Cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' claims 12 lives in B'desh

At least 12 people were killed on Thursday as cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' battered Bangladesh's southwestern coastlines, forcing authorities to evacuate over one million people from low-lying......

B'desh court bars publication of novel on 1975 coup

Bangladesh's high court on Tuesday banned the publication of a political novel by popular writer Humayun Ahmed for "distortion of historical facts" about the assassination of the country's founder......

Bangladesh is secular again: HC

Ruling that Bangladesh is now a secular state, the country's high court has said that the constitution of 1972 has automatically been restored by a landmark judgment of the apex court that......

9 acquitted in Hyderabad blast cases

A Hyderabad court on Friday acquitted nine accused in connection with the low-intensity bomb blasts that rocked the city in 1993. Three persons were killed and several others were injured in these......