DHAKA (Reuters) – Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday after a grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people.
Thousands of people have marched in Bangladesh’s capital and parts of India to urge Muslim-majority nations to cut ties with India unless it punishes two governing party officials for comments deemed derogatory to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
It was early morning when Achintya Das, a 55-year-old teacher in the city of Cumilla in Bangladesh, was woken by the ringing of his mobile phone. On the other end of the line was a fearful, stricken voice. Come quickly, the local told him, something very grave had happened. A Qur’an had been found in […]
