Dhaka University

A Bangladeshi PhD student was shot dead at a gas station where he was working as a clerk in the US state of Louisiana, the media reported on Sunday.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced that her government will construct 560 model mosques and an Islamic university with the Saudi assistance, in an attempt to woo hardline Islamists ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled next month. Speaking at an Islamic clerics rally in Dhaka, Ms Hasina urged the clerics not to be agit...

A renowned Bangladesh photographer said Sunday he has been the victim of "unwanted cruelty" after being sacked over an image of a couple kissing that raised a social media storm in the conservative Muslim-majority country.

The photo - a dreamy scene of two lovers kissing in the monsoon rain - went viral in Bangladesh almost immediately after photojournalist Jibon Ahmed posted it on his Facebook page Monday.

The Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute here has sought approval from the Centre for a collaborative programme with the University of Dhaka, its director said.

Thousands of students across Bangladesh staged protests and sit-ins Monday after clashes at the country's top university left at least 100 people injured.

A Bangladeshi court Wednesday formally exonerated a student at a Canadian university of involvement in a deadly cafe siege, two months after he was arrested and charged over the carnage.

Acting deputy vice chancellor of a private university in Bangladesh, arrested for sheltering Islamists who carried out the country's worst terror attack at a cafe here, has been suspended.

Police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting a property who later attacked a cafe in the city, killing 20 people.

A missing university student has been identified as the suspected terrorist who was killed during an encounter with police after an attack on one of Bangladesh's biggest Eid gatherings in Sholakia, killing four persons.

A University of California, Berkeley sophomore who was among the 20 hostages killed over the weekend by militants in Bangladesh is being remembered as a kind and smart young woman.

Amid the condemnations for last week's tragedy in Dhaka, a story of bravery is being hailed across the world: That of Faraz Hossein, a Bangladeshi who stood by his foreign friends even when he was allowed to go by the seven terrorists who had struck at the Holey Artisan Bakery in the upscale Gulshan area.

Most of the terrorists who attacked Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery on Friday were mostly from well-to-do families and went top schools and universities in Dhaka, Information Broadcasting Minister Hassanul Haq Inna has told NDTV.

One was about to enter business school. Another brought an international outlook to the halls of Berkeley. And the last, while being a U.S. citizen, claimed Dhaka as home.

Suspected Islamists claiming to be the ISIS followers have threatened to kill a Hindu priest of the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka if he continues to preach in "Islamic Bangladesh", prompting authorities to tighten security around the area.

A Bangladeshi PhD student was shot dead at a gas station where he was working as a clerk in the US state of Louisiana, the media reported on Sunday.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today announced that her government will construct 560 model mosques and an Islamic university with the Saudi assistance, in an attempt to woo hardline Islamists ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled next month. Speaking at an Islamic clerics rally in Dhaka, Ms Hasina urged the clerics not to be agit...

A renowned Bangladesh photographer said Sunday he has been the victim of "unwanted cruelty" after being sacked over an image of a couple kissing that raised a social media storm in the conservative Muslim-majority country.

The photo - a dreamy scene of two lovers kissing in the monsoon rain - went viral in Bangladesh almost immediately after photojournalist Jibon Ahmed posted it on his Facebook page Monday.

The Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute here has sought approval from the Centre for a collaborative programme with the University of Dhaka, its director said.

Thousands of students across Bangladesh staged protests and sit-ins Monday after clashes at the country's top university left at least 100 people injured.

A Bangladeshi court Wednesday formally exonerated a student at a Canadian university of involvement in a deadly cafe siege, two months after he was arrested and charged over the carnage.

Acting deputy vice chancellor of a private university in Bangladesh, arrested for sheltering Islamists who carried out the country's worst terror attack at a cafe here, has been suspended.

Police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting a property who later attacked a cafe in the city, killing 20 people.

A missing university student has been identified as the suspected terrorist who was killed during an encounter with police after an attack on one of Bangladesh's biggest Eid gatherings in Sholakia, killing four persons.

A University of California, Berkeley sophomore who was among the 20 hostages killed over the weekend by militants in Bangladesh is being remembered as a kind and smart young woman.

Amid the condemnations for last week's tragedy in Dhaka, a story of bravery is being hailed across the world: That of Faraz Hossein, a Bangladeshi who stood by his foreign friends even when he was allowed to go by the seven terrorists who had struck at the Holey Artisan Bakery in the upscale Gulshan area.

Most of the terrorists who attacked Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery on Friday were mostly from well-to-do families and went top schools and universities in Dhaka, Information Broadcasting Minister Hassanul Haq Inna has told NDTV.

One was about to enter business school. Another brought an international outlook to the halls of Berkeley. And the last, while being a U.S. citizen, claimed Dhaka as home.

Suspected Islamists claiming to be the ISIS followers have threatened to kill a Hindu priest of the Ramakrishna Mission in Dhaka if he continues to preach in "Islamic Bangladesh", prompting authorities to tighten security around the area.