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A deadly quake hit Dhaka. Bangladesh still has no authority to enforce its building code.

November 29, 2025

Bangladesh has yet to establish the Bangladesh Building Regulatory Authority, or BBRA, mandated under the 2020 Bangladesh National Building Code, leaving building safety oversight fragmented despite increasing seismic risks. The previous government assigned deputy commissioners to lead district building committees — an approach experts say contradicts the code and has weakened enforcement nationwide.

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U.S. military flight repatriates 39 Bangladeshis after their deportation from America

November 28, 2025

The United States returned 39 Bangladeshi nationals to Dhaka early Friday, bringing the total number repatriated this year to 187. The group arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 5:30 a.m. on a special U.S. military flight, airport officials said. BRAC provided transportation and emergency assistance upon arrival.

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Fakhrul urges Bangladesh’s news media to break free from partisan control amid media crisis

November 28, 2025

Senior BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday urged journalists to break free from political influence, warning that partisanship has damaged Bangladesh’s media.

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She is already on death row. Now ex-Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina is sentenced again over a graft scheme involving land plots, along with her son Sajeeb Wazed and daughter Saima Wazed Putul, who are also given prison sentences.

November 27, 2025

A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years in prison in three cases tied to the Purbachal plot scam.

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Gold worth more than $1.3 million found in Agrani Bank vaults registered to former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina

November 26, 2025

Officials from the Central Intelligence Cell of the National Board of Revenue opened two vaults at Agrani Bank’s Motijheel branch registered to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and recovered 832.51 bhori of gold, equal to about 9.72 kilograms.

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Extreme heat will threaten nearly all of South Asia by 2030. Bangladesh must scale up adaptation to survive.

November 25, 2025

Bangladesh faces mounting climate threats as extreme heat, flooding, and rising coastal salinity put millions at risk, according to a new World Bank report on South Asia’s adaptation challenges.

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Sobhan says Bangladesh is missing out on China and India’s booming markets

November 24, 2025

Bangladesh is missing critical opportunities in the two largest markets on its doorstep, economist Rehman Sobhan warned in a recent speech, arguing that the country’s private sector and policymakers have failed to adjust to a transformed global economic order.

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Mahfuz Anam says Bangladesh cannot compete without a stronger education system. Successive governments, he argues, have ignored the crisis.

November 23, 2025

Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, delivered a stark warning on Bangladesh’s declining education standards at the Bay of Bengal Conversation 2025, organized by the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS). He said the country is jeopardizing its long-term future by failing to invest in knowledge, research and basic educational quality.

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Bangladesh presses India again to hand over Hasina amid tribunal ruling

November 23, 2025

Dhaka has formally asked New Delhi for the second time to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on November 17 for crimes against humanity during last year’s July uprising.

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Sobhan says Bangladesh must pivot east as global economic power shifts

November 23, 2025

Bangladesh must rethink its long-standing Westward economic orientation and align itself with Asia’s rising economic centers, economist Rehman Sobhan said, arguing that the global balance of power has shifted decisively east. Sobhan said Bangladesh’s historic focus on the United States and Europe no longer reflects the realities of global trade, technology or capital flows. “We […]