Tag: Bangladesh
Customs seizes 17kg gold bars at Bangladesh airport
Customs officials on Monday said it seized 150 gold bars weighing 17.4 kg at Bangladesh’s Shah Amanat International Airport in seaport city Chattogram from...
Train collides with bus in Bangladesh, kills 12
At least 12 people were killed when a train ploughed into a bus on Saturday morning at a rail crossing in Bangladesh’s Joypurhat district,...
Nigeria, Bangladesh to consolidate mutually rewarding relationship – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria and Bangladesh will consolidate the mutually rewarding relationship between the two countries. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the...
Bangladesh sentences 5 men to death for gang rape
A Bangladeshi court has given five men the death penalty for the gang rape of a minor girl in the central district of Tangail...
Bangladesh reports 3,531 new COVID-19 cases, 39 more deaths
Bangladesh recorded over 3,500 more COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total in the country to 112,306. A senior health ministry official, Nasima Sultana, said...
China sends medical experts to Bangladesh to help fight COVID
A team of medical experts sent by the Chinese government on Monday departed from Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, for Bangladesh to help...
Over 6,000 police infected with COVID-19 in Bangladesh, 16 killed
As many as 6,206 police personnel, including 1,828 in capital Dhaka, have now tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 in Bangladesh. AKM Kamrul Ahsan, Public...
Covid-19: Bangladesh announces $8.5bn bailout package
Bangladesh has announced an economic stimulus package worth over 8.5 billion dollars to cushion the shock of the global coronavirus pandemic. “I hope our economy...
5 men get death penalty in Bangladesh over 1971 war crimes
A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital of Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced five men to death for crimes against humanity during the country’s...
9 killed after train hits wedding party minibus in Bangladesh
At least nine people were killed when a speeding train hit a minibus carrying a wedding party at a railway level crossing in western...