The richest households in Bangladesh hold a majority of the country’s wealth, with the top 10 percent controlling 58 percent, according to the World Inequality Report 2026. The Paris-based World Inequality Lab said the top one percent alone hold about 24 percent of all assets, while the bottom 50 percent own just 4.7 percent. The […]
Bangladesh’s major political parties welcomed the election schedule announced for February 12, saying it ended uncertainty over the 13th national vote. Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin said a referendum on political reforms would be held the same day. “The announcement has reassured us,” said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. […]
Robin Khuda, the Bangladesh-born founder of Australian data centre company AirTrunk, has been named to Forbes Asia’s 2025 Heroes of Philanthropy list after making a record donation to support education and gender equality in technology.
A real-life incident mirroring the Bengali film Aynabaji, a thriller about a professional imposter drawn into a dangerous web of deceit, has unfolded in Gazipur, a city in central Bangladesh, where a young man was jailed in place of the actual accused in a forest department case.
President Donald Trump’s administration sent another 31 citizens of Bangladesh back to the South Asian country on Monday.
Research findings released by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies found that river erosion has become a major driver of full household migration in coastal areas of Bangladesh, accounting for 27.41 percent of relocations.
Seven fishermen were abducted on Sunday in the Sundarbans after what survivors described as an armed pirate attack in the Malancha River in the Satkhira range. The incident occurred near the Hanskhali, Chelakata, and Hetalbuni canals. Returning fishermen Fozer Ali and Sabuz Mia said ten armed kidnappers surrounded their group while they were catching crabs […]
The Donald Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy places India at the center of the United States’ Indo-Pacific plans, framing New Delhi as a key partner in balancing China’s economic and military ambitions. The document says the United States must “continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India” to strengthen regional security and deepen […]
India’s forced return of Sonali Khatun, a nine-month-pregnant woman wrongly deported to Bangladesh, exposes a startling failure of basic governance.
A pregnant Indian woman who was deported to Bangladesh despite holding Indian documents returned to West Bengal on Friday after a Indian Supreme Court directive.
