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Bangladesh Development Reports Bangladeshi authorities must investigate the killing of protesters and release prisoners – including a prominent journalist and an opposition leader – arrested this week as part of an apparent crackdown against the opposition...

Dhaka – The missing joint secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Salahuddin Ahmed, was arrested in Indian state of Meghalaya, a newspaper reports in India said Tuesday. Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Ahmed said she talked to her husband by mobile...

DHAKA: Before Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury orchestrated Bangladesh's worst militant attack, he sought and won approval for it from Islamic State. A Canadian of Bangladeshi origin, he was told by his contact in the militant group, Abu Terek Mohammad Tajuddin...

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DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities on Tuesday threatened to bring murder charges against besieged opposition leader Khaleda Zia and arrested her deputy over accusations that they incited a nationwide wave of violence. A day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...