Dhaka/New Delhi, Nov 19 : The official death toll in Thursday night's cyclonic storm in Bangladesh has crossed over 3, 000, as aid and relief workers continue to help thousands of families displace

Dhaka, Nov 18 : The death toll in cyclone-hit Bangladesh is likely to cross 1,800, even as thousands of survivors were still waiting for relief aid today.

Dhaka, Nov 16 : Over 425 people were feared dead and thousands others injured in Bangladesh, as the powerful cyclone Sidr lashed the country's south and south-western regions of the country last ni

Dhaka, Oct 26 : In the largest ever Yaba haul in Bangladesh, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday recovered 130,000 contraband nerve stimulant tablets, and arrested two in this connection.

Yaba, the Thai word for "crazy medicine," is a tablet form of methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant.

Amin Huda and his close aide Ahsanul Haque Hasan were arrested at Huda’s Gulshan office with 130,000 Yaba tablets.

The elite force also suspects that Huda is one of the top barons of the drug business in Bangladesh.

The Rab also seized over 5,000 Yaba's alternative drugs ice pills, ice pill preparing chemical, foreign liquor, phensidyle, over Tk 46 lakh and currencies of six other countries.

Dhaka, Oct 26 : Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided not to take into cognisance the corruption allegations against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, saying they “lack merit”.

The cases against Zia pertain to the compensation for Magurchhara gas field blow-out and leasing out Phulbari coal zone to Asia Energy.

As per the findings of the preliminary enquiry about allegations against Khaleda, the anti-graft body has taken the decision that the allegations have no merit.