DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will receive $100 million loan from the World Bank to expand its clean energy activities, a senior government official said on Tuesday. More than three quarters of the loan will be spent on the government's solar energy programme and the rest will be used to buy compact fluorescent lamp bulbs known as CFL bulbs. The government ...

Bangladesh executed five former military officers Thursday for their role in the 1975 massacre of the country's independence leader and several of his relatives and aides at a Dhaka home during a coup, authorities said. The five men, who were all at least in their 60s ...

Five former soldiers convicted in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup will be executed this month, the country's law minister said Wednesday. In November, a five-member Supreme Court jury dismissed the men's appeal to commute their sentence. The same ...

Zaheer Khan sparked a sensational Bangladeshi collapse with four wickets off eight balls as India swept the series with a crushing 10-wicket win in the second and final Test on Wednesday. The left-arm seamer bagged a career-best 7-87 as Bangladesh were bowled out for 312 in their second innings in the opening over after lunch on the penultimate day, leaving ...