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February 11, 2026 1:19 PM
Less than two months after returning from nearly two decades of self‑imposed exile in London, Tarique Rahman could win one of Bangladesh's most pivotal elections and become prime minister, leading the country as his parents once did. If opinion po...
February 11, 2026 12:49 PM
Shafiqur Rahman has long been on the margins of Bangladeshi politics, but his bearded face now appears on posters and billboards across Dhaka, urging voters to elect the country’s first Islamist‑led government in a general election on Thursday. ...
January 28, 2026 9:35 AM
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman on Tuesday questioned Jamaat-e-Islami over its role in the BNP-led four-party alliance government from 2001 to 2006, asking why Jamaat ministers did not resign at the time if the administrati...
January 13, 2026 10:34 AM
A 28-year-old Hindu auto-rickshaw driver, Samir Kumar Das, was brutally murdered in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Bangladesh’s Feni district on Sunday night with assailants fleeing the scene with his vehicle. According to police and local sources, Samir...
January 8, 2026 1:34 PM
A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) affiliated organisation was shot dead, while another man was injured in a shooting incident in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area on Wednesday night, triggering protests and a heavy law-enforcement presence ...
January 6, 2026 9:42 AM
In Bangladesh, a Hindu businessman was shot dead in public by unidentified assailants in Monirampur upazila of Jessore on Monday evening, triggering panic in the area and raising fresh concerns over law and order ahead of the elections. The victim w...
December 30, 2025 12:44 PM
Begum Khaleda Zia’s journey - from being born in undivided India to becoming Bangladesh’s first woman Prime Minister - established her as one of the most influential figures in the country’s politics for more than four decades. Zia, a three-ti...
December 30, 2025 10:24 AM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled demise of former Bangladesh Prime Minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Dhaka. Khaleda, who became Bangladesh's first female PM in 1991 and went on to develop a bit...
December 30, 2025 9:22 AM
Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia died early Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness at the age of 80, her party confirmed. According to a statement issued by the BNP, Khaleda ...
December 23, 2025 1:07 PM
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed deep concern over the recent surge in violence in Bangladesh, stressing that minorities must feel safe in the country, his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said. “We’re very concerne...
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