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 […]
Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has urged Hindu citizens to identify themselves first as Bangladeshis rather than as a religious minority, remarks that the Indian Express featured under a headline critics say was misleadingly framed to imply sectarian intent. In an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan, Yunus said his message to community leaders was to […]
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.
