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Sadeque Hossain Khoka was found guilty of amassing wealth illegally and of concealing information about his income

The United States and Canada have also asked their diplomats to restrict their movements

The incident sparked protests in the lawmaker's constituency Gaibandha and in Dhaka

Some eight million Bangladeshis suffer from kidney disease but donation is only legal between living relatives

Rangpur city police chief says Hoshi Kunio was buried in city's Munshipara graveyard early Tuesday morning

They carried out the attack to draw international attention and destabilise the country, police chief said

BCB is staging the lucrative T20 tournament from November 21, two years after it was halted by match-fixing scandal

Farmer hires women volunteers to kill rats in paddy, wheat fields and submits tails to agriculture office to count

Magistrate court in Rangpur remands two suspects into custody for ten days for intensive interrogation over murder

The grenade exploded while Muhammad Javed, leader of Jamaatul Mujahideen was in police custody

The JMB killed at least 28 people in 2005 when they carried out a series of bomb attacks on courts

Experts believe hardliners who have been shut out of political mainstream are opting for desperate measures

Bangladesh Nationalist Party has staged protests since Hasina's party won second consecutive term in January 2014

Shahadat Hossain was suspended last month when police raided his house after officers found the injured maid

Government is trying to calm escalating security fears after the attack was claimed by the Islamic State group

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says we have only heard about IS in Bangladesh but we have not found any of them

US embassy says its diplomats were instructed not to go outside overnight

Bangladesh officials promise top of the line security to appease the visitors

Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman says allegations against Shahadat Hossain have tarnished our image

Rapid Action Battalion says they have arrested head of a group called Ansarullah Bangla Team banned in May

Students are angry over a 7.5% value added tax slapped recently on fees for private universities

River erosion alone claims about 20,000 acres of land in Bangladesh every year

Indian home ministry says minority refugees will be allowed to stay back in the country on humanitarian grounds

Police raided the house of pace bowler and his wife Nritto Shahadat after officers found the injured and crying maid

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam says there is now no restriction to release 'Rana Plaza' movie

Millions of Bangladeshis worship at shrines, but militants consider shrine-goers as grave worshippers

22-year-old university student says I cannot close my eyes without having sleeping pills

Prosecutor Khandakar Abdul Mannan says court charged 13 including Delwar and his wife with causing death by negligence

Police brought the charges - the first in any of the four murders this year - in a Dhaka magistrates court

More than 1.5 million people have been hit by the disasters which destroyed around 30,000 homes

High Court order says movie breached a previous order by the same court by screening gruesome images of the disaster

They were arrested for providing 10.8 million taka ($135,000) to a new militant group called Shaheed Hamza Brigade

Editor arrested after posting that his life was in danger and the minister should be "held responsible" if he died

Bangladesh's elite security force says the British citizen is the main planner and financier of attacks on bloggers

They were given the penalties for adulterating paracetamol syrup used for babies

Samiul, accused of theft, was tied to a pole and then subjected to a brutal assault in which he pleaded for his life

Both men had confessed to being members of the hardline Ansarullah Bangla Team, says police

Bengali newspaper had questioned if it was ethical for judges to speak with appellants' families outside of court

The six, who include poets, bloggers and a journalist, all live in the southern city of Barisal

Myanmar state media says authorities handed over 159 people to their Bangladeshi counterparts

Bangladesh's national police chief warned bloggers they faced jail for posting material deemed offensive

Home Minister said intelligence agencies went straight to work after armed attackers hacked the blogger to death

Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network says Niloy Chakrabarti was killed after gang broke into his apartment

Zia is accused of costing the state $125 million by corruptly awarding contracts to an international firm

Killing comes after nationwide protests in July over lynching of another 13-year-old boy

Hosts defend decision of monsoon Tests after four days were washed out.

162 tiny islands of land -- 111 in Bangladesh, 51 in India -- officially handed over to countries surrounding them

In final hours before handover, villagers have been holding feasts and rehearsing their new national anthems

Local police chief Ataur Rahman says at least 150 houses of local fishermen were reportedly destroyed due to storm

Residents of the islands can choose to live in India or Bangladesh and will be granted citizenship