By Ruma Paul DHAKA, March 1 (Reuters) - A massive fire in Bangladesh that raged through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has…
PM Hasina's ruling party wins 223 out of 298 seats Fifth term overall for Hasina and Awami League Independent candidates bag 61 seats By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul DHAKA,…
Voting ends at 1000 GMT, results by early Monday PM Hasina's ruling party set for fourth straight term Main opposition BNP boycotting poll Turnout 27.5% an hour before polls close…
By Ruma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly DHAKA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Troops deployed across Bangladesh on Wednesday amid fears of violence ahead of a national election which the main opposition…
Dec 2 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck the Bangladesh region on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of…
A man stands next to Goddess Durga's picture at a makeshift pandal of the largest Durga Puja festival of the Bengali Hindu community in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 October, 2023. The…
By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh is grappling with a record deadly outbreak of dengue fever, with hospitals struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly…
By Ruma Paul DHAKA, May 14 (Reuters) - Storm surges whipped up by a powerful cyclone moving inland from the Bay of Bengal inundated the Myanmar port city of Sittwe…
Highest temperatures in over 50 years - power minister Overall power supply short of demand by 6.6% in last 7 days Average max weekly temperature 12.5% higher than last year…
Smoke rises as shop owners and other people look at the burned shops site a day after a fire broke out at the cloth market of Bangabazar Shopping Complex, in…
Firefighters hose a fire that after a road accident at Sibchar upazila in the Madaripur district in Bangladesh, 19 March 2023. At least 19 people died and many others were…
DHAKA/ASSAM, India (Reuters) -At least 25 people were killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh while millions were left marooned or homeless in low-lying northeastern parts hit…
DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India, June 18 (Reuters) - Monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in northeastern Bangladesh and India, stranding nearly 6 million people, authorities said on Saturday, warning the situation could worsen. The flooding…
DHAKA, June 5 (Reuters) - Firefighters were still working on Sunday to put out a massive blaze that killed at least 41 people at a container depot in southeast Bangladesh, the latest…
Firefighters and coast guards shift body bags of victims after a passenger ferry caught fire near the southern rural town of Jhalakathi, south of Dhaka in Bangladesh, 24 December 2021.…
At least 52 people were killed, 20 injured and many more feared trapped after a massive fire raged through a juice-making factory in Bangladesh, officials said on Friday, the latest…
At least seven people were killed and more than 50 people were injured in an explosion in the Bangladeshi capital late on Sunday, police said. The cause of the blast,…
At least 26 people died and several were missing after an overcrowded speedboat collided with a sand-laden bulk carrier and sank on Bangladesh's giant Padma River on Monday, police said.…
Local people take photos next to the carcass of a whale that washed up at Himchari beach in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Humayun Kabir, divisional forest officer (DFO) of Cox's Bazar…
A crane lifts the capsized ferry boat from the waters in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 05 April 2021. A ferry carrying around 50 passengers sank after an…
A court in Bangladesh sentenced to death five members of an Islamist militant group for killing a U.S. blogger critical of religious extremism six years ago. Avijit Roy, a U.S. citizen of…
BHASAN CHAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - As a Bangladeshi naval ship anchored off a remote Bay of Bengal island, some of the Rohingya Muslim refugees aboard clapped in anticipation of starting…
Bangladeshi Christians offer prayers on Christmas day at the St. Mary's Cathedral Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 December 2020. Christmas is celebrated in Bangladesh and across the world on 25…
A man sets up a nativity scene at the Holy Rosary Church popular know Japmal Queen Church ahead of the Christmas celebrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 24 December 2020. Christmas is…
An underground gas pipeline near a mosque exploded during evening prayers outside the capital of Bangladesh, leaving at least 11 Muslim worshipers dead and dozens injured with critical burns, officials…
August 25 marked the third anniversary of attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents that triggered military retaliation and led to the exodus from Buddhist-majority Myanmar over following days and weeks of…
A woman reacts during the rescue operation in the aftermath of a boat capsizing in the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 29 June 2020. According to local media reports and…
A powerful cyclone that tore through India's eastern state of West Bengal this week has caused a damage of 1 trillion rupees ($13 billion) to infrastructure and crops, state officials…
A powerful cyclone pounded eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and destroying thousands of homes, officials said, leaving authorities struggling to mount relief efforts amid…
Heavy rains and winds have been reported in eastern India and Bangladesh, with a super cyclone expected to make landfall in hours. Amphan is one of the biggest storms in…
India began evacuating thousands of villagers and halted port operations ahead of a cyclone expected to hit its east coast this week, piling pressure on emergency services grappling with the…
Muslim devotees leave on an overcrowded train after attending the Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims in the world, in Tongi, about 30 kilometres north of Dhaka, Bangladesh,…
Seven Islamists have been sentenced to death for a 2016 attack on a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed. The attack on the…
A Bangladesh court has sentenced 16 people to death for the murder of a student set on fire after accusing her teacher of sexual harassment. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, died…
A Bangladeshi artist gives the final touches to an idol of the Goddess Durga ahead of the largest Durga Puja festival of the Bengali Hindus community in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The…
Unusually heavy monsoon rains have inundated shelters in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh creating “havoc”, the World Food Programme (WFP) said, as it launched its biggest emergency response of the…
Former Bangladeshi military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad died on Sunday at the age of 90, local media reported. Ershad was suffering from kidney and liver complications and was admitted…