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Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain wins Venice award for 'The Difficult Bride'

Bangladesh, Sept. 12 -- Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain has won the Premio Bisato d'Oro, the Best Director award from the independent film critics' panel, at the 83rd Venice International Film ... Read More


Bangladesh reports 7 more deaths with measles symptoms

Bangladesh, Sept. 12 -- Bangladesh has recorded seven more deaths among people with measles symptoms in a 24-hour period. The Directorate General of Health Services said 39 people tested positive for... Read More


'Busy on phone': Chandpur doctor accused of negligence after patient's death

Bangladesh, Sept. 12 -- A woman has died at a government hospital in Chandpur amid allegations of medical negligence from her family over a doctor's alleged failure to attend to her as her condition w... Read More


Unidentified man's remains found in three sacks in Faridpur

Bangladesh, Sept. 12 -- Police have recovered the dismembered body of an unidentified man from three plastic sacks found beside a paddy field in Faridpur's Madhukhali Upazila. The sacks were discover... Read More


Man dies hit by train in Chattogram's Sholoshahar

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- A man has been killed while a child got injured after being hit by a train in Sholoshahar, Chattogram. Police said the incident occurred on Friday afternoon when the Parjatak ... Read More


Hasina's road to Dhaka strewn with doubts and danger

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- Will she or will she not? That seems to be the question in a lot of people's minds these days. Will Sheikh Hasina return in December, or will she not? For Awami League stalwar... Read More


Health minister warns hospitals against denying patients medical care

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain has warned that patients being denied treatment or forced to pay for tests outside public hospitals will not be tol... Read More


Myanmar's Mandalay airport shuts after drone attack

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- Flight operations at the international airport serving Myanmar's second-largest city have been shut down, according to a major domestic airline, following a drone attack on Thu... Read More


Locked cockpits, liquids and scanners: How flying changed after 9/11

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- Twenty-five years ago, walking through an airport could be a markedly different experience. Security was generally less intrusive. Friends and relatives could accompany passen... Read More


Chief whip accuses India of treating Bangladesh as 'a friend in name alone'

Bangladesh, Sept. 11 -- Parliament Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni has launched a scathing attack on India, accusing New Delhi of a stark "contradiction" between its words and actions in bilateral relatio... Read More