Bangladeshi

Three Bangladeshis in Big Bash draft

Three Bangladeshi cricketers enlisted their names on the 13th edition of the Big Bash T20 League players draft, with the league scheduled to begin on December 7.

A personal quest to explore the core essence of ‘Bengaliness’

We Bengalis are very much part of a collectivist society, where ‘private’ matters are communal, and everyone can have some opinions about ‘other’s business. We describe that as our own unique way of looking after each other and maintaining ‘social well beings’.

Trafficked To Cambodia: Four victims get their money back

Four out of the five trafficked Bangladeshi youths, who were forced to con people over the internet in Cambodia last year, have got their money back.

By Bengali, I Meant Illegal Bangladeshis: Actor Paresh Rawal at BJP campaign

Well renowned actor Paresh Rawal has landed himself in controversy, following his viral comments about Bengalis, during his campaign in Gujarat, for the ruling BJP.

Types of Bangladeshis you see on a plane

The quintessential quirks of being a Bangladeshi knows no borders.

Azmeri Haque Badhan — an advocate for Bangladeshi saris and jewellery

Azmeri Haque Badhan, one of the most coveted actresses of the Bangladeshi silver screen, has made it a point to wear local saris and jewellery to most international events and promote the rich legacy and craftsmanship of the country to the global audience.

After “crossing the border for love” Bangladeshi woman sent to Indian correctional home

Krishna Mandal, the Bangladeshi woman who swam through the Sundarbans and got married to an Indian before being arrested, was produced before a court in West Bengal’s south 24 Parganas district which sent her to a correctional home.

Swam through Sundarbans for love: Bangladeshi woman arrested in India

A 22-year-old Bangladeshi woman swam through the Sundarbans forest for an hour to cross into India and marry her lover in Kolkata. She ended up in jail after the wedding, Indian media reports today said.

Bangladeshi entrepreneur opens first of its kind agricultural school in Maldives

Bangladeshi entrepreneur Ahmed Mottaki has founded the first of its kind “School of Agriculture” at MI College, an international-level educational institution in the Maldives.

January 31, 2022
January 31, 2022

"Take Out with Lisa Ling" shows the Bangladeshi American Dream

Episode 4 of the HBO Max docu-series features Bangladeshis in the United States.

March 8, 2017
March 8, 2017

Bangladeshi asylum seekers tricked into radiation clean-up

Two Bangladeshi asylum seekers in Japan have cleared up radioactive contamination from one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.

May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016

8 Bangladeshis held in Singapore for plotting attacks back home

Singapore says it has arrested eight Bangladeshi workers, who were planning to stage terror attacks back home. The country’s home ministry releases a kill-list found with them, which include MPs, ministers and media personnel. Meanwhile, in Dhaka, cops arrest five other Bangladeshi nationals, who were repatriated from Singapore after the authorities found that they possessed and/or proliferated jihadi-related materials, or supported the use of armed violence.

March 26, 2016
March 26, 2016

2 Bangladeshi expats picked up in Libya, family says

Two Bangladeshi expatriates are picked up by unidentified people in Tripoli of Libya, family members claimed.

February 24, 2016
February 24, 2016

2 Bangladeshi students killed in Australia car crash

Two Bangladeshi students are killed and another was critically injured in a road crash in Sydney of Australia, reports abc.net.au.

January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016

Arrests shock Bangladeshi community in Singapore

The Bangladeshi community in Singapore has expressed shocked at the news that 27 Bangladeshi nationals who were working there had been arrested for supporting IS, al-Qaeda.

January 13, 2016
January 13, 2016

30 Bangladeshi victims go to European court

Some 30 aggrieved Bangladeshis, who were shot and injured on a strawberry farm in Greece in 2013, filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights in Brussels last week over Greece's alleged violation of human rights.

January 1, 2016
January 1, 2016

Bangladeshi killed in BSF shooting

Members of Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladesh national near the Borogram border in Dinajpur early yesterday.

December 29, 2015
December 29, 2015

150 Bangladeshi maids flee from KSA employers in 7 months

At least 150 Bangladeshi housemaids have escaped from their employers in Saudi Arabia in last seven months, Saudi Gazette reports quoting Makkah daily.

November 28, 2015
November 28, 2015

Carstensz Pyramid hardest of all: Wasfia

“Believe it or not Carstensz Pyramid is the hardest and the most arduous mountain of my life, even harder than Everest," Wasfia says after conquering the mountain.

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