DHAKA: Five people were killed and three others severely injured on Wednesday when a speedy passenger bus collided head on with a microbus in Muksudpur upazila in Bangladesh's Gopalganj district.

AGARTALA: A Bangladeshi smuggler was killed and another injured as BSF troopers opened fire, after being surrounded by the gang, along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura's Unakoti district on Sunday, officials said.

DHAKA: Bangladesh will host Zimbabwe for a five-match T20I series against Zimbabwe slated for May ahead of the T20 World Cup co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies from June 1

CHATTOGRAM: Bangladesh have dropped Litton Das ahead of the crucial third ODI against Sri Lanka, from the squad bringing in the promising wicketkeeper-batter Jaker Ali.

MELBOURNE: Australia women all-rounder Grace Harris has been called up to the ODI squad as a replacement for the injured Darcie Brown ahead of Australia's tour of Bangladesh scheduled to commence on March 21.

MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday said it approved a loan of 71 million US dollars to improve flood control, irrigation, and water resources management in Bangladesh.

KOLKATA: In what is being considered a major success by investigating agencies, the Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended a Bangladeshi human organ trafficker while he was attempting to cross over to India in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.

DHAKA: Curbing trans-border crimes, human trafficking, and enhanced joint-patrolling were some of the issues discussed at the 54th India-Bangladesh Director General-level border coordination conference from March 5-9 in Dhaka.

DHAKA: Three people have been arrested in connection with the Bangladesh building fire which claimed 46 lives.

DHAKA: The death toll in the fire at a multi-storey building in Bangladesh has risen to 45, Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen said on Friday.

PUNE: Thousands of people and medicos in Bangladesh last week pledged to join a unique 12-year-old 'Save Girl Child' initiative by Pune's famed gynaecologist Dr. Ganesh Rakh.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdur Rahman has said the government has a plan to produce foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccine for livestock locally as the current local vaccine market for FMD is growing rapidly.

DHAKA: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma said New Delhi was today Dhaka's largest export destination in Asia, and hoped that better connectivity links and new measures like trade in Indian Rupee will further enhance exports to India.

Christchurch: After making a mid-way comeback into India's playing eleven in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, opener Shafali Verma on Saturday stated that her knock of 42 against Bangladesh at Hamilton gave her the much-needed confidence.

HAMILTON: Yastika Bhatia scored a half-century, while Sneh Rana came up with all-round heroics (27 and 4/30) in a must-win situation as India secure a convincing 110-run victory over Bangladesh in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup league match at Seddon Park here on Tuesday.

HAMILTON: Debutants Bangladesh eked out a nine-run victory against favourites Pakistan to make history at the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, with Fargana Hoque and Fahima Khatun playing crucial roles to negate a fine century from top-order batter Sidra Ameen at the Seddon Park here on Monday.

DUNEDIN: A fine half-century from Fargana Hoque (52 off 63 balls) helped Bangladesh post a competitive score in their rain-affected second match of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup against New Zealand at the University Oval here on Monday.

The absence of adequate infrastructure is to blame for South Asia's appalling level of regional integration, which stands at just 5% according to the World Bank. As a result, logistics costs have risen, raising the overall cost of trading in the region. Different types of border management infrastructure, such as Land Customs Stations (LCSs), Immigration Check Posts (ImCPs), and consolidated facilities like Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) and other border-trade centers, help India’s land border trade with Bangladesh.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: The group stages of the ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup 2022 came to an end with qualification shootouts, superb centuries and a five-wicket haul.

BASSETERRE: Defending champions Bangladesh bounced back from the loss to England in their Under-19 ICC Cricket World Cup opener with a dominant eight-wicket win over Canada in a Group A match at the Conaree Sports Club here on Friday (IST).

KUALA LUMPUR: Sri Lanka thrashed Scotland by 109 runs and Bangladesh registered an eight-wicket win over Malaysia to kickstart the 2022 Women's T20 Commonwealth Games Qualifiers, here on Tuesday.

BASSETERRE (ST KITTS AND NEVIS): England Under-19s team displayed their authority over holders Bangladesh with an effortless seven-win with 24.5 overs to spare in a low-scoring match in Group A opener in the ICC Under 19s Men's World Cup here today.

GUYANA: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan all recorded impressive victories as the warm-up matches for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup continued on Tuesday with the tournament just around the corner.

DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to observe the Martyred Intellectuals' Day on Tuesday in a befitting manner.Bangladesh Prime Minister (PM), Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that the anti-liberation forces started the politics of killing, coup and conspiracy in the country.

NEW DELHI:The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Bangladeshs elite paramilitary unit, after widespread allegations of serious human rights abuse.

DHAKA: Two members of the Bangladesh women's cricket team tested positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 after returning home from Zimbabwe, the country's health and family welfare minister Zahid Maleque said on Saturday.

NEW DELHI:President Ram Nath Kovind will be on a two day state visit to Bangladesh from December 15 to December 17 to attend the country's 50th Victory Day celebrations.

DHAKA: A two-day international investment summit has started in the Bangladesh capital to help the country woo more foreign investors.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the summit at a city hotel in Dhaka on Sunday joining virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.

NEW DELHI:Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday described the Bangladesh War of Liberation as an 'unprecedented event' in the 20th century history.

TRIPOLI: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that it has deported 140 illegal Bangladeshi migrants to their country of origin.

SHARJAH:  Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah won the toss and elected to bowl first against West Indies in a must-win Group 1 match of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here on Friday.

AL AMERAT:  Having lost to Scotland in their opening match, Bangladesh's hopes of making it to the Super 12 round depend on putting together a comprehensive show against Papua New Guinea (PNG) at the Oman Cricket Academy Ground on Thursday.

AL AMERAT: Shakib Al Hasan's all-round performance, Mohammad Naim's fighting fifty, and Mustafizur Rahman's superb bowling effort led Bangladesh to a comprehensive 26-run victory over Oman in the 6th match of ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021 at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground, here on Tuesday.

DHAKA: A three-member probe body has been formed after two more persons were killed in a fresh attack in Bangladesh. The attackers vandalised puja mandaps and carried out attacks on temples in Noakhali's Begumganj upazila during the celebrations of Durga Puja.

MUSCAT: Bangladesh will be high on confidence when they take on Scotland in a First Round, Group B match at the Al Amerat Cricket Stadium here on Sunday (October 17), having hit top-gear with victories against the two best sides in the world -- New Zealand and Australia -- at home in August-September this year.

DHAKA:  Bangladesh Cricketer Mosharraf Hossain Rubel is battling for his life on Thursday in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital here after his condition deteriorated on Wednesday. Rubel, who played five ODIs for Bangladesh between 2008 and 2016, has been battling with a brain tumor for a long time.

DHAKA: New Zealand will be prepared for a Bangladesh resistance in the fourth T20I to restore parity in the series and make it 2-2 to force a decider, when the teams meet at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur later on Wednesday.

HYDERABAD: Telangana Finance Minister T. Harish Rao on Monday slammed the BJP, saying during its rule, India's economic growth has slumped to lower than Bangladesh.

DHAKA: Amid an ongoing strict lockdown in Bangladesh, the country's overall coronavirus infection tally has surpassed the 1.1 million mark, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

MUMBAI: Essar Shipping Ltd, part of Essar Global Fund Ltd's services and technology portfolio, has said two of its handysize vessels 'Tvisha' and 'Tuhina' weighing 13,000 DWT, have been engaged in exports of rice from India to Bangladesh as per the recent bilateral trade agreement signed between the two neighbouring countries.

DHAKA: A massive blaze tore through a food processing factory in an industrial town near Dhaka, killing at least 52 as workers trapped by flames in the multi-storey building were forced to leap for their lives from the fourth floor.

KOLKATA:Major General Mohammed Saiful Alam, the chief of Bangladesh's Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), has been promoted as Lieutenant General and asked to take charge as Quarter-Master General (QMG) of the countrys army.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said Bangladesh considers China as a trusted partner for its socio-economic development.
In a felicitation message on the 100th year of Communist Party of China's establishment, she said that Bangladesh acknowledges with due appreciation the cooperation and assistance by China during the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccines and CPC's gifts of medical equipment to the ruling Awami League.

DHAKA:At least seven people were killed and dozens of others injured in the collapse of a commercial building after a massive explosion in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka on Sunday.

DHAKA:Bangladesh has signed a pact with China to buy the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, said Health Minister Zahid Maleque.The Health Minister said this during a programme at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases here.

Punjab News Express
CHANDIGARH: A delegation comprising eight members from Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh visited Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) under the leadership of Mr. Kazi Wasiuddin, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Govt. of Bangladesh. The visit was focused to study farm success achieved through private and public sector support.

DHAKA: At least 26 police personnel have been injured in Bangladesh during an attack carried out by the radical Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam's activists.

DHAKA: A fierce social media 'war' has erupted between pro-Liberation Bangladeshis and the Pakistanis resenting Bangladesh's much vaunted progress and growing relations with India ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the country.

AGARTALA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the eastern and northeastern regions of India, along with Bangladesh, are being developed as a trade corridor.

MUMBAI: Reliance Power Limited ("Reliance Power") and JERA Co. Inc. ("JERA"), through their joint venture project company, are developing a new gas-fired power generation project in Bangladesh. The project company has achieved financial closure for the project with a group of lenders that includes Japan Bank for International Cooperation ("JBIC") & Asian Development Bank ("ADB") and all requisite conditions for availing drawdown under the loan agreements have been satisfied.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said teachers and officials of educational institutions in the country should be vaccinated against the Covid-19 by March 30.

AUCKLAND: Bangladesh's limited-overs tour of New Zealand, beginning with three ODIs, will now begin on March 20 instead of March 13, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) confirmed on Thursday.

JALANDHAR: The United Nations (UN) has decorated BTech Mechanical Engineering international student of LPU, Sm Sammam Sakti Ibn Sahadat, with the coveted title of “The Most Aspiring Youth Activist & Global Youth Leader”. Occasion is an on-going global campaign-“UNITE 2030: Youth Action for Better World” by the United Nations (UN).

DHAKA:Bangladesh will get the Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Serum Institute as soon as India gets it, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen confirmed on Monday night.

CHANDIGARH: Year-long celebrations to commemorate the 50th anniversary of India's victory over Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh will be observed as 'Swarnim Vijay Varsh' by the Government of India. These celebrations have been inaugurated by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in New Delhi by lighting the 'Swarnim Vijay Mashal'.

DHAKA:The Bangladesh Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday approved a legal amendment to elevate the maximum punishment in rape cases to death from life imprisonment.

DHAKA:The Bangladesh government has planned to introduce capital punishment in rape cases as protests have erupted across the country over the recent incidents of sexual violence against women.

DHAKA: Vikram Doraiswami, the new Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, has said that the partnership between the two neighbouring countries was based on respect, adding that India deeply admires and respects the spirit of the Bangladeshi people, who fashioned a nation based on their own unique identity through a historic struggle.

KOLKATA: Four Bangladeshi mercenaries were arrested from Santiniketan in Birbhum district of West Bengal, police said on Monday. The police also seized some country-made firearms and explosives from the group of six.

DHAKA:Bangladesh has registered 37 new deaths due to COVID-19, raising the body count to 1,582, health officials said on Wednesday.
The case load surged to 122,660 after 3,462 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, till Wednesday morning.
Another 2,031 patients have recovered from COVID-19 at home and in hospital in the same period, bringing the total to 49,666, DGHS Additional Director General Nasima Sultana said in a media briefing.

DHAKA:Bangladesh recorded over 3,500 more COVID-19 cases, bringing the total in the country to 112,306.

DHAKA: At least four labourers were dead and 15 remained missing after a boat capsized in the river of Jamuna in Bangladesh's Sirajganj district, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
The district's police chief Hasibul Alam told Xinhua over phone that the boat carrying some 70 people, mostly day labourers, sank at about 11:30 a.m. (local time) on Tuesday amid inclement weather.

JHANSI:Seven Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested here for not having any valid documents, police said on Sunday.
Jhansi's Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) D. Pradeep said: "As many as seven Bangladeshi nationals were arrested during routine checking near the bus stand in Babina on Friday."

NEW DELHI:A statement made by Bhartiya Janata Party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya garnered hilarious trolls and reaction by the tweeple around the country.

AGARTALA:A huge haul of Yaba drugs worth Rs 8.53 crore destined for Bangladesh via Tripura has been seized on Friday from a hideout along the India-Bangladesh border, BSF official said.

Punjab News Express
CHANDIGARH: A delegation comprising eight members from Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh visited Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) under the leadership of Mr. Kazi Wasiuddin, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Govt. of Bangladesh. The visit was focused to study farm success achieved through private and public sector support.