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More than three quarters of Bangladeshi women have faced violence from their husbands or intimate partners, according to a 2024 survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations Population Fund. The nationwide study found that 76 percent of women have experienced some form of intimate partner violence, while 49 percent suffered abuse […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced plans to visit Bangladesh in the coming months following a meeting with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus on the sidelines of the World Food Forum in Rome. Lula accepted Yunus’s invitation, saying he hopes to make the trip by February to strengthen bilateral ties and expand cooperation […]

The Bangladesh government has declared a building of the Military Engineer Services (MES) in Dhaka Cantonment a temporary jail to hold 15 serving army officers charged by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). According to a home ministry gazette issued Sunday, MES Building No. 54, north of Bashar Road, was designated a sub-jail under the Prisoners […]

Members of the Manta fishing community, who live on boats along rivers in southern Bangladesh, are struggling to survive after being left out of government food aid during the ongoing 22-day fishing ban. Without access to fishing or rice allocations, many Manta families face severe food insecurity. “We are born on the river, and we […]

Bangladesh’s election authority has pledged to deliver a fully transparent national election as the country prepares to return to civilian rule under an interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin said after a meeting with officials in Chittagong that “nothing will be secret” in the upcoming February 2026 […]