Dhaka - Two workers were killed and two other injured in a gas explosion on a ship-breaking yard near the port city of Chittagong in south-eastern Bangladesh, officials said Tuesday.

Dhaka  - A crowded bus went out of control and veered off a highw

Dhaka 

Dhaka  - At least 17 people were killed and 30 other injured Wednesday as a speeding t

Dhaka  - At least 1,000 Islamic activists joined a rally outside the national Baitul Mukarram mosque in central Dhaka Tuesday calling for the scrapping of proposed policy to improve the rights of women in Bangladesh, witnesses said.

The rally was organized by a militant Islamic group called the Islamic United Alliance which has accused the army-backed interim government for violating the injunctions of the Koran, Islam's holiest book.