Bangladesh

Dhaka -- Biman Bangladesh Airlines said a flight from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to London was delayed for 10 hours due to clogged toilets.

Dhaka, Bangladesh July 18: Rivers near Dhaka, Bangladesh, are biologically dead and especially toxic during dry seasons, a water resource expert said Saturday.

Dhaka, June 23: Bangladesh's main opposition leader Khaleda Zia has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India should stop building the Tipaimukh dam in its north-eastern region.

Dhaka, June 20: Bangladesh has expressed confidence that India would do "nothing harmful" on a proposed river dam in Manipur state in north-eastern India, a minister has said.

Dhaka, June 19: Bangladesh opposition leader and two-time prime minister Khaleda Zia may get her politician son Tarique Rahman to return from Britain to rejuvenate the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a media report here said Friday.

Dhaka, June 10: The European Union (EU) has urged Bangladesh to remove temporary military bases and help re-settle the original Buddhist tribal residents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, media reports here said Wednesday.

Dhaka, April 20 -- Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave late Monday for Saudi Arabia on her first foreign visit since she took office in January.

Dhaka, Bangladesh April 20 -- India should stop springing "diplomatic surprises" on Bangladesh, a Dhaka newspaper said Monday and added that New Delhi's "aggressive style" since the Awami League government had come to power showed its "assertion of dominance over a neighbouring country".

Dhaka, April 19 -- Security for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been stepped up following a warning by India that there could be an attempt to kill her.

Dhaka, Bangladesh pril 17 -- A Bangladesh court has indicted Mufti Abdul Hannan, leader of the banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad Islami (Huji), and 13 others for causing the 2001 blast at a city rally that killed 10 and injured scores of people.