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On May 31, Pakistan lost to Bangladesh by 62 runs in the 1999 World Cup

It was the second group of Bangladeshis rounded up in Singapore since 27 were arrested in late 2015

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ruling Awami League is looking to tighten its grip on power in the polls

The six were among eight Bangladeshi men detained in April under Singapore's colonial-era Internal Security Act

Hackers who stole $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank have been linked to an attack on a bank in Philippines

Disaster management chief says thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed and 24 people had been killed in total

'The workers who were resting in the upper floors died due to suffocation from smoke'

Authorities take more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall

The homeopathic doctor was killed on the spot, and his companion suffered serious wounds

JI leader Motiur Rahman was recently executed for crimes against humanity. Here is a poem Bal found to remember him

The university campus has been largely deserted since English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique was hacked

Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, 58, an English professor at Rajshahi University, was killed on his way to work last month

Nizami was the fifth opposition figure executed since Bangladesh set up a controversial war crimes tribunal in 2010

Thirty-four people were killed on Thursday and another 25 over the next two days around the country, says official

Police say the unnamed man was a member of a local 'Islamist' militant outfit

We have had our chance when Bangladesh was East Pakistan and we blew it

Villagers find Maung Shue U Chak's dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple, no responsibility claimed

Sartaj Aziz says Islamabad will take the matter up with other countries

Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged at Dhaka prison after refusing clemency appeal

Motiur Rahman Nizami, was hanged at a Dhaka jail for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war

The 'no-ball' taunt enraged batsman who picked up a stump and hit wicketkeeper on back of his head

Nizami was the fifth and most senior opposition figure executed since Hasina's war crimes tribunal in 2010

Foreign Office says Bangladesh killing opposition leaders through flawed trials

Police fire rubber bullets at 500 Jamaat activists as they become violent while protesting the execution

Jamaat calls a nationwide strike for Thursday in protest over Nizami's execution

Bangladeshi police charged the 29-year-old pacer with charges of assault and torture last year

Villagers found Mohammad Shahidullah's body in a pool of blood in a mango grove in Rajshahi

Nizami took over as leader of Jamaat in 2000 and was a minister in the Islamist-allied government of 2001-2006

New hit-list includes the head of a university, journalists and ruling party officials

Local Muslims had filed a complaint against victim in 2012 for making comments about the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh)

Shahadat Hossain, who has denied abusing the girl in the past, apologised for his act and called it a mistake

Six men carrying machetes and guns killed Xulhaz Mannan activist Mahbub Tonoy on Monday in Dhaka

The comments sparked protests by students, most of whom are Muslim, and angry villagers descended on the school

Unidentified attackers entered an apartment at Kalabagan and hacked two people to death by machetes

Girls are married too young and many women fear for their safety in the slum's narrow alleyways after dark

Sarker suspects threat linked to his recent scathing criticism of the government

Shafik Rehman, a well-known pro-opposition magazine editor in Bangladesh was arrested this month for sedition

Attackers wielding machetes almost beheaded English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique

Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers demand justice on third anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters

Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, hacked from behind with machetes as he walked to the bus station from his home

While there have been improvements at some larger factories, many of smaller sub-contractors have yet to be inspected

At least 20 people from multiple foreign countries have been found to be involved

Officers also said they had found evidence linking the editor to a conspiracy to murder PM Sheikh Hasina's son

Hardline clerics have branded the Bengali new year celebrations as "un-Islamic and Haram (forbidden)"

Thousands of officers to be deployed for the annual street parade on April 14

People heard the attackers shouting "Allahu akbar" as they fled

The supply dates back to 1970s, when the government drilled millions of shallow tube wells for clean water

Two people were killed and 30 injured in the bus attack that Khaleda is wanted for

The villagers say their protests were peaceful but police say 11 officers were hurt

Unidentified hackers shifted $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank's account to a nondescript bank in Manila