Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee last week held discussions on a wide range of topics including education,...
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19th Mar 2026 | Updated at 11:38pm 19th Mar 2026
Bangladesh’s Tarique Rahman sworn in after historic vote
- 18 Feb 2026
Tarique Rahman and his cabinet ministers took oath, becoming the first elected leaders since the deadly 2024 uprising.Rahman is set to be the first male prime minister in 35 years in Bangladesh, a country of 170 million, while new parliament...
Rising attacks on Hindus spark calls to review Yunus’ Nobel Prize
- 07 Jan 2026
Atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh have reportedly increased, triggering criticism of Muhammad Yunus and renewed questions over his Nobel Peace Prize, amid accusations that he has failed, as Chief Advisor of the interim government, to curb...
Bangladesh police have shot dead 13 drug traffickers and arrested thousands in an aggressive campaign against the surging trade in methamphetamines and other narcotics, officers said
SpaceX successfully launched Bangladesh's first communication satellite, the Bangabandhu Satellite-1, on Friday from the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Executive Director Fahmida Khatun said the Rohingya crisis was putting an adverse effect on Bangladesh's economy, society and its environment
Bangladesh has initiated a "vigorous process" with the UK government to extradite Tarique Rahman, the "fugitive" son of imprisoned former prime minister...
Bangladesh has proposed restructuring of the charter of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to pave way for inclusion of non-Muslim countries like India as an "observer state"
Bangladesh has decided to scrap quota system in government services after thousands of students marched across the country in protest against the controversial policy of setting aside jobs for special groups
Bangladesh’s police recovered the bloodstained body of a prominent Hindu lawyer who went missing last week and arrested four people, including his wife, suspecting their link to the murder
Thousands of students across Bangladesh staged protests and sit-ins on Monday after clashes at the country's top university left at least 100 people injured
A hardline Islamic school in Bangladesh said it had confiscated hundreds of mobile phones and torched them in a bonfire because they were distracting students...
