Former Bangladesh Prime Minister (PM) Khaleda Zia, the longtime chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a three-time prime minister, died on Tuesday in Dhaka after a prolonged illness. She was 80. In a televised address to the nation, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus announced a three-day state mourning and a one-day general holiday (PICS/AFP, TEXT/PTI and ANI)

Bangladesh held the funeral of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Saturday drawing a large number of people in the capital amid extra-tight security after his death triggered unrest across the country. (Pics/AFP and PTI)