Security forces patrolled the quiet streets of six major Bangladesh cities today, enforcing an indefinite curfew imposed by the military-backed government to quell unrest by students demanding an end to emergency rule.

A train ploughed through a bus on a railway crossing in northern Bangladesh on today, killing at least 33 people and injuring many more.

A train ploughed through a bus on a railway crossing in northern Bangladesh on today, killing at least 20 people and injuring 25.

A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded street in northern Bangladesh today, killing at least six people and wounding dozens in an attack police said may have been carried out by a suicide bomber on a bicycle.

At least 80,000 people were stranded in northern Bangladesh after floods triggered by heavy rains swamped dozens of villages.

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains over the weekend claimed two lives and washed away hundreds of flimsy huts, leaving nearly 2,000 people homeless in northern Bangladesh.

Authorities deployed army troops to build temporary shelters for thousands left homeless by two tornadoes that tore through northern Bangladesh, as the death toll rose to 39, officials said today.

Two tornadoes tore through northern Bangladesh, killing at least 28 people, injuring nearly 900 and leaving thousands homeless, officials and news reports said today.

A teacher in northern Bangladesh cut the ears of 17 students with scissors to discipline them.

Deaths from monsoon rains across south Asia this year reached 1,100 today as residents in Bangladesh’s capital endured its worst flooding in six years, wading through sewage and rowing boats on flooded roads.

A RIVER burst its banks and surged through 25 villages while residents slept in northern Bangladesh yesterday, killing 13 - mostly children - as homes, crops and trees were washed away.

A river burst its banks and surged through 25 villages while residents slept in northern Bangladesh today, killing 13 people – mostly children – as homes, crops and trees were washed away.

At least 38 people were killed and hundreds injured when tornadoes tore through northern Bangladesh blowing away thousands of flimsy huts, officials said today.

Two speeding buses collided head-on in northern Bangladesh today, killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens, police said.

Nearly 150,000 people have been stranded in their homes after heavy rains inundated northern Bangladesh, officials said today.

Icy winds from the Himalayas have killed 42 people in South Asia, pushing the death toll from a month of bitter weather to over 1,000.

The death toll from the cinema bombings in northern Bangladesh has risen to 18.

Bombs have exploded in four cinemas in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 200 others.

Three bombs have exploded simultaneously at three cinemas in northern Bangladesh, killing at least three people.

Tropical storms and lightning strikes have killed at least 36 people, injured hundreds and flattened thousands of homes and rice crops in northern Bangladesh.

At least five people have been killed in tropical storms which battered parts of northern Bangladesh, flattening thousands of houses.

At least 25 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured in two days of violent rainstorms in northern Bangladesh.

Two passenger buses collided in northern Bangladesh today, killing at least 33 people and injuring more than 50 passengers.

Ten people are dead after a tornado hit northern Bangladesh.

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have trapped nearly 50,000 people in their villages and damaged hundreds of houses in northern Bangladesh.

Five people, including a mother and her four-year-old child, were killed by lightning during rainstorms in northern Bangladesh, police said today.