All stories by Anisur Rahman
Foreign secy visit Bangladesh, meets PM Sheikh Hasina
Rediff.com18 Aug 2020Shringla visited Dhaka in March last after assuming office of the Indian Foreign Secretary in January this year.
B'desh court indicts country's 1st Hindu Chief Justice in graft case
Rediff.com13 Aug 2020The indictment comes seven months after another Dhaka court issued an arrest warrant against the 69-year-old ex-chief justice who lives in the United States
Bangladesh hangs ex-Army officer for Sheikh Mujib's assassination
Rediff.com12 Apr 2020Former captain Abdul Majed was hanged for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which the country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, nearly four-and-a-half decades after the high profile massacre.
CAB may weaken India's secular character: Bangladesh
Rediff.com12 Dec 2019B'desh minister termed as "untrue" the allegations of minority repression in the country.
Plane hijack bid foiled in Bangladesh, passengers safe
Rediff.com24 Feb 2019The lone suspect has been detained and is being interrogated.
70 killed as massive blaze rips through chemical warehouses in Dhaka
Rediff.com21 Feb 2019Bangladesh's fire service chief Ali Ahmed said the accident may have started with a gas cylinder.
Sheikh Hasina takes oath as Bangladesh PM for 3rd straight term
Rediff.com7 Jan 2019Hasina, the president of the Awami League, won the 11th parliamentary elections with a landslide victory even as the Opposition rejected the "farcical" polls marred by violence that claimed 17 lives, making it one of the deadliest polls in the country's history.
Landslide win for Hasina in Bangladesh polls; Opposition rejects results
Rediff.com31 Dec 2018The ruling Awami League-led grand alliance has won 288 seats in the 300-member Parliament, Election Commission secretary Helaluddin Ahmed said.
Voting ends in Bangladesh, 17 killed in poll-related violence
Rediff.com30 Dec 2018The unofficial results were expected by Monday morning which would be announced by the commission headquarters in the capital.
Ex-Bangla PM Khaleda Zia sentenced to 5 years in graft case
Rediff.com8 Feb 2018In the same case, her son Tarique Rahman and four others have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
In Dhaka, Pope apologises for indifference towards Rohingyas
Rediff.com1 Dec 2017In a moving encounter, Francis blessed them, held their hands and intently listened to their heart-rending tales of escape from the Buddhist-majority nation, in an apparent show of public solidarity towards Asia's worst refugee crisis in decades.
Myanmar signs deal with B'desh, to take back Rohingya refugees in 2 months
Rediff.com23 Nov 2017Over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's violence hit Rakhine state to neighbouring Bangladesh since August when the military intensified crackdown against alleged militant outfits of Rohingya Muslims.
Return of 'displaced persons' can restore normalcy: Swaraj on Rohingya crisis
Rediff.com22 Oct 2017She, however, preferred not to use the word 'Rohingya' and said 'we have urged that the situation be handled with restraint, keeping in mind the welfare of the population'.
Myanmar proposes to take back Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh
Rediff.com2 Oct 2017The two sides agreed on forming a joint working group to oversee the repatriation process but its composition would be decided later by both the countries.
'India pushing Myanmar to take back Rohingya refugees'
Rediff.com15 Sep 2017More than 3,00,000 Rohingya have poured into Bangladesh since the latest flare-up in violence on August 25.
India sends relief materials for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
Rediff.com14 Sep 2017The relief material consists of items required urgently by the affected people, namely rice, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil, tea, ready to eat noodles, biscuits, mosquito nets etc, it said.
144 dead in B'desh landslides, fresh rescue campaign launched
Rediff.com14 Jun 2017Officials feared that the death toll could rise as rescuers find it difficult to reach remote areas.
Indian Navy saves 33 as Cyclone Mora kills 9 in Bangladesh
Rediff.com31 May 2017Despite low casualty figure, the storm left behind a trail of destruction as thousands of people lost their houses.
3 more militants killed in Bangladesh anti-terror raid
Rediff.com1 Apr 2017Security forces in the past 10 days have witnessed four major anti-militancy assaults against Islamic-State inclined Neo-Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh in which seven people including an army lieutenant colonel and two police inspectors lost their lives while the assaults killed 15 militants and their children.
Operation Twilight: Chief of neo-JMB killed in Sylhet, claims police
Rediff.com28 Mar 2017The chief of the terror group blamed for Bangladesh's worst terror attack at a Dhaka cafe was among the four Islamist militants killed in one of the country's longest anti-terror operations in Sylhet, police said on Tuesday.