International Business News - Bangladesh http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A border clash Friday left two Bangladeshi troops dead and one Indian soldier seriously wounded, military officials said. The clash occurred when an Indian border patrol vessel tried to prevent cattle from being smuggled into Bangladesh on a boat, said Ashish Kumar Mitra, the head of India's Border Security Force. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/2-bangladeshi-guards-killed-in-clash.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:16:50 EDT India asked neighboring Bangladesh on Thursday for help in combatting terror following several deadly attacks that New Delhi blamed on Bangladesh-based Islamic militants. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/india-asks-bangladesh-for-help-fighting-militants.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:17:07 EDT Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh's southeastern region are being given food aid after a plague of rats devoured rice crops earlier this year, the United Nations' food agency said Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080713/bangladesh-receives-food-aid-following-rat-plague.htm Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:54:38 EDT Two passenger buses collided head-on Monday in central Bangladesh, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more, a television station said. The two buses crashed in Comilla district, on a busy two-lane highway linking the capital, Dhaka, to the southern port city of Chittagong, the private Bangla Vision network reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/20-killed-in-bangladesh-bus-accident.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:37:15 EDT A baby girl was pulled from the rubble unharmed Sunday after a landslide destroyed her family's home in southern Bangladesh, killing her parents and two older siblings, an official said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/baby-survives-landslide-in-bangladesh.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:49:47 EDT Bangladesh's government raised fuel prices by up to 67 percent Tuesday, adding to the cost of living for Bangladeshis, most of whom live on less than $1 a day. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/bangladesh-raises-fuel-prices.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:27:04 EDT Boeing says the Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered two 737s with purchase rights for two more. The firm order for two planes is worth about $150 million at list prices. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/bangladesh-airline-orders-2-boeing-737s.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:08:49 EDT An aide says Bangladesh's figurehead President Iajuddin Ahmed has been hospitalized with high fever. President Ahmed, 77, was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital late Monday for observation after suffering from a viral fever, Sirajul Islam, Secretary to the President's Office, said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/bangladesh-president-hospitalized.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:50:20 EDT A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world's largest mangrove forest in southwestern Bangladesh. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080621/protected-royal-bengal-tiger-killed-by-villagers.htm Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:17:39 EDT A former Bangladeshi prime minister left for the U.S. on Thursday for medical treatment a day after she was released from jail pending a corruption trial, a party leader said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/69655-bangladesh-ex-pms-release.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/freed-bangladesh-ex-leader-leaves-for-us.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/freed-bangladesh-ex-leader-leaves-for-us.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:29:55 EDT The New York-based Human Rights Watch has criticized Bangladesh's military-backed interim government for alleged wholesale arrests of political activists. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/human-rights-watch-slams-bangladesh-arrests.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:10:00 EDT Bangladesh's military-led security forces said Wednesday they have detained more than 10,000 people in a nationwide anti-crime drive over the past week, but political parties accused the government of targeting their members in a political crackdown. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/bangladesh-police-detain-over-10-000.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:45:09 EDT Bangladesh's Health Ministry says the nation's first human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu has been detected. The Directorate General of Health Services statement says a child was infected by the virus in January. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080522/bangladesh-reports-1st-human-h5n1-case.htm Thu, 22 May 2008 09:18:34 EDT Senior editors and journalists from more than a dozen leading Bangladesh newspapers and television stations have demanded an end to the country's state of emergency and called for greater press freedom. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/bangladesh-editors-journalists-call-for-free-press.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 09:21:19 EDT Senior editors and journalists from more than a dozen leading Bangladesh newspapers and television stations have demanded an end to the country's state of emergency and called for greater press freedom. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/bangladesh-editors-call-for-free-press.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 07:11:22 EDT Two trains collided Wednesday in eastern Bangladesh, killing at least eight people, a railway official said. Bangladesh Railway spokesman Shafiqul Alam Khan said an additional 16 people were injured in the morning accident in Brahmmanbaria district, 50 miles east of the capital, Dhaka. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/train-collision-in-bangladesh-kills-8.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 01:50:39 EDT A crowded ferry sank during a tropical storm in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 36 people and leaving 50 more missing, officials said Tuesday. The death toll from the accident late Monday could rise because some of those missing were feared trapped inside the sunken ferry, said local government administrator Sultan Ahmed. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080513/dozens-die-in-bangladesh-ferry-sinking-during-storm.htm Tue, 13 May 2008 01:01:32 EDT Bangladesh's military-backed government should lift emergency rule to facilitate open elections that it has promised to hold by the end of the year, a State Department official said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45002-bangladesh-us-democracy.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/bush-administration-wants-open-elections-in-bangladesh.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/bush-administration-wants-open-elections-in-bangladesh.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 06:13:13 EDT A Bangladesh court charged former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with corruption Wednesday over contracts awarded to a Canadian oil and gas company in 2001, an investigator said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080507/former-bangladesh-prime-minister-is-charged-with-corruption.htm Wed, 07 May 2008 12:18:39 EDT A speeding bus plunged off a road Saturday in central Bangladesh, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens, a police official said. Rescuers recovered 16 bodies from the wreckage of the bus af... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080419/speeding-bus-plunges-off-road-in-bangladesh-killing-18.htm Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:54:09 EDT