Demonstrators and police clash in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka after 33 senior opposition figures are arrested in connection with anti-government protests last month.

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Bangladeshi arrests spark anger

Bangladeshi Islamist leader Ghulam Azam is charged by a special tribunal with alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan.

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Bangladesh indicts Islamist chief

Campaigners in Bangladesh are stepping up their efforts to put a stop to child marriages.

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VIDEO: Activists target child marriages

Seeking to show how vulnerable an ostensibly up-and-coming modern metropolis is, Abir Abdullah has been chasing the fires that plague Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Lens Blog: Abir Abdullah’s Photographs of Fires in Bangladesh

Editor’s note: The Immigrant’s Table is a new monthly column in which we explore the international cuisines (and the people behind them) found in the strip malls and suburban sprawls far from the expense-account dining rooms of downtown Washington . If I were to reduce the cuisine of Bangladesh to a single word — and isn’t a bottom-line reduction what you’re after when discussing the tangled colonial and cross-cultural influences of another nation’s cooking? — it would have to be “rivers.” Read full article > >

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The Immigrant’s Table: The river culture of Bangladesh

Bangladesh unveils a domestically made laptop, the Doel, which officials claim is one of the cheapest in the world.

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Bangladesh unveils $130 laptops

Indian PM Manmohan Singh concludes a historic visit to Bangladesh with a series of protocols but no agreement on water sharing or transit rights.

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Key deals elude leaders in Dhaka

Rights group Amnesty International accuses the Bangladeshi government of unlawful killings by its special police force, the Rapid Action Battalion.

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Bangladesh urged to end killings

A 43-year-old Bangladeshi man is remanded in custody charged with the attempted abduction of a child in east Belfast.

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Man faces child abduction charge

Muhammad Yunus, founder of pioneering Bangladeshi microcredit Grameen Bank, resigns after a long-running row with the government.

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Grameen Bank founder stands down

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s highest court on Thursday upheld the government’s decision to remove Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from his pioneering microfinance agency Grameen Bank. The ruling ends his decades of leadership at the bank he set up to lend money to the poor. A seven-member Supreme Court panel led by the chief justice announced it had dismissed Yunus’ appeal to remain the bank’s managing director. The panel did not give any detailed explanation of its ruling — a process Yunus’ counsel Kamal Hossain strongly criticized, terming it “unprecedented.” Read full article > >

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Bangladesh court dismisses Nobel laureate Yunus’ last appeal to stay at bank he founded

A court in Bangladesh sentences 11 people to life imprisonment for gang raping a female school student during post-election violence in 2001.

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Bangladesh gang rape convictions

Shane Watson smashes a world-record 15 sixes on his way to recording the highest individual one-day innings by an Australian as Bangladesh are crushed by nine wickets.

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Aussie Watson hits record sixes

Despite her mother proclaiming her innocence, Bangladeshi 14-year-old Hena Akhter was convicted of adultery, and, according to Sharia Law, sentenced to 101 lashes. She dropped after 70, and was taken to a hospital, where she died one week later….

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Muslim Girl, 14, Lashed to Death for Adultery

Despite her mother proclaiming her innocence, Bangladeshi 14-year-old Hena Akhter was convicted of adultery, and, according to Sharia Law, sentenced to 101 lashes. She dropped after 70, and was taken to a hospital, where she died one week later….

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Muslim Girl, 14, Lashed to Death for Adultery