Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has begun his first official overseas visit since taking office, choosing Malaysia as the destination for a diplomatic mission focused on economic growth, labor migration and regional ties.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman used his first visit to Cox’s Bazar since taking office to call for vigilance in protecting democracy, warning that instability could threaten the country’s political and economic progress.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said Bangladesh will gradually reopen closed factories as part of a government push to create jobs and revive industrial activity.
Bangladesh on Saturday inaugurated a riverbank development project in Sylhet valued at about $420 million, aimed at addressing chronic waterlogging and river erosion while improving the city’s landscape.
AM Hasan Nasim should be released, and prime minister Tarique Rahman should make clear that freedom of speech in Bangladesh will not be sacrificed to political sensitivity. Nasim was sent to jail after a Dhaka court rejected a seven-day remand request in a case tied to social media posts and alleged blackmail involving Jatiya Sangsad […]
Khalilur Rahman, a diplomat and economist and former United Nations official, has been appointed foreign minister in Bangladesh’s new cabinet led by Tarique Rahman.
Bangladesh’s interim government led by professor Muhammad Yunus was dissolved through a gazette notification from Cabinet Division, ending Advisory Council that governed during the transition following the ouster of disgraced prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the swearing-in ceremony of its next prime minister. Dhaka’s outreach follows the new BNP-led government’s electoral triumph and signals a regional diplomatic shift.
Kolkata business owners said this week that the confirmed electoral victory of the BNP and Tarique Rahman in Bangladesh has raised expectations of renewed cross-border commerce, according to local Bangladeshi media.
Bangladesh held its parliamentary election on Thursday, resulting in a landslide victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The party’s chairman Tarique Rahman, who is set to become prime minister of the world’s eighth-most populous country, delivered the following victory speech, translated into English:
