Labour productivity in Bangladesh was $8.7 per hour in 2025, below Vietnam’s $12.4 and India’s $10.7, General Economics Division of Planning Commission data cited in Bangladesh State of Economy 2025 report showed.
Indian lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to return former Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh during a campaign speech this week, sharply criticizing the government for what he described as political inconsistency in its messaging on migration.
Bangladesh Navy detained 273 people, including 10 suspected members of a trafficking syndicate, as they tried to travel illegally to Malaysia through Bay of Bengal on Saturday night, officials said.
The police detained two men on Sunday for what authorities described as suspicious movement near the Gulshan residence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman.
Kamal Hossain, a key architect of Bangladesh’s constitution and founder of Gono Forum, has been hospitalized in Dhaka after a serious decline in health.
Fuel loading at Unit 1 of Bangladesh’s Rooppur Nuclear Power Project is likely to begin in early February, project officials said. They said trial electricity generation could start between early March and late April.
Bangladesh’s first woman prime minister, Khaleda Zia, was buried on Wednesday with state honors beside her husband, former president Ziaur Rahman, at Zia Udyan in Dhaka.
Chuadanga in western Bangladesh recorded its lowest winter temperature this year, dropping to 8.2 degrees Celsius/46.76 degrees Fahrenheit amid thick fog and chilly winds Wednesday morning.
Preparations are underway to bury former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia beside the grave of former President Ziaur Rahman at Zia Udyan in Sher-E-Bangla Nagar.
Khaleda Zia, chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a three-time former prime minister, died Tuesday, Dec. 30, while being treated at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.
