Bangladesh cricketer, Shakib Al Hasan, diagnosed with dengue fever
Bangladeshi international cricketer, Shakib Al Hasan has been diagnosed with the mosquito borne viral disease, dengue fever, according to a Radio New Zealand report today. Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al HasanPublic More...
Bangladeshi man stands trial for the rape of a 6-year-old girl in a Dubai restaurant bathroom
A Bangladeshi janitor stood trial yesterday in Dubai for allegedly raping a child in a restaurant bathroom two months ago, according to a Gulf News report. United Arab Emirates (UAE)Image/CIA According to the charges, More...
Bangladesh: Workers rescue ‘Reshma’ out of the rubble of the collapsed garment factory 17 days later
In a miraculous story from Dhaka, a young woman has been found alive in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory, 17 days after the fact. Bangladesh rescueImage/Video Screen Shot Rescue workers were surprised to More...
Bangladesh factory owner, Sohel Rana, linked to biker gang, guns and drugs
Building codes were unenforced, regulatory oversight is flimsy, and the warnings were all ignored as the owner of the Bangaladesh factory which collapsed, killing over 370 people, will face serious charges. Now More...
Mohammed Sohel Rana, Bangladesh factory owner captured as death toll tops 370
The owner of a factory building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing hundreds of garment workers was arrested on Sunday trying to flee to India, police said. Factory bosses and engineers have already been detained More...
Bangladesh building collapse death toll rises to over 350, 4 arrests made but owner still running from the law
Two factory bosses and two engineers were arrested in Bangladesh on Saturday, three days after the collapse of a building where low-cost clothing was made for US brands killed at least 352 people. More were being More...
Bangladesh garment factory collapses killing 87, traps scores more
An eight-story garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed on Wednesday, killing least 87 people and trapping many more under a mess of concrete and rubble. Bangladesh map/CIA Rescuers are searching, pulling away debris, More...
Bangladesh: Nipah virus has killed more than 80 percent of those infected in 2013 outbreak
While there is much attention over the outbreaks in China (H7N9 avian influenza) and the Middle East with the new coronavirus, Bangladesh has been in a battle with a viral disease outbreak that is killing a whopping More...
Bangladesh reports human H5N1 avian influenza death
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research in Dhaka has reported the seventh case of human infection of H5N1 avian influenza, according to a IEDCR release. According to Bangladeshi health authorities, More...
19 Children rescued from Islamic madrassa in Bangladesh
Nineteen Christian children who were to be sold to Islamic boarding schools (‘madrassas’) in Bangladesh have been rescued, a religious rights group said. photo Imagens Evangélicas via Flickr BosNewsLife More...
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis pleads guilty in Federal bank terrorist plot of 2012
A Bangladeshi man who tried to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York remotely only to find that the bomb was fake and his plot had been under the constant surveillance of federal agents pleaded guilty last More...
As swine flu spreads in parts of India, Bangladesh health officials on alert
With the number of H1N1 influenza cases and deathsincreasing dramatically in some states of India this year, health officials in neighboring Bangladesh are on alert , according to a Xinhau report today. Bangladesh More...
Nipah virus death toll now at 10 in Bangladesh
Pteropus batsPublic domain image/ Robotbreeder at the wikipedia project In a follow-up to a story last week, the death toll due to Nipah virus so far this year in Bangladesh has risen to 10 according to Bangladesh’s More...
Bangladesh: Death toll from Nipah virus now at eight people this year
With the announcement of two additional fatalities from the lethal zoonotic disease, Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) said this brings the total More...
Bangladesh bats found to have Ebola antibodies according to study
Rousettus aegyptiacus–the Egyptian fruit batImage/Zoharby via Wikimedia Commons Newly published research shows that a percentage of fruit bats in Bangladesh were found to have Ebola virus antibodies, suggesting More...
UK court hears details of 8 bombing plans by three suspects: Irfan Naseer, Ashik Ali and Irfan Khalid
Three terrorists developed plots to set off eight suicide bombs which could have been bigger than the July 7 London attacks, a British court heard Monday. Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali Irfan Naseer, 31, and Irfan More...
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, man arrested attempting to blow up Federal Reserve
One man was arrested in a federal terrorism sting targeting the Federal Reserve in lower Manhattan. Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis twitter photo Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, age 21, was arrested Wednesday morning More...
Muslims in Bangladesh torch Buddhist temples in protest of ‘blasphemy’ to Muhammad
Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims set fire to at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran before authorities restored order. Bangladesh map/CIA The AP report detailed More...