Rajshahi

Bangladesh Test cricketer Sabbir Rahman assaults fan during a first-class match

Bangladesh Test batsman Sabbir Rahman will have some explaining to do after he allegedly assaulted a fan during a first-class match of the Rajshahi division's National Cricket League last week. The matter is being investigated.

Dec 30, 2017, 15:54 PM IST

Bangladesh Sufi Muslim killed in suspected Islamist attack: Police

A local Sufi Muslim leader has been found hacked to death in Bangladesh in a suspected Islamist killing, police said Saturday, two weeks after the Islamic State group claimed the murder of a liberal professor in the same northwestern district.

May 07, 2016, 17:06 PM IST

Bangladesh professor hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack

Police said English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was hacked from behind with machetes as he walked to the bus station from his home in the country`s northwestern city of Rajshahi.

Apr 23, 2016, 11:35 AM IST