Security forces arrested Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her home in capital Dhaka today, in a massive operation involving more than 1,000 police and troops.

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 55 other political activists have been charged by police for their alleged roles in the killings of five rivals during riots last year, news reports said.

Unidentified assailants threw at least three bombs in eastern Bangladesh, killing an opposition party activist and wounding a ruling party member, police said today.

An angry mob set fire to a passenger train in central Bangladesh today, injuring at least 20 people.

At least a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured in a series of bomb blasts at an opposition rally in Bangladesh’s capital today, witnesses and news reports said.

A bomb blast at an opposition rally in north-eastern Bangladesh today killed one person and wounding at least 60 others, doctors and police said.

A bomb exploded at an opposition rally in north-eastern Bangladesh today, wounding nearly 40 people.

Riot police today fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who were demonstrating against the repeal of a law requiring public buildings display a portrait of Bangladesh’s founding father.

About 200 people armed with pistols, spears and meat cleavers attacked a village during a five-hour rampage, wounding at least 50 people, including children, police said Saturday.

Authorities have ordered an investigation into the weekend bombing at a ruling party political rally in which at least 22 people were killed.

A bomb has exploded at a political rally of the governing party in Bangladesh, killing at least 13 people.