Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:46:48 +0000
Last Sunday, when Shahjadi Akter’s five-year-old daughter began running a fever, she rushed the child to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from her Hosni Dalan house. Doctors there diagnosed her with dengue, but could not admit her due to a lack of beds.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:25:30 +0000
Bangladesh’s high court has granted the country’s rivers the rights and status of “living entities” in a bid to save them from encroachment, a lawyer said Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 12:45:30 +0000
Indian and Bangladeshi officials and security experts largely dismissed a fresh threat of violence from an Islamic State-aligned media group.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:49:48 +0000
Dozens of protesters took to the streets in Bangladesh’s capital to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her Islamic school’s principal.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:43:13 +0000
Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:04:14 +0000
Bangladesh fire officials say a fire in a high-rise office building in the capital has been brought under full control with the death toll
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 11:19:47 +0000
A fire broke out Thursday in a high-rise office building in Bangladesh’s capital and many people were feared trapped inside.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:48:35 +0000
Bangladesh’s foreign secretary on Thursday said his country will need to stop accepting more refugees from Myanmar.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:15:30 +0000
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who had been previously arrested in a kidnapping case, officials said Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:23:48 +0000
A flight bound for Dubai from Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, made an emergency landing Sunday in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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