Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party rallied in the capital on Saturday to show their strength ahead of elections expected next year, as the South Asian nation ...

The incident, HRFB said, undermines citizen security and violates constitutional and international human rights standards ...

Through the Facebook post, Mahfuz called on citizens to support the arrest and prosecution of criminals, but warned against turning entire neighbourhoods into ghettos in the name of security.

Police arrested a member of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the early hours of Sunday while he was allegedly attempting to set fire to a parked bus in the capital's Shyampur area. The ...