfather, parliament member Sheikh Salim.

Body of eight-year old blast victim related to Bangladeshi PM arrives home from Sri Lanka

“I have friends in the opposition also. I have lunch with them once in a year or so. We are connected like a family, which you do not see on the outside. This may harm me in the elections but Mamata didi does select kurta for me and sends it to me once in a year. Bangladeshi PM (Sheikh Hasina) also sends me Bengali sweets," said PM Modi.

PM says Mamata sends him kurta & he has friends in opposition in an interview to Akshay Kumar

At least 290 killed and more than 500 injured in a series of blasts, took place yesterday on the eve of Easter.

Bangladesh's PM kin dead in Sri Lanka blasts

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's kin was reported dead in Sri Lanka blasts on Monday that ripped through the island-nation and killed as many as 290 people.

Sri Lanka: Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina's 8-year-old grandson killed in Shangri-La hotel blast

With the death of 19 more people, the toll from the deadly fire at a high-rise office building in Bangladesh's capital rose to 25, fire officials said. A massive fire engulfed a 22-storey building in Dhaka's posh Banani area on Thursday, in the second major blaze to hit the capital since last month.

Bangladesh fire death toll rises to 25: Officials

A woman from Hyderabad has appealed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to rescue her son, who is stranded in Bangladesh. Zuleqa Begum, mother of Mohammed Imran has claimed that his passport and other belongings were forcibly taken by some unidentified persons in Bangladesh.

Hyderabad: Woman urges foreign minister Sushma Swaraj to rescue her son from Bangladesh

A Bangladesh court granted FIFA council member Mahfuza Akhter Kiron bail on Tuesday, her lawyer said, days after she was arrested on suspicion of defamation after saying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was neglecting football in the cricket-mad country.

Football: Bangladesh FIFA official held in defamation case gets bail

Hundreds of Bangladeshi students blocked roads and set a bus ablaze in Dhaka on Tuesday in protest over the death of a student who was run over by a bus, police and witnesses said, putting the spotlight again on the city's dangerous traffic.

Protests erupt in Bangladesh's capital after bus runs over student

A lawyer for FIFA council member Mahfuza Akhter Kiron is set to file a petition in a Bangladesh court on Tuesday seeking bail for the official who has been arrested in a defamation case following her criticism of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladesh FIFA official arrested for 'defaming' PM Sheikh Hasina

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