The Week in Pictures | May 13 19, 2013

Clashes were reported in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong and several other major Bangladeshi cities, the Times of India reports. Activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami party have been hurling stones and handmade bombs at security forces, who were deployed in ...

. Chittagong Bureau He was suffering from diabetes and heart diseases, his former colleague and Director of Chittagong University's Research Centre for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Dr Abul Mansur told this report early yesterday.. The ...

Nawaz Sharief's election for an unprecedented third time as Pakistan's prime minister has been welcomed by the Afghan government. Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating Sharief called upon the new Pakistani government to enhance cooperation in ...

Where are the most pirate-infested waters in the world? CNBC gives the rundown. Like the Caribbean of old, the waters near Somalia used to be the most heavily pirated in the world. Now there's a new king of the pirates that's quickly become a ...

Dhaka: The death toll in the cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' that battered Bangladesh's southwestern coastlines climbed to 48 on Friday as bodies of nine children were pulled out from the Bay of Bengal. The cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' battered the country's ...

(BSS) - The country overnight cleaned up uprooted trees and remnants as the cyclone Mahesen passed over the southern coastlines with a weakened force but left marks of wraths claiming 17 lives and flattening thousands of homes. "The death toll from ...

Shamsuddin Mohammed, Ibn Battuta, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, 1304) to an educated family in Tangier. Shamsuddin Mohammed, Ibn Battuta, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, ...

DHAKA, May 16 (BSS) - International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister Dr Gowher Rizvi today said that the unimplemented issues of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord would be resolved within the tenure of the government. "The Peace ...

Port city halted, thousands of people moved to safety Staff Correspondent A family moves to a safer place in Cox's Bazar town on Wednesday as the people of coastal area have been asked to evacuate when the cyclone, Mahasen, approaches north in the ...