Bangladesh and India should better coordinate the timing of their annual bans on catching hilsa, a fish central to both nations’ diet and culture, to prevent cross-border poaching and protect spawning stocks, officials and experts say.
The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has urged Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to make the interim administration function like a non-partisan caretaker government to ensure a neutral election in February 2026.
Customs officials have seized 60 tonnes of sodium cyclamate, a banned artificial sweetener, from three containers imported by HP International of Dhaka. The shipment, declared as “Soda Ash Light,” arrived from China on August 16 and was detained on September 16 after a tip-off from the National Board of Revenue’s Central Intelligence Cell. Laboratory tests […]
US-Bangla Airlines has expanded its fleet with the addition of a third wide-body Airbus A330-300, which arrived from Madrid and landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Tuesday morning.
A coalition of international human rights organizations has urged Bangladesh’s interim government, led by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, to accelerate legal and institutional reforms ahead of the 2026 elections.
Bangladesh loses 66 lives on its roads each day, making traffic crashes the leading cause of injury-related deaths, according to a new national survey. Each year, 24,233 people die in crashes, nearly four times higher than the official figure of about 5,500, while more than 3 million are injured and 38,000 left permanently disabled.
About 400,000 Bangladeshis live in Italy, according to foreign ministry officials, making the South Asian country one of the largest sources of non-European residents in the nation.
Italy and Bangladesh are negotiating a new “one repatriation, one recruitment” agreement to manage migration, according to officials. The mechanism would grant one legal work visa to a Bangladeshi national for every irregular Bangladeshi migrant repatriated from Italy. Discussions for the new framework were held between Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia […]
A string of three major fires in five days has raised serious concerns about Bangladesh’s emergency preparedness and oversight, with authorities struggling to contain a massive blaze at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s cargo village. The fire, which took seven hours to control, destroyed imported goods, disrupted flights and stranded passengers. Industry groups estimate damages from […]
A massive fire that tore through the import section of Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport cargo village caused losses estimated at more than $1 billion, destroying raw materials for garment exports, pharmaceutical ingredients and telecom equipment in one of Bangladesh’s worst supply chain disasters.
