A late-April heat wave is sweeping across parts of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, pushing temperatures to dangerous levels in major cities including New Delhi, Karachi and Dhaka as the region enters its pre-monsoon season.
AM Hasan Nasim should be released, and prime minister Tarique Rahman should make clear that freedom of speech in Bangladesh will not be sacrificed to political sensitivity. Nasim was sent to jail after a Dhaka court rejected a seven-day remand request in a case tied to social media posts and alleged blackmail involving Jatiya Sangsad […]
Content creator AM Hasan Nasim was sent to jail Saturday after a Dhaka court rejected a police request to question him in custody in a cyber case tied to social media posts and alleged blackmail of Jatiya Sangsad chief whip Nurul Islam Moni. Case was filed at Gulshan Police Station by Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist […]
Bangladesh’s Parliament earlier in the month passed a criminal procedure amendment bill requiring authorities to inform a person’s family within 12 hours of an arrest.
The United States has become Bangladesh’s top soybean supplier after private importers increased purchases under a reciprocal trade deal and American prices eased earlier in the year, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Police in Bangladesh arrested a man in Chattogram’s Patiya on Saturday night, accusing him of using AI generated images with top politicians and fake identities to defraud people.
The Supreme Court’s decision reinstating Bangladesh’s caretaker government system may prove consequential for the country’s electoral future. Yet the way the judgment was handled raises troubling questions about judicial practice and institutional discipline.
A sudden hailstorm accompanied by a nor’wester damaged crops and more than 100 houses across several upazilas in Netrakona, Bangladesh, on Saturday night, officials and residents said.
India’s $200 billion IT services industry, the backbone of its current account surplus and a pillar of its economic rise, could face severe disruption by 2028 as artificial intelligence sharply reduces the global demand for outsourced coding, according to a research report released in February.
Law minister Mohammad Asaduzzaman declared today that anyone involved in institutional corruption faces imprisonment.
