Gusts reaching 90 kilometers per hour uproot trees, destroy houses, disrupt electricity and communications
Attacks over past two years have targeted secular and progressive bloggers, writers, activists and intellectuals; officials blame local militants, political foes
Shuddhashar Publishing House this week received the 2016 Jeri Laber International Freedom to Publish Award for putting out work despite threats and with little support from Bangladesh government
Heat wave followed by thunderstorms lead to 56 people being struck, killed by lightning strikes over past two days; disaster management official says country considers lightning deaths a natural disaster
Motiur Nizami was sentenced to death in 2014 for his role in killings, rapes and organizing the massacre of some intellectuals during the war
Islamic State group claims responsibility for attack Saturday in which Hindu tailor was hacked to death in central Bangladesh
USAID official Xulhaz Mannan, who also worked as a protocol officer in the US embassy in Dhaka, was at his home with his friend, Tanay Mojumdar, when five attackers arrived, disguised as couriers and pounced on them with machetes
Chairperson of BNP says that with arrest of Shafik Rehman, government has shown its autocratic face; press, rights groups express alarm, too
More than 90 percent of Bangladesh's 160 million people are Muslim; Islamists have long agitated on issues which they say threaten Islam
European Union urges Bangladesh to arrange for repatriation of thousands of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants living in EU member countries
Before Tanvir Hassan Zoha was abducted by unidentified men in Dhaka last month he had expressed fears he could be arrested for his comments to media about $81 million cyber heist
Top court rejects 28-year-old petition to remove Islam as country’s state religion; non-Muslim activists say decision marks ‘sad day’ for minorities
Arsenic-rich groundwater has maimed and killed people since the 1970s
