Reshma told reporters that she survived on filthy water and a few biscuits as everyone around her died. ...
11:34 PM, May 15, 2013
Hundreds of onlookers burst into cheers as army engineers pulled out a woman from the basement of the building after 17 days. ...
10:20 AM, May 11, 2013
Five hundred fifty people lost their lives in a building collapse in Bangladesh but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is defending her government saying there was nothing that could have been done to prevent the tragedy. ...
12:28 PM, May 03, 2013
Search operation is still on for hundreds of people after a buidling collapse in Dhaka killed more than 250 people. More than 40 people have been rescued since Thursday from the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, which housed clothes factories. The collapse has sparked angry protests against poor building safety standards. Some 2,000 people were in the Rana Plaza building in Savar when it collapsed suddenly on Wednesday morning. ...
03:57 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Dhaka: Hundreds of people are still missing after Wednesday's collapse of a building in Dhaka which killed nearly 300 people. Rescue operators are working non-stop for over 48 hours looking for survivors as a factory building collapsed in Dhaka on Wednesday. Ria Begum was amongst the lucky ones who were saved but she makes a strong note against her company's management. She says, "We did not want to go up ...
01:01 PM, Apr 26, 2013
42 years after Bangladesh was liberated, it is resonating with nationalist chants that are demanding hanging of war criminals and are looking for closure to the country's darkest chapter. ...
04:42 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Protests in Dhaka pressing for a ban on the Jamaat-e-Islaami continued after its vice president was sentenced to death for 1971 war crimes by a tribunal. The JI has scaled up its agitation and a policeman was killed in clashes with its activists on Sunday. ...
10:00 PM, Mar 10, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday night sent a strong message to Bangladesh, rocked by violence, counselling that political differences be resolved through dialogue and communal peace and harmony maintained. ...
10:31 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Bangladesh's key Opposition leader Khaleda Zia cancelled a plan meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday even as fresh violence marred his first foreign trip since taking over presidency. "We had fixed a time for Khaleda Zia to call on the President. The President was in fact looking forward to this meeting. An experience shows that during such hartals, the meeting with the President will not be suitable," said Indian ...
10:09 AM, Mar 04, 2013
The Jamaat activists have been demanding punishment for bloggers who they accuse of maligning Islam. ...
08:32 AM, Feb 25, 2013
This week on World View: Protests in Bangladesh over war crimes tribunal, a special report from Dhaka and the documentary No Fire Zone has set off a new round of protests over alleged human rights violation by Sri Lanka forces during 2009. Is it propaganda or proof of brutality: Should India act on Sri Lanka photos? ...
03:22 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Over one lakh protesters took to the streets in Dhaka after the murder of a blogger, demanding death penalty for those found guilty of war crimes in 1971. "They have no right to do politics in our country because they are using religion in our political scenario which is total hypocrisy. The big message is we want social, economical and cultural freedom," said one protester. ...
11:36 AM, Feb 17, 2013
More than a 120 people are dead in a major fire at a cloth factory near Dhaka in Bangladesh. ...
02:11 PM, Nov 25, 2012
A new channel carried out a sting operation exposing umpires agreeing to fix Twenty20 matches in return for financial benefits. ...
11:19 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Bangladesh gave Pakistan a run for their money in their second group match but eventually lost the match thanks to some poor bowling. ...
09:26 AM, Sep 26, 2012
The move comes three days after a mob burnt down a bus at Norsinghdi in Dhaka after a clash between two factions of the Awami League. ...
10:32 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Senior BJP leader LK Advani blamed the UPA government for not being able to check illegal immigration. ...
01:58 PM, Aug 08, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be meeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. ...
09:01 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Bangladesh High Commissioner Tareq Karim accused the Bangaldesh Opposition of being involved in the coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Karim also said that the attempt to remove the government was linked to the 1971 war crimes trial. He further praised the army for foiling the coup attempt saying, "Bangladesh army is turning professional. The entrenched political elements are being thrown out." "We ...
04:52 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: India will finalise the Teesta River water sharing agreement with Bangladesh only after consulting governments of the states which are going to be affected by the deal, said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday. So the Teesta River water sharing agreement between the two countries is unlikely to be signed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's two-day trip on September 6-7 to Dhaka. The clarification by the ...
04:06 PM, Sep 05, 2011
