Bangladesh

TEHRAN: Twenty-three people died and dozens more were missing on Monday after a ferry capsized in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka following a collision with another vessel, rescue officials said. “We have so far recovered 23 bodies from the sunken ferry,” fire brigade official Enayet Hossain told AFP. “There were 50 …

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s telecom regulator has ordered operators to shut down services along the border with India citing security reasons, authorities said in a statement. Mobile network coverage has been suspended for one kilometre along the entire border with India until further notice “for the sake of the country’s security in …

  Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher of the seminary she attended. “The verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law,” prosecutor Hafez Ahmed …

DHAKA (Web Desk) Bangladesh’s main opposition party announced on Sunday it would not boycott next month’s general election and would challenge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the polls, despite its leader being in jail. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party said it would contest the December 23 election but has expressed fears it …

COLOMBO (Web Desk) The security guard of a minister in the sacked Sri Lankan government opened fire at an office on Sunday wounding three people, worsening a constitutional crisis in the island nation days after the president ousted the prime minister and appointed a new one.Police said the guard began …

JAKARTA (Web Desk) A Lion Air flight with at least 188 people on board is believed to have sunk after crashing into the sea off Indonesia ’s island of Java on Monday, shortly after take off from the capital on its way to the country’s tin-mining hub, officials said.A spokesman …

DHAKA (Web Desk) A Bangladesh court sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, lawyers said, after she was jailed for five years in a separate case in February.The terms will run concurrently, meaning she will spend an extra two …

DHAKA (Web Desk) A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to life in jail, and 19 more to death, over a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004, lawyers said.The opposition is in disarray ahead of general …

DHAKA (Web Desk) Mosammat Rekha’s older cousins grew up unable to read and write, their tiny village so frequently cut off from the nearest school by floods that would rise suddenly in their remote corner of disaster-prone Bangladesh.But seven-year-old Mosammat is learning her ABCs aboard a boat fitted with a …

DAR ES SALAAM (Web Desk) More than 100 bodies have been retrieved after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzanian state radio reported on Friday, and hundreds more were still feared missing as rescuers searched for survivors from daybreak on the morning after the disaster.Radio TBC Taifa reported the latest …