Bangladesh will launch its Family Card program on Aug. 16 with a Tk 14,500 crore budget, approximately $1.18 billion, covering 41 lakh, or 4.1 million, households during the current fiscal year.
Windows were smashed and petrol bombs were thrown at former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan’s ancestral home in Magura after he joined ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s first public media event since her 2024 removal from power.
Bangladesh has emerged as a rapidly growing market for U.S. soybeans as American exporters seek to diversify sales beyond traditional destinations, according to the U.S. Soybean Export Council.
Bangladesh’s government has drafted legislation to dissolve the Rapid Action Battalion and replace it with a specialized police unit called the Special Response Battalion.
Gas shortages in Chattogram have begun easing after a damaged boiler at a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Maheshkhali resumed operations, officials said Thursday.
Bangladesh’s major television networks and newspapers failed their audiences when they refused to report meaningfully on Sheikh Hasina’s Aug. 5 speech in New Delhi.
Bangladesh will hold its presidential election on Aug. 20, with voting scheduled from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., the Election Commission announced Wednesday.
A large number of Bangladeshi television networks published hundreds of news segments on Aug. 5, but none of the networks provided viewers with meaningful details about Sheikh Hasina’s speech in New Delhi.
Six major Bangladeshi newspapers did not publish reports detailing fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Aug. 5 speech to journalists in New Delhi, a review of their websites found.
Bangladesh expressed “strong displeasure” after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was allowed to speak with media in New Delhi, saying her remarks harmed efforts to rebuild relations with India.
