No rape cases post 72 hrs, says Bangladesh woman judge; relieved of duties

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has relieved a woman judge of court duties after she made a controversial observation in her judgment that the police should not register a rape case 72 hours after......

Bangladesh hangs ex-Army officer for Sheikh Mujib's assassination

Bangladesh on Sunday executed a former military captain for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, nearly......

Bangladesh Jamaat chief gets death sentence for war crimes

Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a special tribunal for his role in the killing of thousands of people during the......

Bangladesh sends 152 soldiers to gallows for 2009 mutiny

A total of 152 Bangladeshi soldiers were sentenced to death by a special court in Dhaka on Tuesday in one of the world's biggest ever mass criminal trials for their role in a 2009 mutiny and......