Bangladesh Bank should prioritize empowering strong, competitive private banks capable of expanding across South Asia, rather than directly pursuing a government-backed branch in the Maldives.
Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 16 others, including six former cabinet ministers, over alleged irregularities in toll collection from the Meghna-Gomoti Bridge that investigators say cost the government more than $27 million.
Border Security Force soldiers in eastern India arrested a man attempting to smuggle gold from Bangladesh through the Bangladesh–India border early Saturday, seizing 20 gold biscuits worth about $340,000, officials said. The troops from the BSF’s 32nd Battalion received intelligence that an Indian national from Muslimpara village in West Bengal’s Nadia district planned to bring […]
Bangladesh on Sunday launched its first nationwide typhoid immunization campaign, aiming to vaccinate nearly 50 million children from Oct. 12 to Nov. 13 through the country’s Expanded Programme on Immunization.
At least 23 Pakistani soldiers and an estimated 200 Afghan Taliban fighters were killed in fierce overnight clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, officials from both countries said Sunday, marking one of the deadliest confrontations between the neighbors in recent years. According to Pakistan’s military media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Afghan Taliban and allied […]
Bangladesh is standing at a rare and decisive crossroads in its demographic journey, a moment economists call the “window of opportunity.” As fertility rates fall and life expectancy rises, the country now has more working-age citizens than dependents, creating the potential for rapid and sustained economic growth. But this window, experts warn, is temporary and […]
Renowned Bangladeshi photographer and human rights activist Shahidul Alam returned to Dhaka early Saturday after being released from an Israeli prison. Alam arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 4:45 a.m. on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul and was greeted by family, friends, and colleagues from Drik and Pathshala. Alam had been detained Wednesday […]
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has released a powerful documentary titled “Unfolding The Truth” exposing the systematic and widespread abductions carried out under Bangladesh’s previous regime. The film reveals how victims were taken, where they were held, and who orchestrated the crimes, drawing from recovered evidence and testimonies that piece together a chilling […]
What unfolded along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border overnight was not just another skirmish, it was a tragedy between two nations that share faith, history, and kinship. When Muslim soldiers fire on one another across a line drawn by colonial powers, the entire region bleeds.
Heavy clashes erupted along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late Saturday after Afghan Taliban forces attacked several Pakistani military posts, prompting a fierce response from Islamabad, officials said. Pakistan interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi praised security forces for their “prompt and effective response,” saying Afghan forces’ firing on civilians violated international law. “Afghanistan is being answered with stones […]
