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Chopper crash in Bangladesh's Cox Bazar kills one
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 16 (ANI): At least one person was killed and four others injured after a chopper of Meghna Aviation Limited crashed in Ukhia upazila of Bangladesh Cox's Bazar today.
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Shakib Al Hasan narrowly escapes helicopter crash
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept.16 (ANI): Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan and his wife Umme Ahmed Shishir on Friday narrowly escaped an accident after the helicopter that was carrying the two crashed immediately after dropping them in Cox's Bazar.
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Killed Azimpur militant identified as Shamsed Hossain
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 11 (ANI): The Bangladesh Police have identified the militant who killed himself during a police raid yesterday evening in Dhaka's Azimpur area as Shamsed Hossain alias Abdul Karim hailing from Boalia of Rajshahi.
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Battle to douse Gazipur factory fire underway
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 11 (ANI): Firefighters continue to completely douse the fire triggered by explosions at a packaging factory in Tongi of Bangladesh's Gazipur district yesterday.
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Death toll rises to 23 in B'desh garment factory fire (UPDATE)
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 10 (ANI): At least 23 workers were killed and 74 others injured in a boiler explosion at a garment packaging factory in Tongi BSCIC industrial area of Bangladesh's Gazipur district today.
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12 killed after Bangladesh garment factory catches fire
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept.10 (ANI): A fire broke out in a garment packaging factory just outside Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday, killing at least 12 people, Police and witnesses said that dozens more have been admitted to a hospital with injuries, even as firemen are struggling to cont
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Dhaka fumes as Pak assembly passes resolution
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka (Bangladesh), Sept. 7 (ANI): Despite Dhaka's strong protest for repeated interference in the country's internal affairs, the National Assembly of Pakistan on Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution strongly condemning the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali in
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Journalist released after imprisoned for trying to kill B'desh PM
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 6 (ANI): Journalist Shafik Rehman walked out of Kashimpur jail in Gazipur, after five months into arrest in a case for his alleged attempts to abduct and murder Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.
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Four suspected female militants of JMB held with jihadi books
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 5 (ANI): The Bangladesh Police have detained four suspected female suicide-squad members, including a mother and two daughters, of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Baraigram of Sirajganj district.
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Pak's statement on Quasem's execution tantamount to interference
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept. 4 (ANI): Protesting against Pakistan's reaction over the execution of condemned 1971 war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali, Bangladesh has said Islamabad's reaction is a direct interference into the country's domestic affairs.
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Bangladesh summons Pak envoy over Mir Quasem's execution reaction
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka (Bangladesh), Sept. 4 (ANI): The Bangladesh Government has summoned acting Pakistani High Commissioner Samina Mehtab this afternoon to lodge a formal protest against a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad over war criminal Mir Quasem Ali's execution.
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Jamaat-e-Islami calls for countrywide shutdown on Monday over Quasem'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Sept.4 (ANI): Following the execution of Mir Quasem Ali, the infamous Al-Badr leader of Chittagong and the "moneyman" of Jamaat-e-Islami, the party today called an eight-hour-long shutdown across the country on Monday, protesting the execution of its leader.
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