BD in International Media

Summary: International retailers are postponing business trips to Bangladesh or requesting armed escorts to accompany them on visits, factory owners and buying agents said, as the government works to contain the economic fallout from the recent killings of two foreign nationals claimed by Islamic State.

Summary: There is of course virtually no evidence to substantiate the claim that Bangladeshis are succumbing to the homicidal lure of ISIL. Although there are extremists in Bangladesh’s opposition, their ambitions have so far been limited to their own territory.

Summary: Bangladesh is setting up four technology parks to promote IT export and business process outsourcing (BPO) business and hopes to attract investment from the Middle East market.

Summary: Bangladesh is setting up four technology parks to promote IT export and business process outsourcing (BPO) business and hopes to attract investment from the Middle East market.

Summary: Bangladesh suffers a dysfunctional two-party system in which the two leaders, the “battling begums”, wage mutual vendettas at the country’s expense. For nearly a quarter-century they have rotated in office. The personal animus between the begums take the country to Brink.

Summary: At least seven people have been burned to death and 15 others injured, some seriously, in a petrol bomb attack on a bus in eastern Bangladesh.

Summary: Bangladesh Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Sunday began its 72-hour strike alongside its ongoing countrywide blockade forcing the government to reschedule Monday’s high-school exams to Friday, even as two persons died in fresh violence overnight pushing the death toll to 45.

Summary: Bangladesh Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Sunday began its 72-hour strike alongside its ongoing countrywide blockade forcing the government to reschedule Monday’s high-school exams to Friday, even as two persons died in fresh violence overnight pushing the death toll to 45.

Summary: Protests and shutdown observed continuously by opposition parties have continued to put Bangladesh into a political deadlock over the past weeks, with opposition demanding national elections to restore democracy.

Summary: The Bangladeshi authorities risk exacerbating an already violent situation by giving police carte blanche to use excessive force in response to a recent wave of horrific petrol bomb attacks amid ongoing violent political protests, Amnesty International said today.

Summary: The decision to hand a death sentence to the leader of Bangladesh's main religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has once again brought to the world's attention the country's controversial war crime trials after a year-long hiatus.

Summary: A second leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, Media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali has been sentenced to death by controversial court for war crimes committed during the 1971 war against Pakistan.

Summary: The head of Jamaat e Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been sentenced to death by a controversial court for war crimes committed during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971

Summary: Bangladesh was struggling to restore power hours after a transmission line bringing electricity from neighbouring India failed on Saturday, causing a nationwide blackout.

Summary: 01/11/14: A series of trials for war crimes still matter politically, but less than before

Summary: If violations of rights continue, Bangladesh could face pressure, including perhaps sanctions, from the international community. Prime Minister Hasina needs to restore autonomy to Bangladesh’s judiciary, stop persecuting human rights activists and work with the political opposition to find an acceptable transitional government ahead of next year’s election.

Summary: In young and developing democracies the imprisonment of dissenting voices is commonplace, but not unsurprising. Yet it is the incendiary act of executing high-level opposition leaders before an election which risks plunging Bangladesh into turmoil, Writes Lord Carlile of Berriew, CBE, FRSA, QC

Summary: Women and property rights

Summary: Adilur Rahman Khan of human rights organisation Odhikar held over alleged falsehood about violence by state security forces

Summary: The pendulum swings away from Sheikh Hasina and her government

Summary: On trip to Cairo, two senior lawmakers urge timetable for elections and ask Morsi's supporters to renounce violence

Summary: A London mother was hacked to death with machetes in front of her 12-year-old son in Bangladesh by jealous relatives, her family said today.

Summary: Bangladesh's most recent trial exemplifies the country's many problems.

Summary: The government of Bangladesh will issue identity cards for five lakh Rohingyas who are staying in Saudi Arabia without work permit, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said on Wednesday.