NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Deadly protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country born out of a war between India ...

The last significant earthquake of the twentieth century in Bangladesh occurred in Moheshkhali upazila in July 1999. Its epicentre was on the island, and the 5.2 magnitude tremor damaged many houses.

In his eight years at the helm of US foreign policy, Henry Kissinger’s unique brand of realpolitik diplomacy was blamed for genocides, massacres, rape and torture on an industrial scale. The architect ...

She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation after weeks of violent protests, announced on Monday in a televised address by the army chief, has brought focus once more ...

Bangladesh, a South Asian country with a population of over 160 million, boasts a rich and diverse sporting history. From the British colonial era to the present day, sports have played a significant ...

The Bangladeshi military announced Jan. 19 it had foiled a coup plot to unseat the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sheik Hasina. An army spokesman pinned the “heinous conspiracy” ...

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the once-booming economy of Bangladesh is now "in freefall" due ...

Of all the back-of-the-beyond places I’ve visited on the Subcontinent, the most unusual are the so-called “enclaves” along the India-Bangladesh border. They are little parcels of Indian or Bangladeshi ...

A Bangladeshi priest has authored a book that documents the history of Christianity in the country spanning more than five centuries. Father Dilip Stephen Costa’s Bengali-language book Bangladeshey ...